Difference between revisions of "2012-12-26 54 -3"

Revision as of 21:20, 26 December 2012

Location

In a field, near Tytup Hall, North of Dalton-in-Furness.

Participants

Plans

Bag a mountain bike ride in the early part of the day, visit the meet-up point on the way back home to Barrow-in-Furness.

Expedition

The location was near a local minor road, and did not need any formal planning to reach. I had already planned to visit Dalton on my way back to Barrow, so it proved to be a very minor diversion for me.

I was able to park within 60 metres of the geohash. In had considered both the satellite images from google, and the recent rain-fall. Both suggested that if I wanted to stand on the actual point, then I may need rubber boots. Or a small boat. I made a tactical decision to accept a 'near-miss', and the result was that I was only within 23 metres of the hash point.

The Android application did try and tell me that I had made the geohash. I prefer to get within less than 5 metres of the geohash before I will consider it a success. In saying that I do acknowledge that consumer GPS receivers are usually accurate to about 10 metres, depending on the local conditions.

Photos

Auto-photo at the geo-hash.
Droid Geohash app showing my proximity to the geohash point. The location is visible in the background.

Achievements

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-<!-- Add any achievement ribbons you earned below, or remove this section -->
-<!-- =============== USEFUL CATEGORIES FOLLOW ================
-Delete the next line ONLY if you have chosen the appropriate categories below. If you are unsure, don't worry. People will read your report and help you with the classification. -->
-[[Category:New report]]
-<!-- Potential categories. Please include all the ones appropriate to your expedition -->
-<!-- If this is a planning page:
-[[Category:Expedition planning]]
--->
-<!-- An actual expedition:
 [[Category:Expeditions]]
--- and one or more of --
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-[[Category:Expeditions with videos]]
-[[Category:Expedition without GPS]]
--->
-<!-- if you reached your coords:
-[[Category:Coordinates reached]]
---><!-- or if you failed :(
 [[Category:Coordinates not reached]]
--- and a reason --
-When there is a natural obstacle between you and the target:
 [[Category:Not reached - Mother Nature]]
-When there is a man-made obstacle between you and the target:
-[[Category:Not reached - No public access]]
-When you failed get your GPS, car, bike or such to work:
-[[Category:Not reached - Technology]]
-When you went to an alternate location, or decided early on to abort the expedition:
-[[Category:Not reached - Did not attempt]]
-(Don't forget to delete this final close comment marker) -->


Wed 26 Dec 2012 in 54,-3: 54.1741274, -3.1664288 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox