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* Have the best [[2009-05-21 49 -123|Geohashing Day]] in the world.
 
* Have the best [[2009-05-21 49 -123|Geohashing Day]] in the world.
 
* Boat across the Squamish River and reach a geohash in the Tantalus Range.
 
* Boat across the Squamish River and reach a geohash in the Tantalus Range.
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* Examine early Date pages and create expedition pages for the people who reported their expeditions only on the Main Page.
  
 
==Geohashing Equipment==
 
==Geohashing Equipment==

Revision as of 19:06, 20 May 2009

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I'm Robyn. I hash on foot, by bicycle and by transit, usually bringing my Hashscot T-Rex with me. I try to avoid going by car, because burning fuel for pointless expeditions is dumb, but exercising for pointless expeditions is the win. I am deeply addicted to geohashing, however, so what began as sometimes stopping off at a geohash in a car while on my way elsewhere, has escalated to sometimes answering the call of distant geohashes too juicy for me to resist, but too far for me to bike before midnight.

When I'm at home in Vancouver, I'll usually try for the nearest hash in Vancouver, in Surrey or across the border to Bellingham. I get over to Victoria from time to time, too. I have good maps locally. I also travel all over North America for work, so you'll see me at strange graticules elsewhere. I might just surprise you some day.

I am also known on the internets as Qov. I'm recognizable as another Internet personality as well, but I can trust you not to blab, right?

Now and Near Future

Eventually

  • Eager to get a globalhash
  • Minesweep home graticule
  • Meet at least one geohasher with a name starting with each letter of the alphabet. I lack B,C,F,I,L,N,O,P,Q,U,V&Z.
  • Have the best Geohashing Day in the world.
  • Boat across the Squamish River and reach a geohash in the Tantalus Range.
  • Examine early Date pages and create expedition pages for the people who reported their expeditions only on the Main Page.

Geohashing Equipment

  • Успех (pronounced Oosp-yekh a.k.a. "Speckles") my 1991 Kuwahara TO2 Supertour 18-speed bicycle
  • An inflatable kayak
  • T-Rex my dinosaur hashscot
  • Yellow Garmin etrex Venture HC GPS
  • Canon Power Shot SD10 digital camera
  • Gorilla mini camera tripod
  • Brunton orienteering compass

Wanted Equipment

  • New bicycle tights
  • Waterproof camera

Statistics

Graticules

  • Hashes Attempted: 89 in 34 different graticules
  • Hashes Achieved: 58 in 28 different graticules (+2 more without proof)
  • Centurion-eligible Saturday Meetups: 10 in 6 different graticules
  • Geohashers met: 23 in 5 different graticules
  • Continents geohashed: 1

Things that have thwarted me

  • Private property : 11
  • Being chicken: 1
  • Body of water: 1
  • Transportation failure: 2
  • Mis-setting the GPS: 1
  • Time constraints: 4
  • Terrain/weather too nasty to continue safely: 7
  • Inability to use a camera: 1
  • No one attended an alternate:2

Never turn down a chance to geohash.

All Geohashes Attempted

Most recent are listed first. Single horizontal lines every ten missions, and double lines every fifty, to facilitate counting. Bold numbers are the success count and bold words indicate an award or consolation prize taken for that attempt. When I get to 100 I'll move them to their own page.

I've decided to count a geohash "successful" if I:

(a) get to within the accuracy figure of the coordinates as shown by my GPS,
(b) have the GPS show a distance remaining of zero,
(c) get to where it is obvious I could reach the geohash, but refrain from trampling crops,
(d) for airhashes, take a readable photo within 10 seconds of each latitude and longitude, or

The one time I thought I would have to invoke option (c), the geohash came to me.











  • See my blog for details on my early geohashing adventures, before I had properly figured out wiki-ing.

Geohashers Met

Alphabetical by username. Date is first meeting at a geohash.

Achievements

I have moved all but my most recently won or updated achievement ribbons to their own page.

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Minesweeper geohash flag.png Minesweeper geohash 7.png Minesweeper geohash flag.png
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Robyn achieved level 7 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement
by visiting coordinates in Bellingham, Washington and 7 of the surrounding graticules.
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Minesweeper geohash flag.png Minesweeper geohash 5.png Minesweeper geohash flag.png
Minesweeper geohash flag.png Minesweeper geohash flag.png Minesweeper geohash flag.png
Robyn achieved level 5 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement
by visiting coordinates in Surrey, British Columbia and 5 of the surrounding graticules.

Template:Virgin graticule

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Robyn earned the XKCD-100 Achievement
by voyaging 675 km to reach the (50, -119) geohash on 2009-05-09.
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Template:Virgin graticule

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Robyn earned the Camping geohash achievement
by camping in a very waterproof tent 937 m the (48, -122) geohash on 2009-05-02, from 15:40 p.m. to after breakfast.
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Robyn earned the Police Geohash Achievement
by being questioned by the Homeland Security Border Patrol while attempting the (48, -122) geohash on 2009-05-02.
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Progress Towards Multihash Achievements

Wiki Stuff

  • Maintaining consistency and organization of the Achievements page, making sure that achievements are well formatted with categories, ribbons and appropriate links.
  • I obsess about every page belonging to its proper categories, and every category belonging to a category, all the way up to the root.
  • I removed the category Europe from a couple of hundred European graticules that were classed in Europe in addition to their country categories.
  • I came to this wiki knowing nothing about wiki, so I sympathize with others and am working on the Help page.
  • My C-key doesn't work all that well, so some of my categories are ategories.
  • In progress: Geohash on Private Property.
  • Started pages Transportation to the Geohash and Games We Play. Keeping an eye out for additions.
  • Making expedition pages and User pages for Ninja geohashers.
  • Conducted project tracking Vancouver geohashes for a month to quantify accessibility issues in Vanouver graticule.
  • Maintaining Template:New on the wiki for Main Page announcements.
  • Generally trying to do things that make the wiki better.
  • Oh, and I boss everyone around, too.
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