Talk:2016-05-21 52 0

Tongs' availability

Three out of four of us will be moving house on 2016-05-21. The possibility of them making the hashpoint depends a lot on how easy is it to reach from Cambridge (that is, how long the expedition will take). Tongs/B will be able to make it, though. Tongs (talk) 20:53, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

Backup Anniversary Points for May 21 in 52 0

Please vote by adding your username to as many locations as you would like to select for the backup, in the Votes column. The one with the most votes at 14:30 on Friday 20th May 2016 will be chosen. In the event of a tie, the latest year is chosen. Please change and improve this voting system if you disagree with it!

	Year	Location	Rail Transport	By Car	Votes
1	2015 OS Map	A field perimeter close to the side of a road, north of Feltwell 2.3 km from the exact centre of the graticule. There is a large gated concrete area very close.	6 km from Lakenheath railway station.	Car parking could be 1 km away in Feltwell.	Sourcerer
2	2011 OS Map	In woodland, just off the Icknield Way in Thetford Forest with plenty of space at the hashpoint.	12 to 14 km from the railway stations in Thetford or Bury St. Edmunds.	There is picnic car parking 3 km away.	Tongs/B Sourcerer ChromeCrusaders
3	2009 OS Map	On a fire break path in Thetford Forest. There is plenty of space at the hashpoint.	7 km from Brandon railway station.	Car parking is 2 km away with space for a few cars.	Tongs/B
4		The nearest accessible point to this year's actual geohash.	?	?	Benjw Tongs/F Tongs/B Sourcerer
5		The most fun and/or convenient hashpoint among those which are near us, i.e. considering different graticules too.	?	?	Tongs/M Sourcerer

Thanks for this - it's very useful. I think hashpoints which are in big forests are much more fun and practical. When driving, we often stop off at forested areas and just go for walks, climb trees, play games, that kind of thing. It seems both 2011's and 2009's points are on public land where you'd expect to find walkers. 2009's is very near Center Parcs, with its huge swimming pool dome thing, but I think we wouldn't be able to get access to the site for just a day (even if we'd want to). I think also that running around in the woods is far more in the spirit of geohashing. I added a column so that we could vote on which alternative people would prefer. Tongs (talk) 13:18, 22 December 2015 (EST)

I added this expedition to Geo Hashing:Current events just in case we get interest from far far away. --Sourcerer (talk) 16:32, 22 December 2015 (EST)

Just to be difficult (who, me?), I'd vote for none of the previous year's hashpoints. Simply because I think the idea of an expedition to see how close we can get to the actual day's point is more in the spirit of geohashing than going to a previously-decided point simply because we know we can get there. — Benjw  _{talk} 13:04, 28 March 2016 (UTC)

This comment sparked a minor debate at Tongs HQ. F agrees totally with Benjw. We talked a bit about what would happen for a very northerly point, and realised that were Benjw's suggestions to be adopted, that would mean just a nice day by the seaside. If it's a long long way, say around the wash, we were thinking of making a weekend of it. M suggested that we could decide on the day before which among the points we could reach in other graticules looked most fun and accessible, and voted for that. T was watching 'Next Step' so abstained on this issue. Tongs (talk) 14:54, 28 March 2016 (UTC)

From further afield

• 🇳🇱 Residents of the Netherlands might like to consider Rail and Sail tickets, from any NS station in the Netherlands to any rail station in Anglia, including Cambridge, and the ferry to get you there, for £49 single. (Anyone from 52,0 or 52,1 fancy making the opposite journey?) :-P Tongs (talk) 16:44, 21 December 2015 (EST)
• 🇫🇷🇧🇪 Eurostar high-speed rail services terminate in London St Pancras station, just over the road from London Kings Cross station. A train from Kings Cross at the weekend costs around £10 and reaches Cambridge, where some hashers will be setting out from, in around 50 minutes.

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Yea! I've fixed the map. It no longer shows the Sahara in Algeria! --Sourcerer (talk) 16:11, 21 December 2015 (EST)

Great! It looks much better now. Tongs (talk) 16:29, 21 December 2015 (EST)

Invitation template

I have converted the invitation text into a template. When we update the template, the changes will now appear in multiple places on the wiki. --Sourcerer (talk) 06:49, 1 January 2016 (EST)

Noob Section

Hey.. so er.. is it the intention to meet at 4:00pm GMT? --ChromeCrusaders (talk) 09:01, 15 May 2016 (UTC)

Well, not GMT because we're in British Summer Time now, but 4pm local time. At least I think so... Tongs (talk) 15:55, 14 May 2016 (UTC)

 : 4pm Local Time it is then... unless we agree otherwise? :)