Talk:Globalhash

I love the idea. Just as Ph. or M.S. Fogg would do. --Tom 17:32, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

I just need someone to help code this; I can edit code a bit, but I wouldn't know where to start with this. I have no real web coding expertise. -Wmcduff 17:41, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

I keep an eye on the Globalhash, just in case... today (16th of February) it falls in Libya. If you zoom in on satellite view about half way and look a little north there are a lot of black circles. Does anyone know what they are? http://www.drwilco.net/globalhash/map.html. --Kate 13:23, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

They look like center pivot irrigation systems, but could be anything. Some of them appear green at certain times. On the ones to the left you can make out the device that circles these circles. -- relet 13:32, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

S-i-g-h-t-e-d-P-e-o-p-l-e-S-u-c-k --Ilpadre 15:16, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

Australian Globalhash

The hash for Friday 2009-03-13 looks very reachable for a globalhash. Any chance of a good Aussie expedition? --Woodveil 14:55, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Hmmm - would love to try this one if I had nothing on today. It's about five hours north of Sydney, and probably achievable. I don;t know of any active geohashers in the northern part of our state though... --CJ 15:04, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

If I read right, the globalhash in question is for Friday. So if you have 5 hours of spare time tomorrow...--Woodveil 15:09, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

But in Sydney, it's tomorrow already, I think! (And by the way, is Friday 13th really the best day to be globalhashing?) :-) -- Benjw 15:21, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Yes - it certainly is Friday here already! We live in the future here in Australia (well, compared to you at least) --CJ 16:13, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

That's a great location, but ... are you using 2009-03-12 DOW and 2009-03-13 as the date to generate the coordinates? How does this work for east-of 30W?

I check the globalhash daily using the Online Globalhashing Tool, as featured on the Globalhash page. I personally don't know what numbers it uses, but it always shows me the globalhash a day in advance. From what I can tell, it gives the entire earth the same hash for a given day, using the Dow opening from the day before. So for anyone East of 30W, the globalhash for a given day uses the same Dow opening as that day's geohash (i.e. the previous day's Dow opening). But West of 30W, the globalhash also uses the previous day's Dow opening even though the geohash uses the Dow opening from that morning. I hope that makes sense to anyone else... Or could anyone explain it better? --Woodveil 16:07, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Okay, I see it now, it always uses the date before what you enter, (which works out to the same day for the eastern hemisphere,) and the Dow opening for that day. If you check for a Monday, it will presumably use the preceding Friday's open, and Sunday's date. That way it can get the same globalhash for the whole world, and with a meaningful amount of time to reach it. -- Jevanyn 17:52, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Globalhashes for Easter weekend

The Online Globalhashing Tool appears to be unaware that the Dow is closed for Good Friday (2009-04-10). So, although I can see the 4/10 globalhash (eastern Russia), I can't see the points for Saturday, Sunday, or Monday. --starbird 01:55, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

I use this tool (fill in your exact lat and long in the address) which has them ok. They are:

• Today: N 65°14.990 E 165°29.954. Graticule: Unnamed, probably Russia
• Saturday: N 2°34.982 E 51°04.899. Graticule: Unnamed, probably Northern Africa
• Sunday: S 24°21.339 E 150°56.262. Graticule: Biloela, Australia
• Monday: S 76°43.414 E 122°49.570. Graticule: Unnamed, probably Antarctica

What I am mildly surprised about is that another day's hashes haven't been released. Is Easter Monday not a holiday in the USA? -- Benjw 07:35, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, Benjw. No, some US businesses (and the financial markets) are closed on Good Friday, but the following Monday is not generally observed.

Sunday's point looks like a second chance for Brisbane and some of the hardcore crazies further south (see the 2009-03-01 globalhash). Saturday's point off Somalia is more intruiging, though. What kind of ribbon do you get for meeting REAL PIRATES at a water hash? --starbird 08:57, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

Trail of blood consolation prize, I should think! -- Benjw 11:22, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

At least. There are several naval ships in the area as well (US and India off the top of my head) and the latest hijacking in the area was pretty close to those coordinates. -- Jevanyn 15:09, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

Upcoming Locations

* May 11, 2009 offers an incredible opportunity for the intrepid Globalhasher. Located, as near as I can tell, exactly on the Clark Fork of Red Creek in Yosemite National Park, this location sits approximately seven miles (as the crow flies) from Curry Village, and about a mile and a half from the nearest hiking trail. If you choose to accept this mission, you will collect (at least) three achievements: Globalhash, Water Geohash, and MNIMB Geohash. Good luck!

Somebody's calculations are a little out. The globalhash for Monday 11 May 2009 is at N 87°18.227', W 124°10.674'. -- Benjw 14:31, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

Hmm. Interesting. I was going from the drwilco map generator. Odd. Bill^2

It hasn't picked up the 8 May Dow opening yet, so it's using a DJIA of 0.0 for all three hashes this weekend. --starbird 15:27, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

I'm thinking that drwilco is completely unreliable at this point, as it still has today's location where I referenced it, and a quick check of tomorrow's shows that to be wrong as well. Anybody know how to reach the person who maintains it? Bill^2

That would explain it. Does it not warn you when it does that?  :-s I use the tool I mentioned in a previous conversation on this page; it seems to be more reliable. -- Benjw 15:31, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

I don't think it realizes. If you ask it for Tuesday's globalhash, it correctly objects. --starbird 15:45, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

It seems to believe 0 is a totally reasonable DJIA value. Although I don't object to that point of view, it's not very likely that that will ever occur soon. About Small Hash Inquiry Tool: That one will always know the globalhash at the very same time peeron has the standard hashes. It gets the DJIA from peeron but does the actual calculations itself. Unless the DJIA returned from there is wrong, the coordinates should be right. --Ekorren 15:52, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

May 11, 2009

Awesome location today: it's in a creek in Yosemite National Park. It's about 10 miles from Curry Village, which is inside the park. For a non-GPSer like me, this looks so reachable. Shows what I know about hiking, etc. :-)

Interesting how the Google Map for terrain has the trails marked, not the roadmap. -- Jevanyn 17:10, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

The drwilco calculator is hosed. The Monday globalhash is in 87, -124, not in Yosemite. See discussion above. It's wrong for Tuesday, too -- the actual point is just a couple of miles off the Vietnamese coast near Da Nang, not in Siberia. --starbird 17:27, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

Oh I'm so glad that is still a bug, but the bug has to be fixed, or that globalhash look up program taken down. I saw it on Friday, but when I made a page for it, I was told by multiple people that it was wrong, that it was at the north pole. When I saw this morning that it still showed in the wrong place, I was afraid that the people who said it was wrong had been mistaken, and that I would have to hate them forever for making me miss a globalhash. -Robyn 17:38, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

I agree, that would be very sad. I plan to make liberal use of the "Toggle debugging info" link in the lower left corner of the calculator page for a while. --starbird 17:50, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

How will that tell me if it is lying? -24.83.1.77 18:28, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

A good test is to check the day's coordinates for places east of the 30W line, and see if they vaguely match up with the globalhash coords. For instance, on May 11, the 30W latitude fraction was 0.98502, which ties up well with a globalhash at 87N, and not at all well with one at 38N, which is roughly where Yosemite is. -- Benjw 18:49, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

If you toggle the debugging info on on the map, it should display a DJIA number used for the day. This weekend, it somehow failed to retrieve the actual DJIA, and thus shows none and calculates with zero. Same thing happens always for a few minutes after DJIA announcement. --Ekorren 19:08, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

It still seems like it's broken; still showing 0 for the DJIA Crazycaveman 15:43, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

2009-05-19

Globalhash for tuesday is in the USA, and even on land, but...

It's on obviously very exclusive private property. You can book daytrips to the island, but I wouldn't expect them to allow you to leave the beaten track and detour into what is probably a swamp. If anyone would like to go for closest failure yet, this might be the day, though ;-)

Here's the homepage of the facitily: Little St. Simons Island lodge