Difference between revisions of "Texel, Netherlands"

Latest revision as of 03:38, 20 March 2024

The Texel graticule is at latitude 53, longitude 4 and contains North Sea, North Sea, North Sea, Wadden Sea and sheep. Within this graticule, there is the island of Texel (De Cocksdorp, De Koog, De Waal, Den Burg, Den Hoorn, Oosterend). It als contains the Vliehors, this is a part of Vlieland which is used as shooting range by planes of the Dutch army.

Since this graticule is mostly sea the hashes happen to be in the sea a lot of times. Landhashes are a rare occurrence with 5 to 10 per year.

Today's Location

Today's location

Notable Dates

Murfie earned the Graticule Unlocked Achievement

by being the first to reach any hashpoint in the (53, 4) graticule, here, on 2012-06-04.

2012-06-04: Murfie visits Texel in the middle of the night and meets a cow.
2012-06-10: Mennoowh sees no cows, just a lot of thorns in the dunes.
2014-03-31: Eupeodes moved to Texel.
2014-09-01: Eupeodes finally got to a hash on Texel, and there were cows.

Meetups

If you plan to go to a geohash, let the rest of us know here.

People

Eupeodes works on Texel, but lives in 52,4

Status before 2014-03-31: Although there is internet available on the island, no people here have heard of geohashing, yet.

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 {{graticule
-    | map = <map lat="53" lon="4" />
+    | lat= 53
-    | nw = [[North Sea 54, 3|North Sea ]]
+   | lon= 4
-    | n  = [[North Sea 54, 4|North Sea ]]
+    | nw = [[North Sea 54, 3|North Sea]]
-    | ne = [[North Sea 54, 5|North Sea ]]
+    | n  = [[North Sea 54, 4|North Sea]]
-    | w  = [[North Sea 53, 3|North Sea ]]
+    | ne = [[North Sea 54, 5|North Sea]]
+    | w  = [[North Sea 53, 3|North Sea]]
     | name = [[Texel, Netherlands|Texel]]
     | e  = [[Leeuwarden, Netherlands|Leeuwarden]]
-    | sw = [[North Sea 52, 3|North Sea ]]
+    | sw = [[North Sea 52, 3|North Sea]]
     | s  = [[Amsterdam, Netherlands|Amsterdam]]
     | se = [[Utrecht, Netherlands|Utrecht]]
 }}
-This graticule is located at [[53,4]]. [http://irc.peeron.com/xkcd/map/map.html?date={{LOCALYEAR}}-{{LOCALMONTH}}-{{LOCALDAY2}}&lat=53&long=4&zoom=9&abs=-1 Today's location]
+The Texel [[graticule]] is at latitude 53, longitude 4 and contains North Sea, North Sea, North Sea, Wadden Sea and sheep.
+Within this graticule, there is the island of Texel (De Cocksdorp, De Koog, De Waal, Den Burg, Den Hoorn, Oosterend). It als contains the Vliehors, this is a part of Vlieland which is used as shooting range by planes of the Dutch army.
+Since this graticule is mostly sea the hashes happen to be in the sea a lot of times. Landhashes are a rare occurrence with 5 to 10 per year.
+== Today's Location ==
+{{Today's location|lat=53|lon=4}}
+== Notable Dates ==
+{{Graticule unlocked | latitude = 53 | longitude = 4 | date = 2012-06-04 | name = [[User:Murfie|Murfie]] }}
+* [[2012-06-04_53_4|2012-06-04]]: Murfie visits Texel in the middle of the night and meets a cow.
+* [[2012-06-10_53_4|2012-06-10]]: Mennoowh sees no cows, just a lot of thorns in the dunes.
+* 2014-03-31: [[User:Eupeodes|Eupeodes]] moved to Texel.
+* [[2014-09-01_53_4|2014-09-01]]: Eupeodes finally got to a hash on Texel, and there were cows.
+== Meetups ==
+If you plan to go to a geohash, let the rest of us know here.
+== People ==
+* [[User:Eupeodes|Eupeodes]] works on Texel, but lives in [[52,4]]
+Status before 2014-03-31: Although there is internet available on the island, no people here have heard of geohashing, yet.
 [[Category:Inactive graticules]]
 [[Category:Netherlands]]

North Sea	North Sea	North Sea
North Sea	Texel	Leeuwarden
North Sea	Amsterdam	Utrecht
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