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This achievement can be attained only when the place where you work is exactly under the coordinates of a particular day. This is incredibly lucky, and the chance of this happening to you is the area of your workplace divided by the area of the quadrangle you're in. Assuming a sphere of radius R (Earth is approximately 6,370,000m), θ = the absolute value of your graticule's latitude in degrees, and H = the size of your workplace in square metres, then the probability P is represented by the following formula:
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This ribbon works for the full achievement or the honourable mention.
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This achievement can be attained only when the place where you work is exactly under the coordinates of a particular day. This is incredibly lucky, and the chance of this happening to you is the area of your workplace divided by the area of the [[graticule]] you're in. Assuming a sphere of radius R (Earth is approximately 6,370,000m), θ = the absolute value of your graticule's latitude in degrees, and H = the size of your workplace in square metres, then the probability P is represented by the following formula:
  
 
<center>P&nbsp;=&nbsp;H&nbsp;/&nbsp;(&nbsp;[&pi;R<sup>2</sup>&nbsp;/&nbsp;180]&nbsp;&middot;&nbsp;[sin(&theta;+1)&nbsp;-&nbsp;sin(&theta;)]&nbsp;)</center>
 
<center>P&nbsp;=&nbsp;H&nbsp;/&nbsp;(&nbsp;[&pi;R<sup>2</sup>&nbsp;/&nbsp;180]&nbsp;&middot;&nbsp;[sin(&theta;+1)&nbsp;-&nbsp;sin(&theta;)]&nbsp;)</center>
 
A typical cube dweller in [[Denver, Colorado]] (latitude 39&deg;) has a chance of around one in 4,240,000. The same office drone in [[Vardø, Norway]] (latitude 70&deg;) has a chance of around one in 1,840,000.
 
A typical cube dweller in [[Denver, Colorado]] (latitude 39&deg;) has a chance of around one in 4,240,000. The same office drone in [[Vardø, Norway]] (latitude 70&deg;) has a chance of around one in 1,840,000.
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Qualification:
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* For the workplace to count it needs to be a place you physically attended for the purpose of work on the day of the geohash (day off - too bad), with standard GPS photo proof or equivalent
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* If you have multiple workplaces on the day, any can count
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* If your workplace is mobile (line marking vehicle, ship at sea, etc) it can still count if it's working at the time of passing the days coordinates
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* Travel between workplaces doesn't count.
  
 
If this does happen to you, you are required to throw a mad-keen office party at a day's notice.
 
If this does happen to you, you are required to throw a mad-keen office party at a day's notice.
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This is one of those things that probably won't ever happen, but <em>how cool would it be if it did?</em>.
 
This is one of those things that probably won't ever happen, but <em>how cool would it be if it did?</em>.
  
Question: What about for students? At our school?
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==Winners==
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<del>As of July 24th, nobody has won this yet.</del>
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Okay, I'm going to go for the win! I am claiming [[2009-08-30 51 -1]] to be within 6 metres of my place of work! I have photographic evidence of me at work, with the geohash point in sight, from 4 months prior to the geohash. I went to work, ran some Cucumber features (to actually do some work, thankfully they all passed!) and threw the obligatory mad-keen party to which 3 other people came!
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'''Update:''' we can now provide [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgtyWTJQDqI video evidence] and a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPELFSFAZlk 30-second video montage] in celebration of the cubicle geohash!
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Somebody might contest my win, because the geohash was not actually in the building. However, it was just outside, and I do sometimes work outside. It was at least on our land, between our office and car park. And you know, our office is very small!
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Somebody could still get an even better cubicle geohash, in which case I'll happily pass over the title, but I'd like to be reigning champion for now, if that's okay! [[User:Sermoa|--sermoa]] 23:11, 30 August 2009 (UTC)
  
==Winners==
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{{cubicle geohash
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    | latitude = 51
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    | longitude = -1
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    | date = 2009-08-30
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    | name = [[User:Sermoa|Sermoa]]
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    | image = Working-at-the-geohash.png
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}}
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{{gratuitous ribbon
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    | color = #55aaee
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    | icon = Birthday.PNG
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    | latitude = 51
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    | longitude = -1
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    | date = 2009-08-30
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    | achievement = Party geohash
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    | description = throwing a mad-keen party at the
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    | name = [[User:Sermoa|Sermoa]], [[User:Macronencer|Macronencer]], [[User:Mapaholic|Mapaholic]] and [[User:DavidMiller|DavidMiller]]
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    | image = 2009-08-30_51_-1_Macronencer_02.jpg
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}}
  
<em>Nobody has won this yet, be the first!</em>
 
  
==Honorable Mentions==
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===2024===
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[[User:Dolphintreasure|Dolphintreasure]] appears to have won this with the [[2024-02-15 41 -88]] point falling in the maintenance area of the building she works in. No word on whether a party occurred or not.
  
Even if the coordinates aren't in your office, you can get an honorable mention if you work within 1km (a 20 minute walk) of the coordinates. While this is 1,400 times more likely to happen than the coordinates being in your workplace, it's still a long shot.
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==Honourable Mentions==
  
Also, if the coordinates are in your office, but you have the day off (ie. it's a sunday or christmas or random day off), you'll get an honorable mention if you do show up at work.
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Even if the coordinates aren't in your office, you can get an honourable mention if you work within 1km (a 15 minute walk) of the coordinates and reach the coordinates on the appropriate day or make a reasonable attempt to do so. The workplace needs to qualify as above. While this is 1,400 times more likely to happen than the coordinates being in your workplace, it's still a long shot. If you work within 3km, you may award yourself with the almost honourable mention.
  
<em>Nobody has won this yet, be the first!</em>
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* [[User:smartaleq|smartaleq]] for [[2008-09-27 33 -118]], a distance of 150 feet.
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* [[User:Joannac|Joanna]] for [[2009-02-23 -35 149]], <1k away from where she works, according to google maps.
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* [[User:Felix Dance|Felix Dance]] for [[2009-05-25 -37 144]], a distance of 500m from his construction site.
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* [[User:Donks169|donks169]] for [[2009-10-12 50 -1]], <1km from his school.
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* [[User:Reinhard|Reinhard]] for [[2010-04-12 50 11]], 268 m north of his working place.
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* [[User:NWoodruff|NWoodruff]] for [[2011-06-14 34 -84]], 0.756391 km west of his office building.
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* [[User:Mampfred|Mampfred]] for [[2013-08-21 53 -1]], 400 meters from the office building he's working in at the time.
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* [[User:Jens|Jens]] and [[User:Paintedhell|Juja]] for [[2013-09-13 50 11]], about 620 meters from their office building.
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* [[User:Oisín|Oisín]] at 316 meters and [[User:Danatar|Danatar]] at 990 meters from their respective workplaces for [[2014-11-13 51 13]].
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* [[User:Blauwe_BIC|Blauwe BIC]] for [[2015-11-10 52 4]], 348 meters north-west of his office building.
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* [[User:Rafaelalves|Rafael]] for [[2016-03-30 -15 -47]], 995 meters north-east of his office building.
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* [[User:Fippe|Fippe]] for [[2016-11-14 52 9]], 800 meters from his university.
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* [[User:Eupeodes|Eupeodes]] for [[2019-01-11 53 4]], ~570 meters of his office (and ~420 meters from his home).
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* [[User:Danatar|Danatar]] for [[2020-03-28 51 13]], on company property, 90 meters from the building and 120 meters from the room he mostly works in.
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* [[User:srs0|srs0]] for [[2020-10-19 46 6]], within the CERN LHC and SPS rings, exactly 1.0km from his office and 0.6km from the ATLAS Control Room (where he has also worked in the past).
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* [[User:Mckaysalisbury|McKay]] ([[User talk:Mckaysalisbury|talk]]) for [[2020-12-03 40 -111]], 800 meters from his (work from home due to COVID) "cubicle" (home office).
  
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=== Almost honourable mentions ===
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* [[User:Virgletati|Virgletati]] for [[2008-06-30 41 -88]]
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* [[User:lyx|lyx]] for [[2008-08-22 59 10]]
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* Danatar's mother for driving [[User:Danatar|him]] to [[2008-10-22 49 8]], which is 1.5 km from her workplace.
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* [[User:the_ru|the ru]] for [[2009-01-15 67 20]]
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* [[User:Benjw|Benjw]] for [[2009-04-03 52 0]], a mere 40m over a kilometre from his central Cambridge office.
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* [[User:Zb|zb]]: 2009-06-07 and -08: [[2009-06-07 47 10|Here]] and [[2009-06-08 48 10|there]], ca. 2 km.
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* [[User:Jiml|Jim]] for [[2009-06-10 45 -122]], about 2.6 km from his office.
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* [[User:Dvdllr|Dvdllr]] for [[2010-03-01 40 -89]], 1.1 km from his cubicle's coordinates in a nearby office building.
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* [[User:Bishop Wash|Bishop Wash]] for [[2010-05-25 35 -106]], about 1.7 km from his office.
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* [[User:Michi|Michi]] for [[2010-07-02 50 10]], exactly 1812.35 meters from his office. (coordinates not reached)
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* [[User:Trane|Mark]] for [[2010-07-06 44 -92]], just 1.7260 km from his cubicle, give or take 100 m for indoor GPS accuracy. (coordinates reached via Hobbit expedition)
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* [[User:Greenslime|Greenslime]] for [[2010-07-20 -36 174]] being 2.8 km from her cubicle
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* [[User:Jiml|Jim]] for [[2009-07-13 45 -122]], about 2 km from his office.
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* [[User:Jiml|Jim]] for [[2010-07-27 45 -122]], shy of 3 km from his office.
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* [[User:Ziemek|Ziemek]] for [[2013-01-25 52 20]], about 2,2 km from his workplace.
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* [[User:Pedalpusher|Pedalpusher]] for [[2016-12-14 42 -78]], about 2.7 km from his office.
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* [[User:The_T-Man|The_T-Man]] for [[2018-08-17 48 11]], which is about 2kms walking distance from the hospital where he started working the day before
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* [[User:Deneko|Deneko]] and [[User:Fippe|Fippe]] for [[2019-01-23 52 9]], which is about 1.1km/1.3km from their educational institutions.

Latest revision as of 02:20, 12 March 2024

Cubicle Geohash Icon

Template:Cubicle geohash

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This user earned the cubicle geohash achievement
by working at the ({{{latitude}}}, {{{longitude}}}) geohash on [[{{{date}}} {{{latitude}}} {{{longitude}}}|{{{date}}}]].

This ribbon works for the full achievement or the honourable mention.

This achievement can be attained only when the place where you work is exactly under the coordinates of a particular day. This is incredibly lucky, and the chance of this happening to you is the area of your workplace divided by the area of the graticule you're in. Assuming a sphere of radius R (Earth is approximately 6,370,000m), θ = the absolute value of your graticule's latitude in degrees, and H = the size of your workplace in square metres, then the probability P is represented by the following formula:

P = H / ( [πR2 / 180] · [sin(θ+1) - sin(θ)] )

A typical cube dweller in Denver, Colorado (latitude 39°) has a chance of around one in 4,240,000. The same office drone in Vardø, Norway (latitude 70°) has a chance of around one in 1,840,000.

Qualification:

  • For the workplace to count it needs to be a place you physically attended for the purpose of work on the day of the geohash (day off - too bad), with standard GPS photo proof or equivalent
  • If you have multiple workplaces on the day, any can count
  • If your workplace is mobile (line marking vehicle, ship at sea, etc) it can still count if it's working at the time of passing the days coordinates
  • Travel between workplaces doesn't count.

If this does happen to you, you are required to throw a mad-keen office party at a day's notice.

This is one of those things that probably won't ever happen, but how cool would it be if it did?.

Winners

As of July 24th, nobody has won this yet.

Okay, I'm going to go for the win! I am claiming 2009-08-30 51 -1 to be within 6 metres of my place of work! I have photographic evidence of me at work, with the geohash point in sight, from 4 months prior to the geohash. I went to work, ran some Cucumber features (to actually do some work, thankfully they all passed!) and threw the obligatory mad-keen party to which 3 other people came!

Update: we can now provide video evidence and a 30-second video montage in celebration of the cubicle geohash!

Somebody might contest my win, because the geohash was not actually in the building. However, it was just outside, and I do sometimes work outside. It was at least on our land, between our office and car park. And you know, our office is very small!

Somebody could still get an even better cubicle geohash, in which case I'll happily pass over the title, but I'd like to be reigning champion for now, if that's okay! --sermoa 23:11, 30 August 2009 (UTC)

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Sermoa earned the cubicle geohash achievement
by working at the (51, -1) geohash on 2009-08-30.
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Sermoa, Macronencer, Mapaholic and DavidMiller earned the Party geohash
by throwing a mad-keen party at the (51, -1) geohash on 2009-08-30.
2009-08-30 51 -1 Macronencer 02.jpg


2024

Dolphintreasure appears to have won this with the 2024-02-15 41 -88 point falling in the maintenance area of the building she works in. No word on whether a party occurred or not.

Honourable Mentions

Even if the coordinates aren't in your office, you can get an honourable mention if you work within 1km (a 15 minute walk) of the coordinates and reach the coordinates on the appropriate day or make a reasonable attempt to do so. The workplace needs to qualify as above. While this is 1,400 times more likely to happen than the coordinates being in your workplace, it's still a long shot. If you work within 3km, you may award yourself with the almost honourable mention.

Almost honourable mentions