Difference between revisions of "2024-03-10 49 8"

Latest revision as of 21:16, 24 May 2024

Fun Fact

This date is also known as 2024’s Super Mario (MAR10) Day, so I’m going to also refer to this page as 2024-MAR10 49 8.

Location

Next to the road Am Schloßberg in the settlement of Niedernhausen, Fischbachtal, Hesse, Germany. According to Bing Aerial, there’s some kind of wall next to the hashpoint. (The wall turned out to not be a regular two-sided wall, but instead a one-sided retaining wall, with the hashpoint on the higher, north side of the wall.)

Participants

Green guy! (talk)
Green guy!’s mother (no consent to publish photos of her)
Green guy!’s father (no consent to publish photos of him)

Plans

Drive to Fischbachtal after being done with this Sunday’s church service at CGD
Have lunch at Restaurant DHILLION
Visit the hashpoint
Go on a walk to visit the nearby castle Schloss Lichtenberg
Drive back home

Expedition

As planned, after Sunday church service, my parents and I drove to Restaurant DHILLION in Niedernhausen, Fischbachtal. We had a delightful time there; I ate a delicious Chicken Korma with rice.

After lunch, we visited the hashpoint: We stopped our car in front of a private driveway for a few minutes (there was no room for parking nearby) so I could hop out and quickly visit the hashpoint. A woman came our way, making sure that we didn’t block the driveway with bad intentions. I took the opportunity to guide her to the hashpoint, where I briefly explained geohashing and the Algorithm, but she didn’t really comprehend what I was talking about. Unfortunately, this didn’t earn me any achievements as she was a stranger who isn’t a geohasher; also, she didn’t agree to let her name or photos of her published.

After that, we parked our car next to the Odenwaldidyll camping site to then visit the nearby castle Schloss Lichtenberg and its Bollwerk (bulwark) by foot: It was interesting, but also really exhausting due to the 90 meters of height gain from parking lot to castle and because we aren’t used to these conditions (as we live in the Rhein-Main valley/flatland); also, we could have driven up the castle by car, saving us some of that effort, but I thought it was closer (and easier to reach?) from the camping site. All of us, especially me, were extremely tired after finishing the trip.

Tracklog: Visiting Schloss Lichtenberg

Visiting the Bollwerk happened after visiting the castle.
GPS accuracy: medium
- 20 meters between track points was a bit too unprecise; I increased the precision to 10 meters for future tracklogs.
Markers show all locations where I took photos (I only uploaded the highlights)

Pictures

At Restaurant DHILLON

A really funny “parking forbidden” sign I encountered next to the restaurant (check out the transcription on the image’s page)
Chicken Korma at the restaurant, served in separate containers for self-service

Reaching the hashpoint

Looking south-southwest from our car: hashpoint straight ahead!
Coordinates reached
The hashpoint: a retaining wall
Funny grin

Visiting Schloss Lichtenberg

Shrubtree: a tree with a trimmed shrub at its base
Entering the castle through a hole in the wall
Castle courtyard
Frog perspective of a staircase leading to a door
The castle’s entrance passage, looking in inward direction
Beautiful scenery viewed from the Bollwerk

Achievements

First-time

I earned these for the first time from this geohash.

Green guy! (talk) earned the Two to the N achievement

by reaching 2² hashpoints on 2024-03-10 49 8 and is promoted to Level 2 (Coordinates reached).

Recurring

I already earned these from an earlier geohash, but fulfilled the conditions again on this one.

Green guy! (talk) earned the Land geohash achievement

by reaching the (49, 8) geohash on 2024-03-10.

Unfortunately, I neither got permission to take a photo with the foreign woman I met at the hashpoint, nor to mention her name here. Also, the person is not a geohasher. These circumstances deny me from getting the Meet-up achievement on this expedition, and the Drag-along achievement doesn’t fit either.

@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
-<!-- Title image (optional) -->
+== Fun Fact ==
-[[File:__________.jpg|100px|thumb|left]]
+This date is also known as 2024’s Super Mario (MAR10) Day, so I’m going to also refer to this page as '''2024-MAR10 49 8'''.
+<!-- Title image -->
+[[File:Green guy! 20240310_141852 Hashpoint.jpg|thumb|left]]
 <!-- And DON'T FORGET to add your expedition and the best photo you took to the gallery on the Main Page! We'd love to read your report, but that means we first have to discover it! :) -->
 {{meetup graticule
-| lat={{#explode:{{SUBPAGENAME}}| |1}}
+| lat=49
-| lon={{#explode:{{SUBPAGENAME}}| |2}}
+| lon=8
-| date={{#explode:{{SUBPAGENAME}}| |0}}
+| date=2024-03-10
 }}
 == Location ==
-<!-- 10 words is already sufficient! -->
+Next to the road ''Am Schloßberg'' in the settlement of Niedernhausen, Fischbachtal, Hesse, Germany. According to Bing Aerial, there’s some kind of wall next to the hashpoint. (The wall turned out to not be a regular two-sided wall, but instead a one-sided retaining wall, with the hashpoint on the higher, north side of the wall.)
-Next to the road ''Am Schloßberg'' in the settlement of Niedernhausen, Fischbachtal, Hesse, Germany. According to Bing Aerial, there’s some kind of wall next to the hashpoint.
 == Participants ==
 * [[User:Green guy!|Green guy!]] ([[User talk:Green guy!|talk]])
-<!-- * Manuel (a new friend and fellow of mine from ''<abbr title="Christliche Gemeinde Darmstadt">CGD</abbr>'') -->
 * Green guy!’s mother <small>(no consent to publish photos of her)</small>
 * Green guy!’s father <small>(no consent to publish photos of him)</small>
 == Plans ==
-# Drive to Fischbachtal after being done with this Sunday’s church service at ''<abbr title="Christliche Gemeinde Darmstadt">CGD</abbr>
+# Drive to Fischbachtal after being done with this Sunday’s church service at ''<abbr title="Christliche Gemeinde Darmstadt">CGD</abbr>''
 # Have lunch at ''Restaurant DHILLION''
 # Visit the hashpoint
@@ Line 26: / Line 27: @@
 == Expedition ==
-<!-- length of the text should be something around this length: “Seeing a very easy hashpoint, I drove out to Gresham, parked a block or two away, and strolled over to ground zero. Then I went on a nine-mile run on the nearby Springwater Corridor trail -- the longest run I've managed in several years. I briefly revisited the hashpoint for good measure, then continued to the next mission: buying some blackberry bushes.” -->
+As planned, after Sunday church service, my parents and I drove to ''Restaurant DHILLION'' in Niedernhausen, Fischbachtal. We had a delightful time there; I ate a delicious Chicken Korma with rice.
-Around 12:30 pm, after being done with this Sunday’s church service at ''<abbr title="Christliche Gemeinde Darmstadt">CGD</abbr>'', my parents and I drove geohashing by car with no stopover at home: We took the ''Straße'' ''(<span style="padding-right: 0.2em">B</span>123)'' headed towards _____. Then, we _____.
+After lunch, we visited the hashpoint: We stopped our car in front of a private driveway for a few minutes (there was no room for parking nearby) so I could hop out and quickly visit the hashpoint. A woman came our way, making sure that we didn’t block the driveway with bad intentions. I took the opportunity to guide her to the hashpoint, where I briefly explained geohashing and the [[Algorithm]], but she didn’t really comprehend what I was talking about. Unfortunately, this didn’t earn me any achievements as she was a stranger who isn’t a geohasher; also, she didn’t agree to let her name or photos of her published.
-Because it was noon and we were hungry, we decided to first go to a restaurant before proceeding with the geohashing expedition. We decided on the _____ because it was open at noon, offered ______ and looked promising in general. The restaurant turned out to be ______
+After that, we parked our car next to the ''Odenwaldidyll'' camping site to then visit the nearby castle ''Schloss Lichtenberg'' and its ''Bollwerk'' (bulwark) by foot: It was interesting, but also really exhausting due to the 90 meters of height gain from parking lot to castle and because we aren’t used to these conditions (as we live in the Rhein-Main valley/flatland); also, we could have driven up the castle by car, saving us some of that effort, but I thought it was closer (and easier to reach?) from the camping site. All of us, especially me, were extremely tired after finishing the trip.
-After eating our fill, we went on driving closer to the hashpoint and parked our car on the parking lot next to _____.
+== Tracklog: Visiting ''Schloss Lichtenberg'' ==
+* Visiting the ''Bollwerk'' happened after visiting the castle.
-Starting from the parking lot, we went on a _____ walking route to the hashpoint and back to our car: _____
+* GPS accuracy: medium
+** 20 meters between track points was a bit too unprecise; I increased the precision to 10 meters for future tracklogs.
-== Tracklog ==
+* Markers show all locations where I took photos (I only uploaded the highlights)
-<!-- not required if you have a “coordinates reached” screenshot -->
+{{Tracklog|Green guy!'s MAR10 walk to Schloss Lichtenberg.gpx}}
-<!-- The tracklog shows my _____ walking route (most deviations from tracks and paths are GPS inaccuracies) and all locations where I took photos. (I took a lot of photos because the scenery was so beautiful to me.) -->
-<!-- {{Tracklog|_____.gpx}} -->
 == Pictures ==
-<!-- 10 pictures area already sufficient! -->
+=== At ''Restaurant DHILLON'' ===
-<!-- File:2024-##-## ## ## _____.jpg | Witty Comment -->
 <gallery>
+File:Green guy! 20240310_125419 funny parking forbidden sign EDITED.jpg | A really funny “parking forbidden” sign I encountered next to the restaurant <small>(check out the transcription on the image’s page)</small>
+File:Green guy! 20240310_133345 Chicken Korma at Restaurant DHILLION.jpg | Chicken Korma at the restaurant, served in separate containers for self-service
+</gallery>
+=== Reaching the hashpoint ===
+<gallery>
+File:Green guy! 20240310_141803 Hashpoint from car.jpg | Looking south-southwest from our car: hashpoint straight ahead!
+File:Green guy! 20240310_141846_OruxMaps Coordinates.png | Coordinates reached
+File:Green guy! 20240310_141852 Hashpoint.jpg | The hashpoint: a retaining wall
+File:Green guy! 20240310_141911 Hashpoint grin 1.jpg | Funny grin
+File:Green guy! 20240310_141928 Hashpoint grin 2.jpg
+</gallery>
+=== Visiting ''Schloss Lichtenberg'' ===
+<gallery>
+File:Green guy! 20240310_144550 Shrubtree.jpg | <dfn>Shrubtree</dfn>: a tree with a trimmed shrub at its base
+File:Green guy! 20240310_144752 Gap in the castle wall.jpg | Entering the castle through a hole in the wall
+File:Green guy! 20240310_144907 Castle courtyard.jpg | Castle courtyard
+File:Green guy! 20240310_145830 Frog perspective.jpg | Frog perspective of a staircase leading to a door
+File:Green guy! 20240310_150300 Castle entrance tunnel.jpg | The castle’s entrance passage, looking in inward direction
+File:Green guy! 20240310_151524 View.jpg | Beautiful scenery viewed from the ''Bollwerk''
 </gallery>
@@ Line 52: / Line 69: @@
 I earned these for the first time from this geohash.
 {{#vardefine:ribbonwidth|100%}}
-<!-- {{Two to the N achievement
+{{Two to the N achievement
 | count = 2
-| latitude = {{#explode:{{SUBPAGENAME}}| |1}}
+| latitude = 49
-| longitude = {{#explode:{{SUBPAGENAME}}| |2}}
+| longitude = 8
-| date = {{#explode:{{SUBPAGENAME}}| |0}}
+| date = 2024-03-10
 | name = [[User:Green guy!|Green guy!]] ([[User talk:Green guy!|talk]])
 | reached = true
-}} -->
+}}
 === Recurring ===
 I already earned these from an earlier geohash, but fulfilled the conditions again on this one.
 {{#vardefine:ribbonwidth|100%}}
 <!-- {{OpenStreetMap achievement
-| latitude = {{#explode:{{SUBPAGENAME}}| |1}}
+| latitude = {{subst:title|lat}}
-| longitude = {{#explode:{{SUBPAGENAME}}| |2}}
+| longitude = {{subst:title|lon}}
-| date = {{#explode:{{SUBPAGENAME}}| |0}}
+| date = {{subst:title|date}}
 | OSMlink  = __MAIN_CHANGESET_ID__
 | OSMlink2 = _________
@@ Line 72: / Line 89: @@
 | name = [[User:Green guy!|Green guy!]] ([[User talk:Green guy!|talk]])
 }} -->
-<!-- {{land geohash
+{{land geohash
-| latitude = {{#explode:{{SUBPAGENAME}}| |1}}
+| latitude = 49
-| longitude = {{#explode:{{SUBPAGENAME}}| |2}}
+| longitude = 8
-| date = {{#explode:{{SUBPAGENAME}}| |0}}
+| date = 2024-03-10
 | name = [[User:Green guy!|Green guy!]] ([[User talk:Green guy!|talk]])
-}} -->
+}}
+Unfortunately, I neither got permission to take a photo with the foreign woman I met at the hashpoint, nor to mention her name here. Also, the person is not a geohasher. These circumstances deny me from getting the Meet-up achievement on this expedition, and the Drag-along achievement doesn’t fit either.
 __NOTOC__
+[[Category:Expeditions]]
-<!-- =============== USEFUL CATEGORIES FOLLOW ================
+[[Category:Expeditions with photos]]
-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:Coordinates reached]]
-[[Category:New report]]
+{{location|DE|HE|DA}}
-<!-- ==REQUEST FOR TWITTER BOT== Please leave either the New report or the Expedition planning category in as long as you work on it. This helps the twitter bot a lot with announcing the right outcome at the right moment. -->
-[[Category:Expedition planning]]
-<!-- If all those plans are never acted upon:
-[[Category:Not reached - Did not attempt]] -->
-<!-- [[Category:Expeditions]] -->
-<!-- [[Category:Expeditions with photos]] -->
-<!-- [[Category:Expeditions with videos]] -->
-<!-- [[Category:Expedition without GPS]] -->
-<!-- [[Category:Coordinates reached]] -->
-<!-- [[Category:Coordinates not reached]] -->
-<!-- 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 instead of the actual geohash:
-[[Category:Not reached - Attended alternate location]] -->


Sun 10 Mar 2024 in 49,8: 49.7746552, 8.8130583 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox