San Francisco, California

Bodega Bay, California	Santa Rosa, California	Sacramento, California
–	San Francisco, California	San Jose, California
–	Santa Cruz, California	Salinas, California

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The San Francisco graticule is at latitude 37, longitude -122. It completely encloses San Francisco, Oakland, and Berkeley down to the North part of of Santa Cruz, Scotts Valley, the entire peninnusla, and a lot of ocean/bay. The graticule is about 60% water, making reachable geohashes a little sparser than normal. If today's San Francisco geohash is in the water, you may find the San Jose geohash more to your liking. In addition, there is a large amount of private property in the hills of our graticule, although also a lot of public land and terrific parks/hiking, so it should be interesting hashing, when we can get there. On days when the spot is off-shore but within 1 mile, or in The Bay, Ted suggests that we try to make it, anyway (boats, wind-surfers, whatever), if it can be done, safely.

Notable Dates

• 2008-05-17 37 -122
• 2008-05-23 37 -122 -- Deep ocean. Tried San Jose, but was on private property, behind a keypad-only access gate. (Met some very nice ranchers, though :)
• 2008-05-27 37 -122 -- Southern reaches of Castle Rock State Park, just below a tough-to-reach ridge.

People/Activities

• User:Zigdon - Santa Clara, will try to drive or ride to meetups if they are close enough. If the meetup falls in the sea, the San Jose graticule is often a good alternative.

• User:Avitzur - Berkeley.

• User:Pyron Beta - Sunnyvale. I've suggested using DJIA==0 so we can find a Friday with reachable coordinates.

• Ted - Santa Cruz. will bring [Once Upon A Time] when he comes. He will try to make Saturdays and, in particular, suggests the 2nd Saturday of the month for folks who plan to only attend occasionally. (Perhaps that can be "the official SF-xkcd meetup", or some such.)

• User:hellmitre - San Francisco. Doesn't have a car but if the meetup spot is in the city or near a BART station, he'll try to be there. Could it be possible to decide on a certain Saturday so we get a good number of people to show?

• User:kachunk - Palo Alto. Has car. Prefers to bike.

• User:FunkyTuba - Cupertino/Redwood City. Will probably only go to *very* convenient geohashes, e.g. the point falls within a couple of miles of home or work.