User:DanQ

43 / m / 51,-1

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Dan Q

Based near Oxford; in the Swindon, UK graticule.

Expeditions

• Wednesday 19 February 2014 - successful expedition by bike (57.75 mile round trip) to a the geohash in the nearby London West graticule, to commemorate the second anniversary of his father's death.
• 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.
• 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
• 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 retroactive reverse-engineering of Google Takeout data five years after the fact!
• Saturday 4 August 2018 - successful expedition by bike at midnight to a hashpoint about 2 miles from his house
• 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
• Wednesday 22 August 2018 - successful expedition to East Adderbury to a hashpoint in a field of cows
• 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
• Thursday 23 August 2018 - successful expedition to replace the cancelled one; this time a hashpoint South one graticule, deep in a forest
• Tuesday 16 October 2018 - successful expedition to a roadside near a windfarm while en route to an exam
• 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 Challenge Robin II)
• Tuesday 8 January 2019 - successful expedition to the A34 on the way to work to earn a Birthday Achievement (and to hide a geocache!)
• Monday 27 May 2019 - successful expedition to a cul-de-sac in South East Oxford as a break from studying
• Thursday 1 August 2019 - successful expedition by bike to a field near Charlbury Railway Station
• 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 documented only on my blog
• Friday 21 February 2020 - successful expedition to the village of Curbridge as a diversion on the way to a coworking space
• 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
• Wednesday 9 September 2020 - successful lunchtime expedition to the Vale of White Horse
• Friday 19 February 2021 - successful retrohash to the 2012-02-19 51 -1 hashpoint to commemorate the anniversary of my dad's death
• 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
• Thursday 19 August 2021 - failed expedition to a field near Cote
• Sunday 29 August 2021 - successful expedition to a thorny cutting above the Lancaster Canal while driving my partner's brother to Cumbria
• Wednesday 22 December 2021 - successful expedition to the side of a field at Syde Farm on the East side of Syde
• Tuesday 1 February 2022 - successful expedition to the site of the (under construction) Aurora Solar Power Plant near Eynsham!
• Tuesday 8 February 2022 - successful expedition to a field near Kingston Bagpuize
• Saturday 19 February 2022 - successful first part of a two-day expedition
• Sunday 20 February 2022 - successful second part of a two-day expedition
• Monday 24 October 2022 - successful expedition to Wharf Stream Way, Eynsham
• Friday 2 December 2022 - failed expedition to a hashpoint guarded by a trio of bullocks near Appleton Sports Field
• Monday 5 December 2022 - successful night cycle out to a hashpoint off a bridleway begins Cokethorpe School
• Monday 2 January 2023 - successful damp hike around and then up Muswell Hill with a dog
• Friday 10 March 2023 - successful dog walk around North Leigh Common
• 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?
• Saturday 10 February 2024 - after a long hiatus, a successful expedition to a muddy field South of Cumnnor
• Thursday 9 May 2024 - the dog needed a walk, so we made a successful expedition to a hashpoint near Standlake Allotments
• Tuesday 22 October 2024 - successful expedition up Harcourt Hill (with the dog)
• Sunday 10 November 2024 - Tron lightcycle expedition to and from Barnard Gate via a circuitous route and some roadworks
• Thursday 14 November 2024 - failed expedition to a field near Ducklington
• Friday 22 November 2024 - successful expedition (and graticule unlocking in a previously-unexplored graticule!) to an abandoned pasture near Abbey, County Limerick, Ireland, with his mother.
• Saturday 23 November 2024 - failed expedition to another locked Irish graticule, on account of flood waters washing out all the meaningful roads between their AirBnB and the hashpoint

Achievements

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

Dan Q earned the Graticule Unlocked Achievement by being the first to reach any hashpoint in the (53, -8) graticule, here, on 2024-11-22.

Dan Q earned the Tron achievement by reaching and returning from the (51, -1) geohash without crossing his own tracks on 2024-11-10.

Dan Q earned the OpenStreetMap achievement by contributing to OpenStreetMap based on their expedition to the (51, -1) geohash on 2022-12-05.

Dan Q achieved level 6 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement by visiting coordinates in Swindon, United Kingdom and 6 of the surrounding graticules.

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.

Dan Q earned the Birthday Geohash Achievement by reaching the (51, -1) geohash on his 38th birthday, 2019-01-08.

Dan Q earned the Hunter gatherer achievement by harvesting blackberries on their expedition to the (52, -1) geohash on 2018-08-22.

Dan Q earned the Consecutive geohash achievement by reaching hash points on 2 consecutive days starting on 2018-08-22.

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.

This user earned the Midnight Geohash achievement by reaching the (51, -1) geohash on 2018-08-04 in the middle of the night.

This user earned the Drag-along achievement by dragging Ruth (and carrying baby Annabel) to the (51, -1) geohash on 2014-04-21.

This user earned the Walk geohash Achievement by reaching the (51, -1) geohash on 2014-04-21 on foot.

This user earned the Land geohash achievement by reaching the (51, -0) geohash on 2014-02-19.

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:

• DanQ.me - blog and stuff; filter to just geohash logs or just geo* logs (i.e. including geocaching etc.)
• @dan@danq.me on Mastodon
• Keybase

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