2016-02-21 42 -85

Sun 21 Feb 2016 in 42,-85: 42.9298868, -85.6156385 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

Newton Street, Grand Rapids, MI

Participants

• Mcbaneg (talk) (George)
• Susanne
• Rebekah

Expedition

Got a Lucky Location, at the edge of a residential street 310 m from our house, on a lucky day, a warm sunny Sunday in February. This one was easy, and we made it a Tron walk as well. The complete loop was almost exactly a mile.

I downloaded GPS Logger but didn't set the logging frequency high enough, and in addition there seemed to be a couple of spurious points a km or so from where we actually went. So I have drawn our Tron loop in Google Maps and posted it.

The occupant of the house immediately east of the hashpoint was out in front cleaning his gutters. We spoke to him and explained that his house was special today. He knew XKCD but had not heard of geohashing, so we encouraged him to check it out.

Photos

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  Proof.

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  G&R at street corner just north of hashpoint, making sure of route.

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  G&R at hashpoint.

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  G&S at hashpoint.

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  Reconstructed tracklog.

Achievements

Mcbaneg, Susanne, and Rebekah earned the Couch Potato Geohash Honorable Mention

by living near the (42, -85) geohash on 2016-02-21.

Mcbaneg, Susanne, and Rebekah earned the Walk geohash Achievement by reaching the (42, -85) geohash on 2016-02-21 on foot, travelling a distance of 1.59 km.

Mcbaneg, Susanne, and Rebekah earned the Tron achievement by reaching and returning from the (42, -85) geohash without crossing their own tracks] on 2016-02-21.