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Based in the [[Swindon, United Kingdom|Swindon, UK]] graticule.
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== Dan Q ==
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Based near Oxford; in the [[Swindon, United Kingdom|Swindon, UK]] graticule.
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== Expeditions ==
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* [[2014-02-19 51 -0|Wednesday 19 February 2014]] - successful expedition by bike (57.75 mile round trip) to a the geohash in the nearby [[London West, United Kingdom|London West]] graticule, to commemorate the second anniversary of his father's death.
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* [[2014-04-21 51 -1|Monday 21 April 2014]] - successful expedition on foot (1.2 mile round trip, including finding some nearby geohashes) to a hashpoint just 300 metres from his house, along with his partner Ruth and her baby Annabel.
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* [[2014-07-12 51 -0|Saturday 12 July 2014]] - successful expedition by car and foot to a geohash that was broadly-speaking sort-of between his house and an interview he'd just been to
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* [[2015-08-22 55 -3|Saturday 22 August 2015]] - failed expedition (actually a completely accidental "near miss"!) while driving South from Edinburgh to Oxford with a coincidental diversion via Lanark, as determined by [https://danq.me/2020/10/09/accidental-geohashing/ retroactive reverse-engineering of Google Takeout data] five years after the fact!
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* [[2018-08-04 51 -1|Saturday 4 August 2018]] - successful expedition by bike at midnight to a hashpoint about 2 miles from his house
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* [[2018-08-07 51 -1|Tuesday 7 August 2018]] - successful 6.5km expedition by bike (and foot at the very end) to a field South of Oxford after his afternoon's work meeting got cancelled
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* [[2018-08-22 52 -1|Wednesday 22 August 2018]] - successful expedition to East Adderbury to a hashpoint in a field of cows
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* [[2018-08-23 51 -1|Thursday 23 August 2018]] - cancelled expedition after the hashpoint location was revealed to be entirely in the wrong direction for my intended day's travel
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* [[2018-08-23 50 -1|Thursday 23 August 2018]] - successful expedition to replace the cancelled one; this time a hashpoint South one graticule, deep in a forest
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* [[2018-10-16 52 -0|Tuesday 16 October 2018]] - successful expedition to a roadside near a windfarm while en route to an exam
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* [[2018-11-09 51 -3|Friday 9 November 2018]] - successful expedition to the middle of a field in Somerset as a diversion from a journey from Oxford to Penzance (for [https://danq.me/2018/11/09/challenge-robin-2/ Challenge Robin II])
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* [[2019-01-08 51 -1|Tuesday 8 January 2019]] - successful expedition to the A34 on the way to work to earn a Birthday Achievement (and to hide a geocache!)
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* [[2019-05-27 51 -1|Monday 27 May 2019]] - successful expedition to a cul-de-sac in South East Oxford as a break from studying
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* [[2019-08-01_51_-1|Thursday 1 August 2019]] - successful expedition by bike to a field near Charlbury Railway Station
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* [[2019-11-29_51_-1|Friday 29 November 2019]] - failed expedition to a footpath near Charlbury; stopped by flooding/falling into ooze; this was during the [[Dark Ages]], so it was first [https://danq.me/2019/11/29/geohashing-expedition-2019-11-29-51-1/ documented only on my blog]
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* [[2020-02-21 51 -1|Friday 21 February 2020]] - successful expedition to the village of Curbridge as a diversion on the way to a coworking space
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* [[2020-02-22 53 -1|Saturday 22 February 2020]] - a drive from Oxford to Preston is made much better by a diversion to the Peak District to climb part-way up a hill in a successful expedition to find a geohash
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* [[2020-09-09 51 -1|Wednesday 9 September 2020]] - successful lunchtime expedition to the Vale of White Horse
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* [[2012-02-19 51 -1|Friday 19 February 2021]] - successful retrohash to the 2012-02-19 51 -1 hashpoint to commemorate the anniversary of my dad's death
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* [[2021-06-26 51 -1|Saturday 26 June 2021]] - failed expedition to woods on Bladon Heath: I forgot my bike lock and so couldn't continue on foot the last kilometre
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* [[2021-08-19 51 -1|Thursday 19 August 2021]] - failed expedition to a field near Cote
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* [[2021-08-29 54 -2|Sunday 29 August 2021]] - successful expedition to a thorny cutting above the Lancaster Canal while driving my partner's brother to Cumbria
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* [[2021-12-22 51 -2|Wednesday 22 December 2021]] - successful expedition to the side of a field at Syde Farm on the East side of Syde
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* [[2022-02-01 51 -1|Tuesday 1 February 2022]] - successful expedition to the site of the (under construction) Aurora Solar Power Plant near Eynsham!
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* [[2022-02-08 51 -1|Tuesday 8 February 2022]] - successful expedition to a field near Kingston Bagpuize
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* [[2022-02-19 52 -2|Saturday 19 February 2022]] - successful first part of a two-day expedition
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* [[2022-02-20 52 -1|Sunday 20 February 2022]] - successful second part of a two-day expedition
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* [[2022-10-24 51 -1|Monday 24 October 2022]] - successful expedition to Wharf Stream Way, Eynsham
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* [[2022-12-02 51 -1|Friday 2 December 2022]] - failed expedition to a hashpoint guarded by a trio of bullocks near Appleton Sports Field
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* [[2022-12-05 51 -1|Monday 5 December 2022]] - successful night cycle out to a hashpoint off a bridleway begins Cokethorpe School
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* [[2023-01-02 51 -1|Monday 2 January 2023]] - successful damp hike around and then up Muswell Hill with a dog
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* [[2023-03-10 51 -1|Friday 10 March 2023]] - successful dog walk around North Leigh Common
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* [[2023-07-27 51 -1|Thursday 27 July 2023]] - successful dog walk with a runny nose (me, not the dog) near a school in West Witney while my partner went shopping, which is totally as good as if we were on the Isle of Man celebrating our anniversary right?
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* [[2024-02-10 51 -1|Saturday 10 February 2024]] - after a long hiatus, a successful expedition to a muddy field South of Cumnnor
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* [[2024-05-09 51 -1|Thursday 9 May 2024]] - the dog needed a walk, so we made a successful expedition to a hashpoint near Standlake Allotments
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* [[2024-10-22 51 -1|Tuesday 22 October 2024]] - successful expedition up Harcourt Hill (with the dog)
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* [[2024-11-10 51 -1|Sunday 10 November 2024]] - Tron lightcycle expedition to and from Barnard Gate via a circuitous route and some roadworks
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* [[2024-11-14 51 -1|Thursday 14 November 2024]] - failed expedition to a field near Ducklington
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== Achievements ==
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''In reverse order of aquisition (i.e. most-recent first):''
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{{Tron
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    | latitude = 51
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    | longitude = -1
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    | date = 2024-11-10
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    | tracklog = https://geohashing.site/images/8/85/Track_2024-11-10_51_-1_HASHING.gpx
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    | possessive = his
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    | name = Dan Q
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}}
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{{OpenStreetMap achievement
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    | latitude = 51
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    | longitude = -1
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    | date = 2022-12-05
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    | OSMlink = https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/129776592
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    | name = Dan Q
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}}
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{{Minesweeper geohash
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    | graticule = Swindon, United Kingdom
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    | ranknumber = 6
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    | nw = true
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    | n = true
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    | ne = true
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    | e = true
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    | s = true
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    | w = true
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    | name = Dan Q
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}}
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{{Last man standing
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    | gender = man
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    | latitude = 51
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    | longitude = -1
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    | date = 2019-01-08
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}}
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{{Birthday geohash
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    | latitude = 51
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    | longitude = -1
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    | date = 2019-01-08
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    | pronoun = his
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    | name = Dan Q
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    | number = 38th
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}}
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{{Hunter gatherer achievement
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    | latitude = 52
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    | longitude = -1
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    | date = 2018-08-22
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    | name = [[User:DanQ|Dan Q]]
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    | food = blackberries
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}}
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{{consecutive geohash 2
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    | count = 2
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    | latitude = 52
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    | longitude = -1
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    | date = 2018-08-22
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    | name = Dan Q
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}}
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{{Last man standing
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    | latitude = 52
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    | longitude = -1
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    | date = 2018-08-22
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    | gender = man
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}}
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{{Midnight geohash
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    | latitude = 51
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    | longitude = -1
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    | date = 2018-08-04
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}}
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{{drag-along
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    | latitude = 51
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    | longitude = -1
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    | date = 2014-04-21
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    | partner = Ruth (and carrying baby Annabel)
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}}
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{{walk geohash
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| latitude = 51
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| longitude = -1
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| date = 2014-04-21
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}}
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{{land geohash
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| latitude = 51
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| longitude = -0
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| date = 2014-02-19
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}}
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{{bicycle geohash
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| latitude = 51
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| longitude = -0
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| date = 2014-02-19
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| distance = 93km
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| bothways = true
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}}
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== Elsewhere ==
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Find me online at:
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* '''[https://danq.me/ DanQ.me]''' - blog and stuff; filter to [https://danq.me/tag/hash-log/ just geohash logs] or [https://danq.me/kind/checkin/ just geo* logs] (i.e. including geocaching etc.)
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* '''[https://m.danq.me/@dan @dan@danq.me on Mastodon]
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* '''[https://keybase.io/dq/ Keybase]'''
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Contact me via:
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* '''[mailto:geohashing@danq.me geohashing@danq.me]''' - good old-fashioned email
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* '''[https://danq.me/contact/form/ Contact form]''' - sends me an email; sometimes these go to spam and may take a few days to respond to; sorry

Latest revision as of 14:38, 14 November 2024

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Dan Q

Based near Oxford; in the Swindon, UK graticule.

Expeditions

Achievements

In reverse order of aquisition (i.e. most-recent first):


Lightcycle.png
 Dan Q earned the Tron achievement
by reaching and returning from the (51, -1) geohash without crossing his own tracks on 2024-11-10.
Osm.png
 Dan Q earned the OpenStreetMap achievement
by contributing to OpenStreetMap based on their expedition to the (51, -1) geohash on 2022-12-05.
Minesweeper geohash flag.png Minesweeper geohash flag.png Minesweeper geohash flag.png
Minesweeper geohash flag.png Minesweeper geohash 6.png Minesweeper geohash flag.png
Minesweeper geohash empty.png Minesweeper geohash flag.png Minesweeper geohash empty.png
Dan Q achieved level 6 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement
by visiting coordinates in Swindon, United Kingdom and 6 of the surrounding graticules.
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 This user earned the Last man standing achievement
by being the the only hasher world-wide to go on a geohashing expedition on 2019-01-08.
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 Dan Q earned the Birthday Geohash Achievement
by reaching the (51, -1) geohash on his 38th birthday, 2019-01-08.
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 Dan Q earned the Hunter gatherer achievement
by harvesting blackberries on their expedition to the (52, -1) geohash on 2018-08-22.
Consecutivegeohash.jpg
 Dan Q earned the Consecutive geohash achievement
by reaching hash points on 2 consecutive days starting on 2018-08-22.
Lastmanstanding.png
 This user earned the Last man standing achievement
by being the the only hasher world-wide to go on a geohashing expedition on 2018-08-22.
Midnightgeohash.png
 This user earned the Midnight Geohash achievement
by reaching the (51, -1) geohash on 2018-08-04 in the middle of the night.
Drag-along.png
 This user earned the Drag-along achievement
by dragging Ruth (and carrying baby Annabel) to the (51, -1) geohash on 2014-04-21.
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 This user earned the Walk geohash Achievement
by reaching the (51, -1) geohash on 2014-04-21 on foot.
Landgeohash.png
 This user earned the Land geohash achievement
by reaching the (51, -0) geohash on 2014-02-19.
Bikegeohash.png
 This user earned the Bicycle geohash achievement
by cycling 93km to and from the (51, -0) geohash on 2014-02-19.

Elsewhere

Find me online at:

Contact me via:

  • geohashing@danq.me - good old-fashioned email
  • Contact form - sends me an email; sometimes these go to spam and may take a few days to respond to; sorry
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