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+ | == Dan Q == | ||
Based near Oxford; in the [[Swindon, United Kingdom|Swindon, UK]] graticule. | Based near Oxford; in the [[Swindon, United Kingdom|Swindon, UK]] graticule. | ||
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== Expeditions == | == Expeditions == | ||
− | * [[2014-02-19 51 -0|Wednesday | + | * [[2014-02-19 51 -0|Wednesday 19 February 2014]] - successful expedition by bike (57.75 mile round trip) to a the geohash in the nearby [[London West, United Kingdom|London West]] graticule, to commemorate the second anniversary of his father's death. |
− | * [[2014-04-21 51 -1|Monday | + | * [[2014-04-21 51 -1|Monday 21 April 2014]] - successful expedition on foot (1.2 mile round trip, including finding some nearby geohashes) to a hashpoint just 300 metres from his house, along with his partner Ruth and her baby Annabel. |
− | * [[2014-07-12 51 -0|Saturday | + | * [[2014-07-12 51 -0|Saturday 12 July 2014]] - successful expedition by car and foot to a geohash that was broadly-speaking sort-of between his house and an interview he'd just been to |
+ | * [[2015-08-22 55 -3|Saturday 22 August 2015]] - failed expedition (actually a completely accidental "near miss"!) while driving South from Edinburgh to Oxford with a coincidental diversion via Lanark, as determined by [https://danq.me/2020/10/09/accidental-geohashing/ retroactive reverse-engineering of Google Takeout data] five years after the fact! | ||
+ | * [[2018-08-04 51 -1|Saturday 4 August 2018]] - successful expedition by bike at midnight to a hashpoint about 2 miles from his house | ||
+ | * [[2018-08-07 51 -1|Tuesday 7 August 2018]] - successful 6.5km expedition by bike (and foot at the very end) to a field South of Oxford after his afternoon's work meeting got cancelled | ||
+ | * [[2018-08-22 52 -1|Wednesday 22 August 2018]] - successful expedition to East Adderbury to a hashpoint in a field of cows | ||
+ | * [[2018-08-23 51 -1|Thursday 23 August 2018]] - cancelled expedition after the hashpoint location was revealed to be entirely in the wrong direction for my intended day's travel | ||
+ | * [[2018-08-23 50 -1|Thursday 23 August 2018]] - successful expedition to replace the cancelled one; this time a hashpoint South one graticule, deep in a forest | ||
+ | * [[2018-10-16 52 -0|Tuesday 16 October 2018]] - successful expedition to a roadside near a windfarm while en route to an exam | ||
+ | * [[2018-11-09 51 -3|Friday 9 November 2018]] - successful expedition to the middle of a field in Somerset as a diversion from a journey from Oxford to Penzance (for [https://danq.me/2018/11/09/challenge-robin-2/ Challenge Robin II]) | ||
+ | * [[2019-01-08 51 -1|Tuesday 8 January 2019]] - successful expedition to the A34 on the way to work to earn a Birthday Achievement (and to hide a geocache!) | ||
+ | * [[2019-05-27 51 -1|Monday 27 May 2019]] - successful expedition to a cul-de-sac in South East Oxford as a break from studying | ||
+ | * [[2019-08-01_51_-1|Thursday 1 August 2019]] - successful expedition by bike to a field near Charlbury Railway Station | ||
+ | * [[2019-11-29_51_-1|Friday 29 November 2019]] - failed expedition to a footpath near Charlbury; stopped by flooding/falling into ooze; this was during the [[Dark Ages]], so it was first [https://danq.me/2019/11/29/geohashing-expedition-2019-11-29-51-1/ documented only on my blog] | ||
+ | * [[2020-02-21 51 -1|Friday 21 February 2020]] - successful expedition to the village of Curbridge as a diversion on the way to a coworking space | ||
+ | * [[2020-02-22 53 -1|Saturday 22 February 2020]] - a drive from Oxford to Preston is made much better by a diversion to the Peak District to climb part-way up a hill in a successful expedition to find a geohash | ||
+ | * [[2020-09-09 51 -1|Wednesday 9 September 2020]] - successful lunchtime expedition to the Vale of White Horse | ||
+ | * [[2012-02-19 51 -1|Friday 19 February 2021]] - successful retrohash to the 2012-02-19 51 -1 hashpoint to commemorate the anniversary of my dad's death | ||
+ | * [[2021-06-26 51 -1|Saturday 26 June 2021]] - failed expedition to woods on Bladon Heath: I forgot my bike lock and so couldn't continue on foot the last kilometre | ||
+ | * [[2021-08-19 51 -1|Thursday 19 August 2021]] - failed expedition to a field near Cote | ||
+ | * [[2021-08-29 54 -2|Sunday 29 August 2021]] - successful expedition to a thorny cutting above the Lancaster Canal while driving my partner's brother to Cumbria | ||
+ | * [[2021-12-22 51 -2|Wednesday 22 December 2021]] - successful expedition to the side of a field at Syde Farm on the East side of Syde | ||
+ | * [[2022-02-01 51 -1|Tuesday 1 February 2022]] - successful expedition to the site of the (under construction) Aurora Solar Power Plant near Eynsham! | ||
+ | * [[2022-02-08 51 -1|Tuesday 8 February 2022]] - successful expedition to a field near Kingston Bagpuize | ||
+ | * [[2022-02-19 52 -2|Saturday 19 February 2022]] - successful first part of a two-day expedition | ||
+ | * [[2022-02-20 52 -1|Sunday 20 February 2022]] - successful second part of a two-day expedition | ||
+ | * [[2022-10-24 51 -1|Monday 24 October 2022]] - successful expedition to Wharf Stream Way, Eynsham | ||
+ | * [[2022-12-02 51 -1|Friday 2 December 2022]] - failed expedition to a hashpoint guarded by a trio of bullocks near Appleton Sports Field | ||
+ | * [[2022-12-05 51 -1|Monday 5 December 2022]] - successful night cycle out to a hashpoint off a bridleway begins Cokethorpe School | ||
+ | * [[2023-01-02 51 -1|Monday 2 January 2023]] - successful damp hike around and then up Muswell Hill with a dog | ||
+ | * [[2023-03-10 51 -1|Friday 10 March 2023]] - successful dog walk around North Leigh Common | ||
+ | * [[2023-07-27 51 -1|Thursday 27 July 2023]] - successful dog walk with a runny nose (me, not the dog) near a school in West Witney while my partner went shopping, which is totally as good as if we were on the Isle of Man celebrating our anniversary right? | ||
+ | * [[2024-02-10 51 -1|Saturday 10 February 2024]] - after a long hiatus, a successful expedition to a muddy field South of Cumnnor | ||
== Achievements == | == Achievements == | ||
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''In reverse order of aquisition (i.e. most-recent first):'' | ''In reverse order of aquisition (i.e. most-recent first):'' | ||
− | {{Minesweeper geohash | graticule = Swindon, United Kingdom | ranknumber = | + | {{#vardefine:ribbonwidth|800px}} |
+ | |||
+ | {{OpenStreetMap achievement | ||
+ | | latitude = 51 | ||
+ | | longitude = -1 | ||
+ | | date = 2022-12-05 | ||
+ | | OSMlink = https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/129776592 | ||
+ | | name = Dan Q | ||
+ | }} | ||
+ | {{Minesweeper geohash | ||
+ | | graticule = Swindon, United Kingdom | ||
+ | | ranknumber = 6 | ||
+ | | nw = true | ||
+ | | n = true | ||
+ | | ne = true | ||
+ | | e = true | ||
+ | | s = true | ||
+ | | w = true | ||
+ | | name = Dan Q | ||
+ | }} | ||
+ | {{Last man standing | ||
+ | | gender = man | ||
+ | | latitude = 51 | ||
+ | | longitude = -1 | ||
+ | | date = 2019-01-08 | ||
+ | }} | ||
+ | {{Birthday geohash | ||
+ | | latitude = 51 | ||
+ | | longitude = -1 | ||
+ | | date = 2019-01-08 | ||
+ | | pronoun = his | ||
+ | | name = Dan Q | ||
+ | | number = 38th | ||
+ | }} | ||
+ | {{consecutive geohash 2 | ||
+ | | count = 2 | ||
+ | | latitude = 52 | ||
+ | | longitude = -1 | ||
+ | | date = 2018-08-22 | ||
+ | | name = Dan Q | ||
+ | }} | ||
+ | |||
+ | {{Last man standing | ||
+ | | latitude = 52 | ||
+ | | longitude = -1 | ||
+ | | date = 2018-08-22 | ||
+ | | gender = man | ||
+ | }} | ||
+ | |||
+ | {{Midnight geohash | ||
+ | | latitude = 51 | ||
+ | | longitude = -1 | ||
+ | | date = 2018-08-04 | ||
+ | }} | ||
+ | |||
+ | {{drag-along | ||
+ | | latitude = 51 | ||
+ | | longitude = -1 | ||
+ | | date = 2014-04-21 | ||
+ | | partner = Ruth (and carrying baby Annabel) | ||
+ | }} | ||
{{walk geohash | {{walk geohash | ||
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| bothways = true | | bothways = true | ||
}} | }} | ||
+ | |||
+ | == Elsewhere == | ||
+ | Find me online at: | ||
+ | |||
+ | * '''[https://danq.me/ DanQ.me]''' - blog and stuff; filter to [https://danq.me/tag/hash-log/ just geohash logs] or [https://danq.me/kind/checkin/ just geo* logs] (i.e. including geocaching etc.) | ||
+ | * '''[https://keybase.io/dq/ Keybase]''' | ||
+ | |||
+ | Contact me via: | ||
+ | |||
+ | * '''[mailto:geohashing@danq.me geohashing@danq.me]''' - good old-fashioned email | ||
+ | * '''[https://danq.me/contact/form/ Contact form]''' - sends me an email; sometimes these go to spam and may take a few days to respond to; sorry |
Revision as of 12:22, 10 February 2024
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Contents
Dan Q
Based near Oxford; in the Swindon, UK graticule.
Expeditions
- Wednesday 19 February 2014 - successful expedition by bike (57.75 mile round trip) to a the geohash in the nearby London West graticule, to commemorate the second anniversary of his father's death.
- Monday 21 April 2014 - successful expedition on foot (1.2 mile round trip, including finding some nearby geohashes) to a hashpoint just 300 metres from his house, along with his partner Ruth and her baby Annabel.
- Saturday 12 July 2014 - successful expedition by car and foot to a geohash that was broadly-speaking sort-of between his house and an interview he'd just been to
- Saturday 22 August 2015 - failed expedition (actually a completely accidental "near miss"!) while driving South from Edinburgh to Oxford with a coincidental diversion via Lanark, as determined by retroactive reverse-engineering of Google Takeout data five years after the fact!
- Saturday 4 August 2018 - successful expedition by bike at midnight to a hashpoint about 2 miles from his house
- Tuesday 7 August 2018 - successful 6.5km expedition by bike (and foot at the very end) to a field South of Oxford after his afternoon's work meeting got cancelled
- Wednesday 22 August 2018 - successful expedition to East Adderbury to a hashpoint in a field of cows
- Thursday 23 August 2018 - cancelled expedition after the hashpoint location was revealed to be entirely in the wrong direction for my intended day's travel
- Thursday 23 August 2018 - successful expedition to replace the cancelled one; this time a hashpoint South one graticule, deep in a forest
- Tuesday 16 October 2018 - successful expedition to a roadside near a windfarm while en route to an exam
- Friday 9 November 2018 - successful expedition to the middle of a field in Somerset as a diversion from a journey from Oxford to Penzance (for Challenge Robin II)
- Tuesday 8 January 2019 - successful expedition to the A34 on the way to work to earn a Birthday Achievement (and to hide a geocache!)
- Monday 27 May 2019 - successful expedition to a cul-de-sac in South East Oxford as a break from studying
- Thursday 1 August 2019 - successful expedition by bike to a field near Charlbury Railway Station
- Friday 29 November 2019 - failed expedition to a footpath near Charlbury; stopped by flooding/falling into ooze; this was during the Dark Ages, so it was first documented only on my blog
- Friday 21 February 2020 - successful expedition to the village of Curbridge as a diversion on the way to a coworking space
- Saturday 22 February 2020 - a drive from Oxford to Preston is made much better by a diversion to the Peak District to climb part-way up a hill in a successful expedition to find a geohash
- Wednesday 9 September 2020 - successful lunchtime expedition to the Vale of White Horse
- Friday 19 February 2021 - successful retrohash to the 2012-02-19 51 -1 hashpoint to commemorate the anniversary of my dad's death
- Saturday 26 June 2021 - failed expedition to woods on Bladon Heath: I forgot my bike lock and so couldn't continue on foot the last kilometre
- Thursday 19 August 2021 - failed expedition to a field near Cote
- Sunday 29 August 2021 - successful expedition to a thorny cutting above the Lancaster Canal while driving my partner's brother to Cumbria
- Wednesday 22 December 2021 - successful expedition to the side of a field at Syde Farm on the East side of Syde
- Tuesday 1 February 2022 - successful expedition to the site of the (under construction) Aurora Solar Power Plant near Eynsham!
- Tuesday 8 February 2022 - successful expedition to a field near Kingston Bagpuize
- Saturday 19 February 2022 - successful first part of a two-day expedition
- Sunday 20 February 2022 - successful second part of a two-day expedition
- Monday 24 October 2022 - successful expedition to Wharf Stream Way, Eynsham
- Friday 2 December 2022 - failed expedition to a hashpoint guarded by a trio of bullocks near Appleton Sports Field
- Monday 5 December 2022 - successful night cycle out to a hashpoint off a bridleway begins Cokethorpe School
- Monday 2 January 2023 - successful damp hike around and then up Muswell Hill with a dog
- Friday 10 March 2023 - successful dog walk around North Leigh Common
- Thursday 27 July 2023 - successful dog walk with a runny nose (me, not the dog) near a school in West Witney while my partner went shopping, which is totally as good as if we were on the Isle of Man celebrating our anniversary right?
- Saturday 10 February 2024 - after a long hiatus, a successful expedition to a muddy field South of Cumnnor
Achievements
In reverse order of aquisition (i.e. most-recent first):
Dan Q earned the OpenStreetMap achievement
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Dan Q achieved level 6 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement
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This user earned the Last man standing achievement
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Dan Q earned the Birthday Geohash Achievement
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Dan Q earned the Consecutive geohash achievement
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This user earned the Last man standing achievement
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This user earned the Midnight Geohash achievement
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This user earned the Drag-along achievement
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This user earned the Walk geohash Achievement
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This user earned the Land geohash achievement
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This user earned the Bicycle geohash achievement
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Elsewhere
Find me online at:
- DanQ.me - blog and stuff; filter to just geohash logs or just geo* logs (i.e. including geocaching etc.)
- Keybase
Contact me via:
- geohashing@danq.me - good old-fashioned email
- Contact form - sends me an email; sometimes these go to spam and may take a few days to respond to; sorry
Categories:
- Geohashers
- Geohashers in their 40s
- Geohashers in 51,-1
- PGP key owners
- OpenStreetMap achievement
- Minesweeper geohash achievement
- Last man standing achievement
- Birthday geohash achievement
- Consecutive geohash achievement
- Midnight geohash achievement
- Drag-along achievement
- Walk geohash achievement
- Land geohash achievement
- Bicycle geohash achievement