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: The back of a parking lot for an apartment building, on Parker St. in the Forest Hill section of Newark, Essex County. | : The back of a parking lot for an apartment building, on Parker St. in the Forest Hill section of Newark, Essex County. | ||
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Revision as of 14:22, 29 March 2010
| Scranton, PA | Newburgh, NY | Danbury, CT |
| Allentown, PA | Newark | New York City |
| Philadelphia, PA | Atlantic City | 39,-73 |
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This page is maintained by Jevanyn. Automatic updates are not desired.
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—Benjamin Franklin
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| “ | The Tollbooth State
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—George Carlin
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| “ | Only the Strong Survive
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—Popular New Jersey T-shirt
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The Newark graticule is at 40 N, -74 W. This may be the most populous graticule in the United States, with a population in the neighborhood of 7 million people. It includes almost the entire northern half of New Jersey, the most densely populated state (Census), as well as Staten Island, western sections of Brooklyn and lower Manhattan in New York, and a part of Pennsylvania northeast of Philadelphia. In addition, other than Raritan Bay, there are no large sections of water.
Thanks to Meteorswarm, we have a Facebook group for the "North Jersey" graticule. Meet-ups can be coordinated here or there.
Contents
Locations
2024-05-18
Coordinates: 40.1728929, -74.0998813
(3/29) In a parking lot two blocks west of the Point Pleasant train station. Reachable. Shame the weather is lousy today.
Retrohash
The geohash for the date in the original comic (May 26, 2005) is reachable, in Mill Brook, Morris County. If you make an attempt, tell us about it here!
Cities in this Graticule
| New Jersey | New York | Pennsylvania |
| Newark | Staten Island | New Hope |
| Jersey City | Lower Manhattan | Levittown |
| New Brunswick | Parts of Brooklyn | Langhorne |
| Trenton |
Local Geohashers
- Madalis
- bjimba
- krip
- trntr
- TorsionalMetric
- Direwulf
- Jevanyn
- LangleyLGLF (When @Rutgers)
- Esteban
- Science Works!
- sve
- Zubenelgenubi
- Mike
- darko
- jimpoz
- RminusQ
- Brandon 20px and his father
- GISninja
- BlastOButter42, but probably only if it's near the city and New York's isn't closer
- AlexF
- Knitting Duck
- Flashbullzeye
- Kyukket
- dieKatze88
Attempted geohashes
- Main page: Category:Meetup in 40 -74
- Monday, March 22: Geo-passing-through.
- Saturday, March 20: Geohashing and a walk in the park.
- Monday, March 8: I was just here, too!
- Thursday, March 4: Jevanyn has driven past the house a dozen times. But can I prove it?
- Tuesday, March 2: Geohashing party of sorts at Friendly's in the Princeton area.
- Sunday, February 28: An easy first geohash for dieKatze88 near Drew University.
- Tuesday, February 22: Veterans Park, Trenton, near the entrance on Klockner Rd. Across from Steinart High School.
- Saturday, February 13: Tried for a meetup at Woodbridge Mall.
- Monday, February 1: A chilly evening geohash, but only two towns from home for Jevanyn.
- Saturday, January 23: Saturday's geohash was a walk in the park, literally!
- Tuesday, January 5: Jevanyn tried for a birthday geohash with his new GPS, but the location was not reachable.
Archived geohashing expeditions for 2008 and 2009.
Links
[Bing Maps] with Bird's Eye view, better idea of scale and finding paths through complicated terrain.
[Zillow] real estate valuation site, to find out if it's private property / a rough neighborhood / both.
[NJ Transit] for public transportation geohashes
And of course [Wikipedia] to find out which township/borough/county a geohash is in :-)
Wanted: a good bike-map website. NJ Bike Map.com is okay but doesn't include a lot of local bike trails.
- Google Maps now has a bike trail layer, which is a good start.
