Difference between revisions of "2011-01-25 50 8"

Revision as of 21:56, 25 January 2011

Location

In a driveway of a residential house

Participants

LadyBB

Plans

Visit the hashpoint, get the photos and back to work (~2.2 km away) - easy hash!

Expedition

Part 1

Started at 14:30 from work and drove to the address "active geohasher" pointed out. Meanwhile the drizzle became stronger … very nice. I arrived in the street, parked my car and tried to catch the right coordinates within my mobile phone … without success because the numbers were jumping around all the time - I was exasperated. I tried to ring at No 6 because my GPS tool taught me my aiming point is probably IN the garage. But nobody was opening. So far I gave up and drove back to work.

Afterwards an additional look at Google Maps told me instead, the wanted hashpoint should be one house north-east?!? Maybe I go back there one day with a proper GPS unit and figure the right point out!!!

So I declare this expedition as failed due to my improper GPS equipment.

Part 2

It kept bothering me ....so I decided to leave work half an houre erarlier than normal on Thuesdays and drove to the hashpoint again. And I found the error ... my navigationsystem was the bug. It brought me (again) to the #6b. But this time I pass the #6a (where I was searching the coordinates in the first time) as well and went straight to the #6. I rang at the door and a nice and friendly woman opened the door. She gave me the access and I went to her driveway ... and to the right coordinates!!!!

Expedition - succeeded!!

What did I learn?

Never trust your satnav without a good check to the paper roadmap ... and ... a technical system is just as intelligent as its user!!

Photos

Coordinates reached in the end!!
the grin

Achievements

LadyBB earned the Ambassador achievement

by obtaining permission to access the (50, 8) geohash on 2011-01-25.

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+{{Ambassador geohash
+    | latitude = 50
+    | longitude = 8
+    | date = 2011-01-25
+    | name = LadyBB
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+}}
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-[[Category:New report]]
-<!-- Potential categories. Please include all the ones appropriate to your expedition -->
-<!-- If this is a planning page:
-[[Category:Expedition planning]]
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-<!-- An actual expedition:
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--- and one or more of --
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-[[Category:Expeditions with videos]]
-[[Category:Expedition without GPS]]
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-<!-- if you reached your coords:
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-<!-- or if you failed :(
-[[Category:Coordinates not reached]]
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-[[Category:Not reached - Mother Nature]]     when there is a natural obstacle between you and the target
-[[Category:Not reached - No public access]]  when there is a man-made obstacle between you and the target
-[[Category:Not reached - Technology]]        when you failed get your GPS, car, bike or such to work
-[[Category:Not reached - Did not attempt]]   when you went to an alternate location, or decided early on to abort the expedition.
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