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| − | [[User:Birdray|Birdray]], who also dragged a friend | + | * [[User:Birdray|Birdray]], who also dragged a friend, |
| + | * Charlie, unintentionally achieving the drag-along achievement. (Mostly it was just fun to have an adventure buddy.) | ||
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| − | I went to pick up | + | I went to pick up Charlie from the bookstore and we went in search of a newspaper. After finding the New York Times at Harris Teeter, we used the Android Geohashing app to map directions to the hashpoint, which was at that point about a mile away. I had my fingers crossed that my phone wouldn't die, as I had somehow fried my charger and was running on about 30% battery before I turned the GPS on. We came to the Y-intersection, parked the car, and started wandering in search of the hashpoint. |
| − | "What does it look like?" | + | "What does it look like?" Charlie asked. |
"I'm not sure, we haven't found it yet!" | "I'm not sure, we haven't found it yet!" | ||
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"Nope, just a set of coordinates." | "Nope, just a set of coordinates." | ||
| − | + | Charlie commented on the likelihood of getting the cops called on us for wandering around cluelessly in a very affluent neighborhood. Charlie had a point. | |
The app lit up about ten feet from the kerb, to which we promptly had to relocate when a car came along. We took pictures, in which I look like a rabid groundhog given that I'm exceptionally prone to red-eye, as it was getting dark, and then headed back to the car. | The app lit up about ten feet from the kerb, to which we promptly had to relocate when a car came along. We took pictures, in which I look like a rabid groundhog given that I'm exceptionally prone to red-eye, as it was getting dark, and then headed back to the car. | ||
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Postscript: I greatly regret not attempting the Speed Racer achievement, but as it was getting dark, we decided to hightail it out. | Postscript: I greatly regret not attempting the Speed Racer achievement, but as it was getting dark, we decided to hightail it out. | ||
| − | Postpostscript: As it looks like the [[2010-07-31_36_-80]] | + | Postpostscript: As it looks like the planned [[2010-07-31_36_-80]] expedition never occurred, and [[User:Oracle989|Oracle989]] did not reach the coordinates for the [[2009-10-04_36_-80]] expedition, I believe this is a virgin graticule achievement. [[User:Sebejias|Sebejias]], [[User:LevinSerra|LevinSerra]], and [[User:Oracle989|Oracle989]], let me know if this is not true! |
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== Photos == | == Photos == | ||
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| − | Image:2012-05-15_36_-80_1.jpg | Really nothing much to see here--a dark residential area--other than my absolutely rabid red-eye, which happens in almost every photo of me. Taken by my friend | + | Image:2012-05-15_36_-80_1.jpg | Really nothing much to see here--a dark residential area--other than my absolutely rabid red-eye, which happens in almost every photo of me. Taken by my friend Charlie. |
Image:2012-05-15_36_-80_2.jpg | A closeup of the coordinates. Also the tell-tale "Your battery is ABOUT TO DIE A HORRIBLE DEATH" red light. | Image:2012-05-15_36_-80_2.jpg | A closeup of the coordinates. Also the tell-tale "Your battery is ABOUT TO DIE A HORRIBLE DEATH" red light. | ||
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Latest revision as of 05:37, 20 March 2024
| Tue 15 May 2012 in 36,-80: 36.0962780, -80.2920972 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox |
Location
Just to one side of a Y-intersection of two roads in the Country Club neighborhoods of Winston-Salem.
Participants
- Birdray, who also dragged a friend,
- Charlie, unintentionally achieving the drag-along achievement. (Mostly it was just fun to have an adventure buddy.)
Plans
I was thrilled to see that the day's hashpoint was not only within two miles of my apartment, but was also on a residential road, i.e. somewhere I could reasonably show up without having to talk my way onto someone's property. We planned to acquire a copy of the day's paper, just to have an old-school timestamp on the expedition. There was also a pre-hash nap planned in, because that's how we roll.
Expedition
I went to pick up Charlie from the bookstore and we went in search of a newspaper. After finding the New York Times at Harris Teeter, we used the Android Geohashing app to map directions to the hashpoint, which was at that point about a mile away. I had my fingers crossed that my phone wouldn't die, as I had somehow fried my charger and was running on about 30% battery before I turned the GPS on. We came to the Y-intersection, parked the car, and started wandering in search of the hashpoint.
"What does it look like?" Charlie asked.
"I'm not sure, we haven't found it yet!"
"Oh! It's... it's not a thing?"
"Nope, just a set of coordinates."
Charlie commented on the likelihood of getting the cops called on us for wandering around cluelessly in a very affluent neighborhood. Charlie had a point.
The app lit up about ten feet from the kerb, to which we promptly had to relocate when a car came along. We took pictures, in which I look like a rabid groundhog given that I'm exceptionally prone to red-eye, as it was getting dark, and then headed back to the car.
Postscript: I greatly regret not attempting the Speed Racer achievement, but as it was getting dark, we decided to hightail it out.
Postpostscript: As it looks like the planned 2010-07-31_36_-80 expedition never occurred, and Oracle989 did not reach the coordinates for the 2009-10-04_36_-80 expedition, I believe this is a virgin graticule achievement. Sebejias, LevinSerra, and Oracle989, let me know if this is not true!
Photos
Really nothing much to see here--a dark residential area--other than my absolutely rabid red-eye, which happens in almost every photo of me. Taken by my friend Charlie.
A closeup of the coordinates. Also the tell-tale "Your battery is ABOUT TO DIE A HORRIBLE DEATH" red light.
Achievements
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Birdray earned the Land geohash achievement
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Birdray earned the Drag-along achievement
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Birdray earned the Graticule Unlocked Achievement
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