2020-08-28 47 11

Fri 28 Aug 2020 in 47,11: 47.2732682, 11.4693970 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

in a small space between two long tarpaulin structures apparently growing organic mushrooms in an industrial area in Hall in Tirol

Participants

• π π π (talk)

Expedition

I‘d been on vacation in Milan with my siblings and wanted to do this hash on our way back to Munich, where my brother lives. It had the most perfect location – only a kilometer by car from the road we took anyway, near the city of Innsbruck, in an industrial area with no residents, and with a petrol station only 300 m back the street. The chances for such a perfect hashpoint were miniscule! I managed to convince my brother to refuel there (likely would‘ve done so anyway), and walked the rest of the street to the "building" in which the hash lay. As I arrived, two people got in their cars in front of it and drove off shortly after while I hid behind a container. I was sure I couldn‘t enter, so I walked along the side of the building as best I could (there was a lot of vegetation in the small space between the tarpaulin and the fence). I took pictures, about 20 m away from the location, and walked back to the front. My siblings just came around in the car as I noticed the narrow corridors between the tarpaulin structures, whose doors stood wide open. There was nobody there, and my phone told me the hashpoint was exactly in the second such gap, so I entered it and reached the point my phone had designated, huge tarpaulin walls on both sides. I felt happy to have reached a hash I didn‘t expect to, much less in such an awesome location. Nobody had spotted or approached us (work hours seemed to be over), and we drove on to Munich.

When I wanted to log the hash back at home, I found out that the building was apparenty a facility that grows organic mushrooms (there had been no sign on the front). I didn‘t even know those existed, and an industrial area is one of the last places I would‘ve expected such an edifice. But I also found out that, unfortunately, Google Maps for some reason had shown the location of the address of the building, rather than the coordinates of the hashpoint (it normally doesn‘t do this). So the actual hashpoint had been 15 from the point I thought it was, on the other side of the middle of the building that ended the corridor between the tarpaulins. The actual location was in the structure, so I wouldn‘t‘ve been able to get to it, but had I gone around the building and entered through the door directly opposite the one I had actually entered, I would‘ve gotten 1 m near it. This way, all I get is a sense of frustration and my first Blinded by Science consolation prize. But still, this was definitely one of the most exceptional expeditions I‘ve undertaken, and I don‘t expect to experience a geohash quite like this again.

Photos

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  proof, I thought

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  coords

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  nearest to where I thought the hash was

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  the structure from the side

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  from the front (yes, same building)

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  the space between the tarpaulin

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  π π π in the space

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  the next corridor

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  weird pano

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  could've gone inside

Achievements

π π π earned the Blinded by Science Consolation Prize by failing to reach the (47, 11) geohash on 2020-08-28 because Google Maps showed the position of an address 15 m from the actual hashpoint for the coordinates.