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* [[2016-01-09 40 -74|January 9]]: [[User:OtherJack|OtherJack]] scales the Palisade cliffs to reach Union City.
 
* [[2016-01-09 40 -74|January 9]]: [[User:OtherJack|OtherJack]] scales the Palisade cliffs to reach Union City.
* [[2016-01-09 40 -74|July 26]]: [[User:OtherJack|OtherJack]] re-scales the Palisade cliffs (at the same spot) to reach West New York, about 200m away from January 9's point.
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* [[2016-01-09 40 -74|July 26]]: [[User:OtherJack|OtherJack]] re-scales the Palisade cliffs (at the same spot) to reach West New York, about 200m away from the previous point.
  
 
Archived geohashing expeditions: [[Newark, New Jersey/2008|2008]] · [[Newark, New Jersey/2009|2009]] · [[Newark, New Jersey/2010|2010]] · [[Newark, New Jersey/2011|2011]] · [[Newark, New Jersey/2012|2012]] · [[Newark, New Jersey/2013|2013]] · [[Newark, New Jersey/2014|2014]] · [[Newark, New Jersey/2015|2015]].
 
Archived geohashing expeditions: [[Newark, New Jersey/2008|2008]] · [[Newark, New Jersey/2009|2009]] · [[Newark, New Jersey/2010|2010]] · [[Newark, New Jersey/2011|2011]] · [[Newark, New Jersey/2012|2012]] · [[Newark, New Jersey/2013|2013]] · [[Newark, New Jersey/2014|2014]] · [[Newark, New Jersey/2015|2015]].

Revision as of 05:39, 27 July 2016

Scranton, PA Newburgh, NY Danbury, CT
Allentown, PA Newark New York City
Philadelphia, PA Atlantic City 39,-73

Today's location: not yet announced

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Our Graticule

The Newark graticule is at 40 N, -74 W. This graticule is among the most populous 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.


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This graticule earned the Mostly Active Graticule achievement
for the month of May 2010 in the category coordinates reached by being the location of 3 successful expeditions.
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This graticule earned the Mostly Active Graticule achievement
for the month of August 2010 in the category total expeditions by being the location of 4 expeditions.
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This graticule earned the Mostly Active Graticule achievement
for the month of December 2013 in the category coordinates reached by being the location of 4 successful expeditions.
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This graticule earned the Mostly Active Graticule achievement
for the month of December 2013 in the category total expeditions by being the location of 5 expeditions.


Quotable quotes

  • A rum keg tapped at both ends.
-- Benjamin Franklin
  • The Tollbooth State
-- George Carlin
  • Only the Strong Survive
-- Popular New Jersey T-shirt

Daily geohash

Twitter

Reachable geohashing locations will be discussed via Twitter: @jevanyn #geohashNJ

Suggested Meetup Locations

Interesting reachable locations will be posted the same day as they come up. The 80%-90% rate of private property discourages me from updating more often.

Geohashers can also receive daily emails with automated Google address lookup through activegeohasher.com.

Meetups are usually worked out between geohashers when an accessible location comes up. Get to know your neighbors :-)

The geohash for the date in the original comic (May 26, 2005) is challenging but 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 Torresdale, Philadelphia*
Jersey City Lower Manhattan New Hope
New Brunswick Parts of Brooklyn Levittown
Trenton   Langhorne

 * - The area, in the northern reaches of Philadelphia, is partially within Newark, NJ graticule.

Active Geohashers

See also: inactive or retired geohashers

Attempted geohashes

This list includes known expeditions from the current year. Previous years are archived (see below). Click here for the automated list.

  • January 9: OtherJack scales the Palisade cliffs to reach Union City.
  • July 26: OtherJack re-scales the Palisade cliffs (at the same spot) to reach West New York, about 200m away from the previous point.

Archived geohashing expeditions: 2008 · 2009 · 2010 · 2011 · 2012 · 2013 · 2014 · 2015.

Links

peeron map

Small Hash Inquiry Tool

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 :-)

Google Maps does this automatically sometimes.

Wanted: a good bike-map website. NJ Bike Map.com is okay but doesn't include a lot of local bike trails.

Google Maps has a bike trail layer, too.