Difference between revisions of "2012-04-06 41 -88"

Revision as of 22:23, 7 April 2012

Location

Side of a road in rural Illinois on my way home from St. Louis.

Participants

RocketMac

Plans

When the class I was teaching this week started winding own, I checked for any reachable hashpoints on my drive from [[38,-90|St. Louis] to Milwaukee and found that the 41,-88 graticule would only add less than an hour to my drive and mark off another notch on my Minesweeper badge.

Expedition

Originally I had anticipated being done with class and on the road by 2pm, but due to some technical difficulties and some good solid questions from one of the students, I didn't hit the road until almost 4pm. So by the time I made the hashpoint, it was after 9pm and dark.

From the moment I left 55, I was subjected to a lot of 30-45mph zones and a lot of red light clusters I hit wrong every time. Normally with geohashing, I find these "scenic" detours to be the main point. But after dark, it's just slow going.

Tracklog

Coming Soon

Photos

Farmhouse from the hashpoint
Stupid (Blurry) Grin
GPS Capture

Achievements

RocketMac earned the Land geohash achievement

by reaching the (41, -88) geohash on 2012-04-06.

RocketMac achieved level 6 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement

by visiting coordinates in Schaumburg, Illinois and 6 of the surrounding graticules.

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 == Location ==
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+Side of a road in rural Illinois on my way home from St. Louis.
 == Participants ==
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+* [[User:RocketMac|RocketMac]]
 == Plans ==
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+When the class I was teaching this week started winding own, I checked for any reachable hashpoints on my drive from [[38,-90|St. Louis] to [[42.-88|Milwaukee]] and found that the [[41,-88]] graticule would only add less than an hour to my drive and mark off another notch on my [[Minesweeper Geohash|Minesweeper]] badge.
 == Expedition ==
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+Originally I had anticipated being done with class and on the road by 2pm, but due to some technical difficulties and some good solid questions from one of the students, I didn't hit the road until almost 4pm. So by the time I made the hashpoint, it was after 9pm and dark.
+From the moment I left 55, I was subjected to a lot of 30-45mph zones and a '''lot''' of red light clusters I hit wrong every time. Normally with geohashing, I find these "scenic" detours to be the main point. But after dark, it's just slow going.
 == Tracklog ==
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+<!--My tracklog is available in [http://coldshadow.com/geohashing/2012-04-06.gpx GPX] and [http://coldshadow.com/geohashing/2012-04-06.kmz KMZ] formats.-->
+''Coming Soon''
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+Image:RocketMac 2012-04-06 41 -88 01.jpg | Farmhouse from the hashpoint
+Image:RocketMac 2012-04-06 41 -88 02.jpg | Stupid (Blurry) Grin
+Image:RocketMac 2012-04-06 41 -88 03.jpg | GPS Capture
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+{{land geohash
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+| longitude = -88
+| date = 2012-04-06
+| name = RocketMac
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+| graticule = Schaumburg, Illinois
+| ranknumber = 6
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+| name = RocketMac
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