2024-03-30 50 8

Sat 30 Mar 2024 in 50,8: 50.0043165, 8.6374159 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

In a forest area, about 30 meters away from the closest track road, in Offenbach county, Hesse, Germany. The closest settlement is Neurott (a suburb/quarter of Langen) in southeast direction.

This day’s weather: completely clouded

Participants

• Green guy! (talk)
• Green guy!’s mother (no consent to publish photos of her)
• Green guy!’s father (no consent to publish photos of him)

Plans

Not in the mood for thorough planning, so it’s quick and dirty:

1. Drive to Neurott in the afternoon
   • Might be a bit difficult to park our car there …
2. Go on a walk to visit the hashpoint
3. Visit a nearby cafe and/or do the groceries
4. Drive back home
5. (Enjoy the rest of Holy Saturday)

Expedition

My parents and I drove to the quarter of Neurott. As expected, it was a bit tricky to find a spot to park our car there, but we were successful after a short while.

It was also a bit tricky to find a spot to actually leave the residential area and enter the forest, as OpenStreetMap shows quite a lot of barriers. We found a way and successfully walked to the hashpoint, reaching coordinates a few minutes after 4 pm CET. (I’m mentioning the time zone because the kind-of-useless CEST, better known as daylight-savings time, takes effect the next day.) While walking back to our car, I had the opportunity to trace a path which is not mapped yet in OpenStreetMap. Also, I surveyed another spot that didn’t look possible to trespass due to a construction site, but actually was.

After finishing our expedition, we felt like enjoying some cake and/or ice cream in a café in Langen. My parents opted for the family-operated EisAnita which offers home-made pastry and ice cream, and so we drove there. Because it was still March, there was no ice cream available, so we savored coffee and cake. It was a calm and nice place.

Tracklog: Walking to the hashpoint

• Direction: south => north for a while => west => north (reaching hashpoint) => south => east (via a path not mapped yet in OSM) => south => east
• GPS accuracy: medium–good
• Markers show all locations where I took photos (including some photos taken separate from the tracklog) – nearly all of them are taken for OpenStreetMap surveying and not uploaded here.

Pictures

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  Almost at the hashpoint

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  Coordinates reached

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  The hashpoint’s forest floor

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  Funny grin

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  A slice of home-made marble cake at EisAnita, accompanied by a glass of freshly squeezed orange juice

Achievements

Recurring

I already earned these from an earlier geohash, but fulfilled the conditions again on this one.

Green guy! (talk) earned the Land geohash achievement by reaching the (50, 8) geohash on 2024-03-30.

And no, drag-along doesn’t count as recurring because my parents are now sort-of familiar with the concept of geohashing (apart from not comprehending the Algorithm’s details).