User:Ilpadre

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About me

24 / m / 49,8

I live in Heidelberg, Germany and will mainly try to reach hashpoints by bike or foot (I like running long distances). If reachable by train, I might also go (and already have been) to hashpoints further away from my home.

Geohashing goals for the future (more or less sorted by probability of success):

• Midnight Geohash achieved 2008-12-31
• Snowman Geohash achieved 2008-11-24
• Consecutive Geohash achieved 2008-12-31
• Proxy Geohash
• Puppet Master Geohash
• Multihash
• Regional Geohashing
• Expeditions in other countries achieved 2009-01-12
• Expeditions on other continents
• Globalhash

Geohashes

Videos of my expeditions (3 so far).

Visited Graticules

N\E	7	8	9	10	11
50
49
48
47

Regular Expeditions

Total expeditions:	10
Hashpoints reached:	10
Hashpoints not reached:	0
Graticules visited:	4

Expedition:	Achievements worth mentioning:
2008-10-22 Heidelberg (49,8)	Template:Virgin graticule ilpadre earned the Walk geohash Achievement by reaching the (49, 8) geohash on 2008-10-22 on foot, travelling a distance of 5.8 km.
2008-10-26 Heidelberg (49,8)	ilpadre earned the Walk geohash Achievement by reaching the (49, 8) geohash on 2008-10-26 on foot, travelling a distance of 11 km.
2008-10-29 Heidelberg (49,8)	ilpadre earned the Déjà Vu Geohash Achievement by reaching the (49, 8) geohash on 2008-10-29, and previously on 2008-09-28.
2008-11-01 Eßleben (49,10) met Danatar	ilpadre earned the Drag-along achievement by dragging his girlfriend to the (49, 10) geohash on 2008-11-01.
2008-11-24 Bad Wimpfen (49,9) met Danatar	ilpadre earned the Holy hash achievement by reaching the sacred (49, 9) location on 2008-11-24. ilpadre earned the Snowman Geohash Achievement by building a snowman at the (49, 9) geohash on 2008-11-24.
2008-12-10 Mauer (49,8)	ilpadre earned the Public transport geohash achievement by reaching the (49, 8) geohash on 2008-12-10 using public transit. ilpadre earned the Last man standing achievement by being the the only hasher world-wide to go on a geohashing expedition on 2008-12-10.
2008-12-30 Wörth (49,8)	ilpadre earned the Public transport geohash achievement by reaching the (49, 8) geohash on 2008-12-30 using public transit. ilpadre earned the Frozen Geohash Achievement by reaching the (49, 8) geohash on 2008-12-30 while the temperature was below the freezing point of water.
2008-12-31 Maximiliansau (49,8)	ilpadre earned the Midnight Geohash achievement by reaching the (49, 8) geohash on 2008-12-31 in the middle of the night. ilpadre earned the Picnic achievement by reaching the (49, 8) geohash on 2008-12-31. ilpadre earned the Consecutive geohash achievement by reaching 2 consecutive hash points starting on 2008-12-30.
2009-01-12 Lauterbourg (48,8) met Ekorren	ilpadre earned the Border geohash achievement by crossing the Germany-France border on 2009-01-12 to reach the (48, 8) geohash.
2009-01-21 Heidelberg (49,8) met Danatar	ilpadre earned the Sunrise Geohash Achievement by reaching the (49, 8) geohash on 2009-01-21 to smile at the first rays of sun to cross the horizon. ilpadre earned the Walk geohash Achievement by reaching the (49, 8) geohash on 2009-01-21 on foot, travelling a distance of 4 km.

Irregular Expeditions

2008-12-21 Heidelberg (49,8)

Retro expedition to a conveniently placed 2008-07-09 hashpoint

Wiki Stuff

I like drawing xkcd-ish images for achievement ribbons. See my gallery of achievement images. I keep looking out for newly created achievements that need a ribbon image, and for old images that could be improved.

To-Do List

Graticule pages: Currently working on Dubai, UAE, Muscat, Oman, Dammam, Saudi Arabia and adjacent graticules. Also trying to name the Arabian Peninsula graticules for the All Graticules list. (Not easy, since Google Maps makes agonizing mistakes, like calling the capital of Qatar Ad Dawhah, what is actually only the name of the municipality the real capital, Doha, is located in. The equivalent would be claiming that Lazio is the capital of Italy.)

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Misc.

NYSE Holidays

“	:) Ar, a hash! Oh, Sahara ):	”
—Geohashing palindrome