User:DanQ

43 / m / 51,-1

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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
• Thursday 9 May 2024 - the dog needed a walk, so we made a successful expedition to a hashpoint near Standlake Allotments
• Tuesday 22 October 2024 - successful expedition up Harcourt Hill (with the dog)
• Sunday 10 November 2024 - Tron lightcycle expedition to and from Barnard Gate via a circuitous route and some roadworks
• Thursday 14 November 2024 - failed expedition to a field near Ducklington
• Friday 22 November 2024 - successful expedition (and graticule unlocking in a previously-unexplored graticule!) to an abandoned pasture near Abbey, County Limerick, Ireland, with his mother.
• Saturday 23 November 2024 - failed expedition to another locked Irish graticule, on account of flood waters washing out all the meaningful roads between their AirBnB and the hashpoint
• Sunday 24 November 2024 - successful expedition deep into a forest on the hillside on the other side of the Suir Valley from Kilsheelan
• Monday 25 November 2024 - successful expedition to a very muddle field East of Claremorris, on the way to new accommodation
• Tuesday 26 November 2024 - failed expedition to a water hashpoint near Clare Island when no charter boat company would help deliver Dan there

Achievements

In reverse order of aquisition (i.e. most-recent first):

Dan Q earned the Graticule Unlocked Achievement by being the first to reach any hashpoint in the (53, -8) graticule, here, on 2024-11-22.

Dan Q earned the Tron achievement by reaching and returning from the (51, -1) geohash without crossing his own tracks on 2024-11-10.

Dan Q earned the OpenStreetMap achievement by contributing to OpenStreetMap based on their expedition to the (51, -1) geohash on 2022-12-05.

Dan Q achieved level 6 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement by visiting coordinates in Swindon, United Kingdom and 6 of the surrounding graticules.

This user earned the Last man standing achievement by being the the only hasher world-wide to go on a geohashing expedition on 2019-01-08.

Dan Q earned the Birthday Geohash Achievement by reaching the (51, -1) geohash on his 38th birthday, 2019-01-08.

Dan Q earned the Hunter gatherer achievement by harvesting blackberries on their expedition to the (52, -1) geohash on 2018-08-22.

Dan Q earned the Consecutive geohash achievement by reaching hash points on 2 consecutive days starting on 2018-08-22.

This user earned the Last man standing achievement by being the the only hasher world-wide to go on a geohashing expedition on 2018-08-22.

This user earned the Midnight Geohash achievement by reaching the (51, -1) geohash on 2018-08-04 in the middle of the night.

This user earned the Drag-along achievement by dragging Ruth (and carrying baby Annabel) to the (51, -1) geohash on 2014-04-21.

This user earned the Walk geohash Achievement by reaching the (51, -1) geohash on 2014-04-21 on foot.

This user earned the Land geohash achievement by reaching the (51, -0) geohash on 2014-02-19.

This user earned the Bicycle geohash achievement by cycling 93km to and from the (51, -0) geohash on 2014-02-19.

Elsewhere

Find me online at:

• DanQ.me - blog and stuff; filter to just geohash logs or just geo* logs (i.e. including geocaching etc.)
• @dan@danq.me on Mastodon
• 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