Difference between revisions of "2024-03-30 50 8"

Latest revision as of 12:12, 26 July 2024

Location

In a forest area, about 30 meters away from the closest track road, in Offenbach county, Hesse, Germany. The closest settlement is Neurott (a suburb/quarter of Langen) in southeast direction.

This day’s weather: completely clouded

Participants

Green guy! (talk)
Green guy!’s mother (no consent to publish photos of her)
Green guy!’s father (no consent to publish photos of him)

Plans

Not in the mood for thorough planning, so it’s quick and dirty:

Drive to Neurott in the afternoon
- Might be a bit difficult to park our car there …
Go on a walk to visit the hashpoint
Visit a nearby cafe and/or do the groceries
Drive back home
(Enjoy the rest of Holy Saturday)

Expedition

My parents and I drove to the quarter of Neurott. As expected, it was a bit tricky to find a spot to park our car there, but we were successful after a short while.

It was also a bit tricky to find a spot to actually leave the residential area and enter the forest, as OpenStreetMap shows quite a lot of barriers. We found a way and successfully walked to the hashpoint, reaching coordinates a few minutes after 4 pm CET. (I’m mentioning the time zone because the kind-of-useless CEST, better known as daylight-savings time, takes effect the next day.) While walking back to our car, I had the opportunity to trace a path which is not mapped yet in OpenStreetMap. Also, I surveyed another spot that didn’t look possible to trespass due to a construction site, but actually was.

After finishing our expedition, we felt like enjoying some cake and/or ice cream in a café in Langen. My parents opted for the family-operated EisAnita which offers home-made pastry and ice cream, and so we drove there. Because it was still March, there was no ice cream available, so we savored coffee and cake. It was a calm and nice place.

Tracklog: Walking to the hashpoint

Direction: south => north for a while => west => north (reaching hashpoint) => south => east (via a path not mapped yet in OSM) => south => east
GPS accuracy: medium–good
Markers show all locations where I took photos (including some photos taken separate from the tracklog) – nearly all of them are taken for OpenStreetMap surveying and not uploaded here.

Pictures

Almost at the hashpoint
Coordinates reached
The hashpoint’s forest floor
Funny grin
A slice of home-made marble cake at EisAnita, accompanied by a glass of freshly squeezed orange juice

Achievements

First-time

I earned these for the first time from this geohash.

Green guy! achieved level 2 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement

by visiting coordinates in Mannheim, Germany and 2 of the surrounding graticules.

Recurring

I already earned these from an earlier geohash, but fulfilled the conditions again on this one.

Green guy! earned the 2-in-a-row achievement

by achieving a connection of 2 graticules in a row (both 49,8 and 49,9 connected to 50,8) after reaching the (50, 8) geohash on 2024-03-30.

Green guy! earned the OpenStreetMap achievement

by contributing [1] to OpenStreetMap based on their expedition to the (50, 8) geohash on 2024-03-30.

Green guy! earned the Land geohash achievement

by reaching the (50, 8) geohash on 2024-03-30.

And no, drag-along doesn’t count as recurring because my parents are now sort-of familiar with the concept of geohashing (apart from not comprehending the Algorithm’s details).

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-| lat={{#explode:{{SUBPAGENAME}}| |1}}
+| lat=50
-| lon={{#explode:{{SUBPAGENAME}}| |2}}
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+| date=2024-03-30
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+[[File:2024-03-30 50 8 160839.jpg|150px|thumb|right]]
 == Location ==
-In a forest area, about 30 meters away from the closest track road, in Offenbach county, Hesse, Germany. The closest settlement is Neurott (a suburb of Langen) in southeast direction.
+In a forest area, about 30 meters away from the closest track road, in Offenbach county, Hesse, Germany. The closest settlement is Neurott (a suburb/quarter of Langen) in southeast direction.
+This day’s weather: completely clouded
 == Participants ==
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 == Expedition ==
-<!-- a 10-to-50-word text is sufficient! -->
+My parents and I drove to the quarter of Neurott. As expected, it was a bit tricky to find a spot to park our car there, but we were successful after a short while.
-<!-- As planned, after Sunday church service, my parents and I drove to ''__RESTAURANT__'' in __STADT__. We had a delightful time there; I ate a delicious __MEAL__.
+It was also a bit tricky to find a spot to actually leave the residential area and enter the forest, as OpenStreetMap shows quite a lot of barriers. We found a way and successfully walked to the hashpoint, reaching coordinates a few minutes after 4 pm <abbr title="Central European Time">CET</abbr>. <small>(I’m mentioning the time zone because the kind-of-useless <abbr title="Central European Summer Time">CEST</abbr>, better known as daylight-savings time, takes effect the next day.)</small> While walking back to our car, I had the opportunity to trace a path which is not mapped yet in OpenStreetMap. Also, I surveyed another spot that didn’t look possible to trespass due to a construction site, but actually was.
-After lunch, we visited the hashpoint: We parked our car ____ and ____ -->
+After finishing our expedition, we felt like enjoying some cake and/or ice cream in a café in Langen. My parents opted for the family-operated [https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/1347958010 ''EisAnita''] which offers home-made pastry and ice cream, and so we drove there. Because it was still March, there was no ice cream available, so we savored coffee and cake. It was a calm and nice place.
 == Tracklog: Walking to the hashpoint ==
-<!-- not required if you have a “coordinates reached” screenshot -->
 * Direction: south => north for a while => west => north (reaching hashpoint) => south => east (via a path not mapped yet in OSM) => south => east
 * GPS accuracy: medium–good
-* Markers show all locations where I took photos (including some photos taken separate from the tracklog)
+* Markers show all locations where I took photos (including some photos taken separate from the tracklog) – nearly all of them are taken for OpenStreetMap surveying and not uploaded here.
 {{Tracklog|2024-03-30 50 8 Green guy!'s expedition.gpx}}
 == Pictures ==
-<!-- 5–10 pictures are already sufficient! Only upload the most interesting ones! -->
-<!-- File:2024-##-## ## ## _____.jpg | Witty Comment -->
 <gallery>
+File:2024-03-30 50 8 160801.jpg | Almost at the hashpoint
+File:2024-03-30 50 8 160827 OruxMaps Coordinates.png | Coordinates reached
+File:2024-03-30 50 8 160839.jpg | The hashpoint’s forest floor
+File:2024-03-30 50 8 160927.jpg | Funny grin
+File:2024-03-30 50 8 164743.jpg | A slice of home-made marble cake at ''EisAnita'', accompanied by a glass of freshly squeezed orange juice
 </gallery>
-<!-- IDEA: Think about taking a panorama picture of the hashpoint site! -->
 == Achievements ==
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 === First-time ===
 I earned these for the first time from this geohash.
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+{{Minesweeper geohash
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+| ranknumber = 2
+| e = true
+| n = true
+| name = [[User:Green guy!|Green guy!]]
+}}
 === Recurring ===
 I already earned these from an earlier geohash, but fulfilled the conditions again on this one.
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+| level = 2
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+| graticule1 = both 49,8 and 49,9 connected
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+| graticule2 = 50,8
-| name = [[User:Green guy!|Green guy!]] ([[User talk:Green guy!|talk]])
+| name = [[User:Green guy!|Green guy!]]
-}} -->
+}}
-{{land geohash
+{{OpenStreetMap achievement
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+| latitude = 50
-| longitude = {{#explode:{{SUBPAGENAME}}| |2}}
+| longitude = 8
-| date = {{#explode:{{SUBPAGENAME}}| |0}}
+| date = 2024-03-30
-| name = [[User:Green guy!|Green guy!]] ([[User talk:Green guy!|talk]])
+| OSMlink  = 149395995
+| OSMlink2 = 149398353
+| name = [[User:Green guy!|Green guy!]]
+}}
+{{Land geohash
+| latitude = 50
+| longitude = 8
+| date = 2024-03-30
+| name = [[User:Green guy!|Green guy!]]
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 And no, [[Drag-along achievement|drag-along]] doesn’t count as recurring because my parents are now sort-of familiar with the concept of geohashing (apart from not comprehending [[the Algorithm]]’s details).
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