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Revision as of 14:23, 19 October 2009
| Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | Atlantic City | 39,-73 |
| Salisbury, Maryland | Cape May | 38,-73 |
| Eastern Shore, Virginia | 37,-74 | 37,-73 |
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The Cape May, NJ graticule is at 38 N, -74 W. It has very little land area, as it includes only the lower third of Cape May County. It comes within 10 miles of land in Delaware and Maryland as well, and includes part of the route for the Cape May-Lewes Ferry.
It has approximately 25 sq mi of land, one third of which could be considered wetlands, in a graticule that measures 3,735 sq mi. (69.09mi. ^2 * cos 38.5°). So there's a one chance in 150 of a land-based geohash. While this might be a problem for land-lubbers, a fair number of people in the area own boats or know someone who does, so geohashes in Delaware Bay, or a few miles off Cape May or Wildwood are fair game.
Also to our benefit, raptors don't swim well, and aquaraptors haven't been seen any further south than Montauk, NY in ages.
The bad news is, zombies don't drown.
Contents
Users in graticule
Jevanyn spends one or two weeks vacation in the area every year, and a few weekends besides.
Attempted geohashes
- 2008-08-23, 2008-09-02
- Jevanyn took a ride on his uncle's boat around Wildwood island, and cruised right past the hashpoint (north of the 39th parallel), not knowing it was there. The September 2nd hashpoint later landed close to the route.
Towns and other features
- Wildwood, NJ
- Cape May, NJ
- Delaware Bay
- Cape May-Lewes Ferry
- Sunset Beach
- Cape May Lighthouse
Geohashing locations on/near land
- 10/19/09
Behind 192 Lee Lane in Courthouse.
- 10/12/09 (A.C.)
114 Birch Road, in the Villas. Actually in the AC graticule, but at least it's on land.
- 10/2/09
About 3 miles off the beach from Wildwood Villas.
- 9/11/09
a little over 2 miles southwest from Cape May Point. Within a mile of the ferry route.
- 6/5/09
On the beach in Cape May. Really!
- 6/4/09
About a mile west of Town Bank, nearly straight out along the line of Lincoln Blvd. The geohash is in the right graticule, but in the bay to the west of land, this is even more unlikely than striking land itself.
- 4/20/09
Within a quarter mile of Cape May Point.
- 4/16/09
About a mile off Wildwood Beach, straight out from the convention center. (Compare with the 12/25/08 location.)
- 4/14/09
Less than a mile south off Broadway Beach.
- 3/30/09
About a mile due south of the east end of the canal.
- 2/27/09
Land ho! The geohash is on (in? under?) a house on Maryland Avenue in Cape May.
- 1/12/09
Wetlands to the seaward side of the Parkway, between Cresse Ln in Erma and Jones Creek. About 400ft from the road. I don't now if this would count as a land geohash or a water geohash.
