User:Hamblingreen

Hello!

I hail from Portland, Oregon, but am attending school in Rexburg, Idaho at the moment. I love roller skating, learning, and geohashing.

I've reached 8 hashpoints
I've attempted 10 expeditions
I've reached hashpoints in 4 graticules
I've unlocked 1 graticule

A Big List Of Attempts

10. 2023-09-30 43 -111 -- Rexburg, ID. Success!

Hamblingreen earned the Graticule Unlocked Achievement

by being the first to reach any hashpoint in the (43, -111) graticule, here, on 2023-09-30.

This user earned the Midnight Geohash achievement

by reaching the (43, -111) geohash on 2023-09-30 in the middle of the night.

Hamblingreen earned the Walk geohash Achievement

by reaching the (43, -111) geohash on 2023-09-30 on foot.

9. 2023-07-22 45 -121 -- Warm Springs Reservation, OR. Success!

8. 2023-07-09 45 -121 -- West of Carson, WA. Success!

7. 2023-07-02 45 -122 -- Near Spangler Hill, Canby, OR. Success!

6. 2023-06-11 45 -122 -- Jones Creek Trail, Camas, WA. Success!

5. 2022-10-14 45 -122 -- SE Mall Street, Portland, OR. Success!

Hamblingreen earned the Speed racer achievement

by passing through the (45, -122) geohash on 2022-10-14 at the maximum legal speed.

Hamblingreen earned the Multihash Achievement

by reaching the 2022-10-14 45 -123 and 2022-10-14 45 -122 geohashes on 2022-10-14.

4. 2022-10-14 45 -123 -- Next to Wilson River Highway, outside Tillamook, OR. Success!

3. 2022-09-18 45 -122 -- Heron Lakes Golf Course in Kenton, Portland, OR. Success!

Hamblingreen earned the Drag-along achievement

by dragging his parents to the (45, -122) geohash on 2022-09-18.

Hamlingreen earned the Golf Geohash Achievement

by reaching the (45, -122) geohash on 2022-09-18.

Hamblingreen earned the Formal attire achievement

by looking good at the (45, -122) geohash on 2022-09-18.

Hamblingreen earned the Land geohash achievement

by reaching the (45, -122) geohash on 2022-09-18.

2. 2022-09-04 46 -122 -- A deforested area north of Castle Rock, WA. Thwarted!

Hamblingreen (talk) earned the Two to the N achievement

by attempting to reach 2¹ hashpoints on 2022-09-04 46 -122 and is promoted to Level 1 (Expeditions).

1. 2022-08-28 45 -122 -- A Random Farm On Sauvie Island. Thwarted!

Hamblingreen (talk) earned the No trespassing consolation prize

by almost reaching the (45, -122) geohash on 2022-08-28.

People As Crazy As I Am

My Parents, keepers of the car. I drag them along to as many of these Expeditions as I can ever since they warmed up to the idea of geohashing.
Hashscot Wanted, still searching for that special something.

My Backpack

Water!
Snacks
My Pinephone
Charger & portable battery
Pinetime Smart Watch
A printed Crox poster for the target hashpoint.
A nail to tack the poster to a tree ~~or window~~
Sunscreen
Bug Spray
Hat
Binoculars
A Sharpie
Compass

Mepo Integration

Mepo is "a fast, simple, hackable OSM map viewer for mobile and desktop Linux." It also happens to be my maps app of choice. Due to it's scriptable nature, I naturally wanted to integrate geohashing into my map solution to make geohashing on my Pinephone as seamless as possible. Also, as someone newer to bash scripting this was an interesting excercise in creating an implementation from scratch. I bring to you mepo_geohash.sh, a simple 30W compliant script that opens Mepo to the detected graticule's hashpoint of the day. By moving the map and calling the script again, you can get the hashpoint for the graticule you moved to. You can view the script at this mailing list, or just view it below.

 GRATICULE_LAT=$(awk '/^prefset_n lat/{print $NF}' $XDG_CACHE_HOME/mepo/savestate | sed 's/\.[^[:blank:]]*//')
 GRATICULE_LON=$(awk '/^prefset_n lon/{print $NF}' $XDG_CACHE_HOME/mepo/savestate | sed 's/\.[^[:blank:]]*//')
 DATE=$(date +%Y-%m-)$(date +%d)
 if (($GRATICULE_LON > -30)); then
   DATE=$(($DATE-1))
 fi
 HASH=$DATE-$(curl -s http://geo.crox.net/djia/$DATE)
 LAT=$(echo -n $HASH | md5sum | tr -d '-' | tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]' | cut -b 1-16 )
 LON=$(echo -n $HASH | md5sum | tr -d '-' | tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]' | cut -b 17-32)
 LAT=$GRATICULE_LAT$(echo "ibase=16; 0.$LAT" | bc | cut -b 1-5)
 LON=$GRATICULE_LON$(echo "ibase=16; 0.$LON" | bc | cut -b 1-5)
 echo "pin_add 7 0 $LAT $LON geohash;" | mepo -i

Geohashing Quote List

Someone is bound to say something funny when taken out of context on every expedition, so I'm extending the quote list tradition to geohashing. Enjoy!

"No, geohashing has nothing to do with hash"
"We should start charging Hamblingreen for the gas on his failed expeditions"
"I think we managed to get away without too much staring"
"Oh, that was stinging nettle"
"Pedal to the metal, mom!"
"Let's hope they're not shooting at us"
"Get in the car, that's a German Shepard"
"Are you tricking us into a Geohash thing?"
"Look at the bright side, no bobcats this time"

Achievements