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== Notes and plans ==
 
== Notes and plans ==
  
* We'd like to try to do a hash with only a map and compass, not even using a car GPS to get us there.
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* The tongs are just over six years late to this particular party, but they don't care.
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* We'd like to try to do a hash with only a map and compass, not even using a car GPS to get us there. We later found out that this is called [[No_Batteries_Geohash|no batteries geohash]].
 
* We'd like to meet someone at a hashpoint one day.
 
* We'd like to meet someone at a hashpoint one day.
 
* M suggested a [[Birthday_Geohash|birthday expedition]] and doing a geohash on holiday.
 
* M suggested a [[Birthday_Geohash|birthday expedition]] and doing a geohash on holiday.
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* To remember to wear long trousers (and maybe wellies) when we go hashing.
 
* To remember to wear long trousers (and maybe wellies) when we go hashing.
 
* To remember to mark the GPS coordinates of the car when we leave it.
 
* To remember to mark the GPS coordinates of the car when we leave it.
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* F suggested we could do decihashing, where we just shift the decimal point across one place to give us a set of possible points within roughly a five mile square around Cambridge. We thought it might be just as fun.
  
 
== Achievements unlocked ==
 
== Achievements unlocked ==

Revision as of 08:00, 28 August 2014

The Tongs is a name for a group of friends who go geohashing in the Cambridge (UK) graticule, but who might stray into the Northampton graticule sometimes. We usually aim to visit hashpoints nearish us at 4pm local time. We monitor our talk page so if any other local people want to join us, please let us know. We don't yet have a hashcot.

Expeditions

# Date Who Graticule Where Result
1 Sunday, 17th August 2014 FTB (3 people) 52,0 A ploughed field just south of the A14. Success
2a Saturday, 23rd August 2014 FMTB (4 people) 52,0 A field on a hillside near the village of Shaftenhoe End. Success
2b Saturday, 23rd August 2014 FMTB (4 people) 52,-0 Just off a track by the side of a field near Therfield. Success
  • Different graticules: 2.
  • Total hashpoints: 3.

Notes and plans

  • The tongs are just over six years late to this particular party, but they don't care.
  • We'd like to try to do a hash with only a map and compass, not even using a car GPS to get us there. We later found out that this is called no batteries geohash.
  • We'd like to meet someone at a hashpoint one day.
  • M suggested a birthday expedition and doing a geohash on holiday.
  • We'd like Cambridge to be the UK's most active graticule.
  • To remember to wear long trousers (and maybe wellies) when we go hashing.
  • To remember to mark the GPS coordinates of the car when we leave it.
  • F suggested we could do decihashing, where we just shift the decimal point across one place to give us a set of possible points within roughly a five mile square around Cambridge. We thought it might be just as fun.

Achievements unlocked

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This user earned the Land geohash achievement
by reaching the (52, 0) geohash on 2014-08-23.
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This user earned the Multihash Achievement
by reaching the 2014-08-23 52 0 and 2014-08-23 52 -0 geohashes on 2014-08-23.