QUEST SYDNEY

Hornsby in Quest Sydney

Hornsby, The Council of the Shire of Hornsby, on Darug and GuriNgai Country. Beth, national parks ranger, stands at Florence Street / Hunter Lane. Hornsby Station on the CCN, T1, T9. 12 bus routes call here. Real streets, real timetable, in a free browser game.

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Florence Street, the Hornsby Mall: the pedestrian mall with the water clock. Recorded in the game.

Who you meet

Beth, national parks ranger, stands at Florence Street / Hunter Lane. "Last big suburb before the bush swallows the line." Find the corner, talk, and take the Hornsby mug for your bag: each is worth points on the QUESTS page.

Getting there

Hornsby Station: Central Coast and Newcastle Line, T1 North Shore and Western Line, T9 Northern Line

12 bus routes call at one of the 102 stops inside the suburb, on the Transport for NSW timetable. Everyone starts in Newtown; Hornsby is a walk or a train ride from there.

The council and the Country

Hornsby is in The Council of the Shire of Hornsby, on Darug and GuriNgai Country. The acknowledgement on the welcome card is the council's own (source). The boundary is the council's; the streets, parks and building footprints are OpenStreetMap, drawn at 25 cm per pixel.

Every suburb, and who is on the corner.

Questions

Where is Hornsby in the game?

Where it is in Sydney: the same boundary the council draws, on the same streets. Everyone starts in Newtown; walk or ride the train to Hornsby and the welcome card tells you when you have arrived.

Who is on the corner in Hornsby?

Beth, national parks ranger, at Florence Street / Hunter Lane. Find them, talk to them and collect the Hornsby mug for your bag; each is worth points. They are a character, not a real resident.

Which trains stop at Hornsby?

Hornsby Station is served by Central Coast and Newcastle Line, T1 North Shore and Western Line, T9 Northern Line. 12 bus routes call at a stop inside the suburb.

Is Hornsby drawn from the real map?

Yes. Every street, park, footpath and building footprint is OpenStreetMap geometry drawn as pixel art at 25 cm per pixel, the boundary is the council's, and the acknowledgement of Country on the welcome card is quoted from The Council of the Shire of Hornsby's own website.

Where in Hornsby is the clip on this page?

Florence Street. It is the game itself, recorded at 10 in the morning on a weekday: the streets, footpaths and shopfronts are OpenStreetMap, the buses are on the Transport for NSW timetable, and the birds, cyclists and people are the game's own.