Difference between revisions of "2009-09-25 49 8"

Latest revision as of 06:00, 8 August 2019

Location

In the middle of a roundabout in Linkenheim.

Participants

Koepfel

Plans

The hashpoint can be easily reached with a 700 meter walk from the light rail stop Linkenheim Rathaus. Important for the midnight geohash, the last train to karlsruhe left at 0:53. I arrived at the stop at 23:45 on the previous day in order to arrive at midnight.

Report

As this hashpoint was easy to reach, I decided to do another midnight geohash. I looked up train connections and left my home at 22:40 and took tram 5 from Rintheim (where I live) to Karlsruhe Marktplatz (Market).. The city was not too crowded, after all it was 23:00 on a weekday night, After waiting 10 minutes, I entered the S11 to Hochstetten, 16 kilometers or 34 minutes later, I arrived at Linkenheim Rathaus (City Hall)

Surprisingly many people got off the train there; I walked along the Kaiserstraße, 700 meters to the Hashpoint, which was located at a roundabout. I arrived there at 23:50 and found the exact spot by 23:57. While searching the spot, the cat walked by, but didn't seem ro be willing to stay until midnight.

As the area was rather poorly lit, I tried to take a few pictures with my camera's flash. At midnight, I screencap'd the GPS, coordinates reached. After that, I placed the xkcd-marker and my hashscot and started documenting them. While I was trying to get a closeup of the marker, the cat came back and walked right in front of the camera.

As I had plenty of time left since the next (and last) train to Karlsruhe went, I stayed at the hashpoint and reported these events in the IRC channel. After that, a somewhat drunk man cycled by and asked my what I was doing. I tried to explain geohashing to him, but he didn't believe me.

Then, I went back to the stop Linkenheim Rathaus. The last train to Karlsruhe would leave at 0:53 (as it was a weekday night, on weekends trains run through the whole night). Tried to take a few photos at the stop, but that didn't work too well. However, wikipedia has a daylight photo of the stop.

Then, at 0:53, the S1 arrived and brought me to Karlsruhe Marktplatz by 1:30, for the first night-tram/-bus meetup, from where I took the S2 home.

23:00 in Karlsruhe
coordinates reached
A cat was there, too.

(more dark and/or blurry pictures)

Koepfel earned the Hashcat achievement

by finding a cat and stopping to pat it near the (49, 8) geohash on 2009-09-25.

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 The hashpoint can be easily reached with a 700 meter walk from the light rail stop Linkenheim Rathaus. Important for the midnight geohash, the last train to karlsruhe left at 0:53. I arrived at the stop at 23:45 on the previous day in order to arrive at midnight.
-== Expeditions ==
+== Report ==
-===[[User:Koepfel|Koepfel]]===
+As this hashpoint was easy to reach, I decided to do another midnight geohash. I looked up train connections and left my home at 22:40 and took tram 5 from Rintheim (where I live) to Karlsruhe Marktplatz (Market).. The city was not too crowded, after all it was 23:00 on a weekday night, After waiting 10 minutes, I entered the S11 to Hochstetten, 16 kilometers or 34 minutes later, I arrived at Linkenheim Rathaus (City Hall)
-Coordinates were reached. A cat was there, too. Full report to follow.
+Surprisingly many people got off the train there; I walked along the Kaiserstraße, 700 meters to the Hashpoint, which was located at a roundabout. I arrived there at 23:50 and found the exact spot by 23:57. While searching the spot, the cat walked by, but didn't seem ro be willing to stay until midnight.
+As the area was rather poorly lit, I tried to take a few pictures with my camera's flash. At midnight, I [http://geohash.koepfel.de/2009-09-25_49_8/pages/page_12.html screencap'd] the GPS, coordinates reached. After that, I placed the xkcd-marker and my hashscot and started documenting them. While I was trying to get a closeup of the marker, the cat came back and walked right in front of the camera.
+As I had plenty of time left since the next (and last) train to Karlsruhe went, I stayed at the hashpoint and reported these events in the IRC channel. After that, a somewhat drunk man cycled by and asked my what I was doing. I tried to explain geohashing to him, but he didn't believe me.
+Then, I went back to the stop Linkenheim Rathaus. The last train to Karlsruhe would leave at 0:53 (as it was a weekday night, on weekends trains run through the whole night). Tried to take a few photos at the stop, but that didn't work too well. However, wikipedia has a [http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:Linkenheim_rathaus.JPG daylight photo] of the stop.
+Then, at 0:53, the S1 arrived and brought me to Karlsruhe Marktplatz by 1:30, for the first night-tram/-bus meetup, from where I took the S2 home.
 <gallery>
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 Image:2009-09-25_49_8-hash.jpg|coordinates reached
 Image:2009-09-25_49_8-hash2.jpg|
-Image:2009-09-25_49_8-I_is_at_ur_hashpoint.jpg|A car was there, too.
+Image:2009-09-25_49_8-I_is_at_ur_hashpoint.jpg|A cat was there, too.
 </gallery>
-[http://geohash.koepfel.de/blahblah/index.html (more dark and/or blurry pictures)]
+[http://geohash.koepfel.de/2009-09-25_49_8/index.html (more dark and/or blurry pictures)]
-{{gratuitous ribbon | color = green | user = Koepfel | icon = Kitty.PNG | latitude = 49 | longitude = 8 | date = 2009-09-25 | achievement = Hashcat Ribbon | description = finding a cat and stopping to pat it at the }}
+{{hashcat | name = Koepfel | latitude = 49 | longitude = 8 | date = 2009-09-25 | image = 2009-09-25_49_8-I_is_at_ur_hashpoint.jpg }}
 [[Category:Expeditions]]
 [[Category:Coordinates reached]]
 [[Category:Expeditions with photos]]
+{{location|DE|BW|KA}}


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