Difference between revisions of "2011-01-25 50 8"

Latest revision as of 05:20, 9 August 2019

Location

On the driveway of a residential house

Participants

LadyBB

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

LadyBB earned the Ambassador achievement

by obtaining permission to access the (50, 8) geohash on 2011-01-25.

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 == Expedition ==
 === 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 annoying. I tried to ring at #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.
+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 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!!!
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 [[Category:Expeditions with photos]]
 [[Category:Coordinates reached]]
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Tue 25 Jan 2011 in 50,8: 50.0835668, 8.2646827 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox