Talk:Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Two Graticules

Hooray, a page for Pittsburgh!

Perhaps we could choose the most convenient of the two points for Saturdays.

West Graticule (lon -80.xxx): Includes West End, Airport/Moon/Coraopolis area, most of the Beaver Valley, North WV Panhandle, and Youngstown. Mostly land, easy to reach by interstate. High likelihood of a point in the middle of nowhere. (For instance, today's location is well past Steubenville.)

East Graticule (lon -79.xxx): Includes much of Pittsburgh, Monroeville, Greensburg, and part of Indiana County. This would usually be more convenient for most of the region, but also covers some of the less desirable East End neighborhoods and suburbs.

North/South Pittsburgh and Butler are pretty much split.

As for me, I'm on summer break and have nothing better to do, so I may join once in a while. I live in the North Hills area, right on the line. 66.212.135.123 03:46, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

I'm taking a summer class and do have better things to be doing... but it's so enticing I can't help myself. Tim P 04:18, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

What if the main Pittsburgh page just links to the (not yet created) "East Pittsburgh" and "West Pittsburgh" pages... and then each Saturday everyone can chose to go to whichever seems the closer/better/more-feasible location? --Cahlroisse 06:05, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

I think we could increase turnout by having everyone agree to one location. I'm not sure how many xkcd'ers live in the area, and how many of those would be willing to do something like this. There may be more than I expect, in which case it wouldn't matter. However, I would be surprised if more than two or three show up to each location.

Perhaps as a general rule, we could tentatively suggest using the coordinate which has longitude between -79.5 and -80.5? And if it falls right on x.5, we'll have someone "official" flip a coin! Tim P 22:42, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Addendum to that, if the above happens to, say, fall in a river (unlikely, but possible), we could then use collective judgment and head to the other one. Tim P 22:43, 22 May 2008 (UTC)