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| − | The Frederick, Maryland [http://wiki.xkcd.com/geohashing/Graticule graticule] is at [http://irc.peeron.com/xkcd/map/map.html?date=2008-05-&lat=39&long=-77&zoom=10&abs=1 latitude 39, longitude -77]. It contains Frederick, Hagerstown, Chambersburg, and Gettysburg with two interstate highways and many major roadways and with a mountain range cutting approximately down the middle of the graticule. It also contains many of the northern suburbs of Washington, DC along the I-270 corridor. It is one of | + | The Frederick, Maryland [http://wiki.xkcd.com/geohashing/Graticule graticule] is at [http://irc.peeron.com/xkcd/map/map.html?date=2008-05-&lat=39&long=-77&zoom=10&abs=1 latitude 39, longitude -77]. It contains Frederick, Hagerstown, Chambersburg, and Gettysburg with two interstate highways and many major roadways and with a mountain range cutting approximately down the middle of the graticule. It also contains many of the northern suburbs of Washington, DC along the I-270 corridor. It is one of the few graticules to span 4 US states. It contains portions of Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania. |
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Today's Location: [Frederick, MD]
The Frederick, Maryland graticule is at latitude 39, longitude -77. It contains Frederick, Hagerstown, Chambersburg, and Gettysburg with two interstate highways and many major roadways and with a mountain range cutting approximately down the middle of the graticule. It also contains many of the northern suburbs of Washington, DC along the I-270 corridor. It is one of the few graticules to span 4 US states. It contains portions of Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania.
Local Geohashers
- Jordan and Jake from Gaitherburg are down to experiment.
- Jessica would love to visit a geohash if any occur in the northern Pennsylvania area of this graticule.
- Jesse
- Brian lives & works in this graticule (and has never -cached/-hashed before) but is just as likely to visit Balto & NoVa hashes.
- Dan lives in the very bottom of this graticule, and will be splitting his time between this graticule and the Western DC graticule, depending on proximity.
- Kyle lives in this area, and is likely to attend.
- Becky
- Derek is always up for a drive, and may see what this is all about one of these days.
- Jon lives here and will be trying to bike to locations if he feels up for it.
- Jordan is in Hagerstown, and will do what he can.
- Lauren is in Silver Spring, and would love to explore.
- Andrew would be glad to come to a geohash, if there's one nearby (Hagerstown).
- Samuel lives in New Windsor, works in Westminster, and would love to come to one.
- TheWoodenRadio is in Columbia, close to the eastern edge of this area.
- Mike lives & works in the Frederick/Ft. Detrick area, and will eventually have time to participate.
- Jon E. lives in Silver Spring, and may be up for a meetup if any hashes occur closer to DC.
- Shawn is south central of this graticule and wants to do a meetup at some point.
- Frumious lives just south of this graticule near IAD and may show up occasionally if there's a hash nearby
- Slipknot McGee lives in Frederick.
- Jim would enjoy a good weekend meetup, if it were close to Frederick (and he had time).
- Nathan lives in Ashburn, and will most likely attend whichever point in whichever graticule is closest, due to lack of motor-assisted transportation methods.
- David and Karen are in Hagerstown, and sincerely plan to get around to going on one of these things soon.
- Katie lives in the Baltimore graticule, but will attend Frederick geohashes when convenient.
Also see the Frederick Geohash Facebook group.
Daily Locations
2008-08-16 39.335135°, -77.612177° - At the edge of a field near Brunswick, MD. Katie and Justin showed up.
2008-08-09 39.091382°, -77.058595° - Next to the parking lot of a Moose Lodge. Chuck and a adventurous family of four (forgot name) showed up. In woods very close to a house ruin.
2008-07-16: 39.458701°, -77.438995° - Near the corner of Yellow Springs Road and Christopher's Crossing on the north side of Frederick (great park and ice cream shop nearby).
2008-06-28: 39.65811°, -77.365635° - Coordinates located just south of Emmitsburg MD along Rt 15 in a field.
2008-06-21: 39.979317°, -77.613963° - Coordinates located at another farm near Green Village and Scotland in PA.
2008-06-16: 39.401592°, -77.189482° On Ridgeline Drive, near Mt Airy. It was raining when I was there. TheWoodenRadio - mike
2008-06-14: 39.806746°, -77.038887° Changed to 39.80550301, -77.04019904, along Centennial Road on the outskirts of Hanover.
2008-06-07: 39.501784°, -77.114371° - Coordinates located at a farm between Westminister and Route 40.
2008-05-31 39, -77 - Again, likely the best location for the DC Metro area. The point lies in a wooded area a few hundred feet from the Potomac. Dan will be at the end of River Park Ln at 4:00 (tennis court is probably private).
2008-05-24 39 -77 - Saturday's best location for the DC metro area lies in a subdivision in Leesburg, VA. Seems to be in a fair-sized complex of row-houses.
2008-05-22: 39.972874°, -77.238697° Coordinates located near Bendersville, PA.
2008-05-21: 39.179467°, -77.861537° Coordinates located along the Shenandoah River near Charlestown, WV.
