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| − | Visit the hashpoint, get the | + | Visit the hashpoint, get the photos and back to work (~2.2 km away) - easy hash! |
== Expedition == | == Expedition == | ||
| − | Started at 14:30 from work and drove to the address active geohasher pointed out. Meanwhile the drizzle became stronger … very nice. I arrived in the street, parked my car and tried to | + | === Part 1 === |
| + | Started at 14:30 from work and drove to the address [http://activegeohasher.com "active geohasher"] pointed out. Meanwhile the drizzle became stronger … very nice. I arrived in the street, parked my car and tried to find the right coordinates within my mobile phone … without success because the numbers were jumping around all the time - very unnerving. I tried to ring at No 6 because my GPS tool taught me that the point I'm aiming for is probably IN the garage. But nobody was opening. So I gave up and drove back to work. | ||
| − | Afterwards an additional look at Google Maps told me | + | Afterwards an additional look at Google Maps told me that the hashpoint should be one house further to the north-east?!? Maybe I go back there one day with a proper GPS unit and figure out the right point!!! |
So I declare this expedition as failed due to my improper GPS equipment. | So I declare this expedition as failed due to my improper GPS equipment. | ||
| − | == | + | === Part 2 === |
| − | + | It kept bothering me ... so I decided to leave work half an hour earlier than normal on tuesdays and drove to the hashpoint again. | |
| + | And I found the error ... my navigation system was the bug. It brought me (again) to the #6b. But this time I skipped the #6a (where I was searching the coordinates last time) and went straight to the #6. I rang at the door and a nice and friendly woman opened the door. She gave me permission and I went to her driveway ... and to the right coordinates!!!! | ||
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| + | Expedition - succeeded!! | ||
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| + | What did I learn? | ||
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| + | Never trust your satnav without a good check to the paper roadmap ... and ... a technical system is just as intelligent as its user!! | ||
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| + | Image:2011-01-25 50 8 coordinates.jpg | Coordinates reached in the end!! | ||
| + | Image:2011-01-25 50 8 grin_part_2.jpg | the grin | ||
</gallery> | </gallery> | ||
== Achievements == | == Achievements == | ||
{{#vardefine:ribbonwidth|800px}} | {{#vardefine:ribbonwidth|800px}} | ||
| − | + | {{Ambassador geohash | |
| + | | latitude = 50 | ||
| + | | longitude = 8 | ||
| + | | date = 2011-01-25 | ||
| + | | name = LadyBB | ||
| + | }} | ||
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[[Category:Expeditions]] | [[Category:Expeditions]] | ||
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Latest revision as of 05:20, 9 August 2019
| Tue 25 Jan 2011 in 50,8: 50.0835668, 8.2646827 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox |
Location
On the driveway of a residential house
Participants
Plans
Visit the hashpoint, get the photos and back to work (~2.2 km away) - easy hash!
Expedition
Part 1
Started at 14:30 from work and drove to the address "active geohasher" pointed out. Meanwhile the drizzle became stronger … very nice. I arrived in the street, parked my car and tried to find the right coordinates within my mobile phone … without success because the numbers were jumping around all the time - very unnerving. I tried to ring at No 6 because my GPS tool taught me that the point I'm aiming for is probably IN the garage. But nobody was opening. So I gave up and drove back to work.
Afterwards an additional look at Google Maps told me that the hashpoint should be one house further to the north-east?!? Maybe I go back there one day with a proper GPS unit and figure out the right point!!!
So I declare this expedition as failed due to my improper GPS equipment.
Part 2
It kept bothering me ... so I decided to leave work half an hour earlier than normal on tuesdays and drove to the hashpoint again. And I found the error ... my navigation system was the bug. It brought me (again) to the #6b. But this time I skipped the #6a (where I was searching the coordinates last time) and went straight to the #6. I rang at the door and a nice and friendly woman opened the door. She gave me permission and I went to her driveway ... and to the right coordinates!!!!
Expedition - succeeded!!
What did I learn?
Never trust your satnav without a good check to the paper roadmap ... and ... a technical system is just as intelligent as its user!!
Photos
Coordinates reached in the end!!
the grin
Achievements
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LadyBB earned the Ambassador achievement
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