User:Green guy!

Hello, I’m an autistic 21-year old from Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany.

On January 22, 2024, I turned 21 years old and discovered the concept of geohashing via the Wikipedia article on xkcd – I like xkcd and Randall Munroe’s books a lot … this is the stuff that really sparks my fantasy and passion! One day later, I visited the Geohashing Wiki and geohashing.info for the first time and discovered a new passion of mine.

Update from October 2024: My interest in geohashing has declined somewhat as there are a lot of other interests of mine that I want to invest time in. These include:

• my work (which involves computer programming),
• listening to music (after applying various effects to it in Audacity),
• watching and editing my favorite movie,
• reading TV Tropes.

Update from December 2024: From December 1 onwards, I’m not going to write any reports because it is a tedious and convoluted task which causes severe stress and eats up a lot of my time (the report takes longer than the expedition itself!) that I rather spend doing things which are more fun!

Links

• OpenStreetMap profile

Geohashing log

Geohash	Coordinates reached?		Companions	Location	Activities (in order)
2024-02-02 49 8	✅ yes		👨‍👩‍👦 my parents	🅿️ parking lot near Roßdorf	🚶 going for a walk, 🍽 dinner with 🍕 pizza at restaurant
2024-02-25 49 8	✅ yes		👨‍👩‍👦 my parents	🌳 forest and nature reserve near Traisa	🍽 lunch with 🍛 chicken sweet-and-sour at restaurant, 🚶 going for a walk to reach the hashpoint
2024-03-03 49 9	✅ yes		👨 Manuel 👨‍👩‍👦 my parents	🚜 edge of field next to river, near Stockstadt am Main	🍽 lunch with 🍕 pinsa at restaurant, 🚶 going for a walk to reach the hashpoint
2024-MAR10 49 8	✅ yes		👨‍👩‍👦 my parents	🪨 retaining wall next to road in Niedernhausen, Fischbachtal	🍽 lunch with 🍛 chicken korma at restaurant, 🚶 going for an exhausting, uphill walk to visit 🏰 castle
2024-03-30 50 8 on Holy Saturday	✅ yes		👨‍👩‍👦 my parents	🌳 forest near Neurott, Langen	🚶 going for a walk to reach the hashpoint, 🍰 marble cake at café
2024-04-13 49 8	✅ yes		👨‍👩‍👦 my parents	🪨 rocky slope in 🌳 forest near Reichenbach (Felsenmeer)	🚶 going for a short walk and rock climb to reach the hashpoint, 🍽 late lunch with pork schnitzel and 🍟 fries at guesthouse
2024-04-21 50 8	✅ yes		👨‍👩‍👦 my parents	🚜 field near Okarben, Wetterau	🍽 lunch with 🍕 pizza at restaurant, 🚶 quickly walking through field to reach the hashpoint
2024-05-23 39 8	❌ no	⛔️ private property	👨‍👩‍👦 my parents 🚖 taxi driver	🏡 allotments near Santa Barbara, Province of Cagliari, Sardinia	🚕 taking a detour while going by taxi to approach the hashpoint
2024-06-29 49 8	✅ yes		👨‍👩‍👦 my parents	🌳 dense forest near Weiterstadt	🧭 slowly working our way through thicket to reach the hashpoint
2024-07-13 50 8 (feat. Monotof)	✅ yes		👨‍👩‍👦 my parents	🚶 footway in 🏘 residential area of Oberursel (Taunus)	🍽 lunch with 🍕 pinsa at restaurant, 🚶 going for a walk to reach the hashpoint and, afterwards, through a park
2024-07-22 49 8	✅ yes		👨‍👩‍👦 my parents	🌾 meadow with 🐄 cattle near Fürth, Bergstraße	🚶 going for a short walk to reach the hashpoint, 🍽 lunch with 🍕 pizza at restaurant
2024-07-24 49 8	❌ no	🫡 respecting the area	👨‍👩‍👦 my parents	🚜 turnip field near Groß-Zimmern	🚶 going for a 3 km walk to approach the hashpoint, 🍽 dinner with 🍕 too much pizza at restaurant
2024-10-03 50 8	✅ yes		👨‍👩‍👦 my parents	🚶 foot-/cycleway in 🏘 residential area of Jügesheim (Rodgau)	🚶 reaching the hashpoint and going for a short walk, 🍽 lunch with 🍕 pizza at restaurant, 🚶 going for another walk
2024-10-14 50 8 (feat. GeorgDerReisende)	❌ no	💧 unexpected river	👨‍👩‍👦 my parents	💧 river surrounded by 🌳 trees at edge of Dreieichenhain (Dreieich)	🍽 lunch with pork schnitzel at restaurant, 🚶 going for a walk to approach the hashpoint and to visit 🏰 castle ruins
2024-11-20 49 8	❌ no	⛔️ no trespassing	👨‍👦 my father	🏠 service building next to 🛒 supermarket in Darmstadt	🚶 going for a walk to approach the hashpoint
2024-12-01 49 8	✅ yes		👨‍👦 my father	🚜 edge of field at the foot of a shrub-covered earth bank, near Ober-Ramstadt	🚶 going for a walk to reach the hashpoint

Last update: December 4, 2024

Statistics

• Total number of expeditions: 16
  • Coordinates reached: 12
  • Coordinates not reached: 4
    • No trespassing: 3 (out of 100)
• Consecutive months with coordinates reached: 3 (February–April 2024)
  • Unfortunately, May 2024 destroyed the streak as it was a busy time in my life and the one expedition in that month was No trespassing.
  • Current streak: 1 (since December 2024)
  • Not interested at all in extending this streak to a full year …
• Drag-alongs: 3 people
  • my mother
  • my father
  • my friend Manuel

Graticules with coordinates reached

• Number of graticules: 4 (out of 100)
• Number of Minesweeper surrounding graticules: 2 (out of 8)
• Graticules in a row: 2 (any direction)

Longitude → Latitude ↓	7	8	9
50	—	Frankfurt am Main, Germany	—
49	—	Mannheim, Germany (my home graticule)	Würzburg, Germany
48	—	—	—
47..40	—
39	—	Oristano, Italy	—

Achievements and other ribbons

Oldest to newest

2024

February 2024

Green guy! earned the Land geohash achievement by reaching the (49, 8) geohash on 2024-02-02.

Green guy! earned the Drag-along achievement by dragging his parents to the (49, 8) geohash on 2024-02-02.

Green guy! earned the OpenStreetMap achievement by contributing [1] [2] to OpenStreetMap based on their expedition to the (49, 8) geohash on 2024-02-25.

March 2024

Green guy! earned the Consecutive Bonza Bottler Day achievement by reaching 2 geohashes in consecutive months on dates where the day number equals the month number: The first occurrence was the 2024-02-02 49 8 geohash; the second occurrence is the (49, 9) geohash on 2024-03-03.

Green guy! earned the 2-in-a-row achievement by achieving a connection of 2 graticules in a row (49,8 to 49,9) after reaching the (49, 9) geohash on 2024-03-03.

Is it true that Green guy! earned the Meet-up achievement? In principle, yes. But (unfortunately) he neither got permission to take a photo with the foreign woman he met at the hashpoint, nor to mention her name here. Also, the person is not a geohasher. These circumstances deny him from getting the Meet-up achievement (with the Drag-along achievement not fitting either) on this expedition (2024-03-10 49 8).

Green guy! achieved level 2 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement by visiting coordinates in Mannheim, Germany and 2 of the surrounding graticules.

May 2024

Green guy! earned the No trespassing consolation prize by almost (about 70 m away) reaching the (39, 8) geohash on 2024-05-23.

June 2024

Green guy! earned the Two to the N achievement by reaching 23 hashpoints on 2024-06-29 49 8 and is promoted to Level 3 (Coordinates reached).

Green guy! earned the Thicket Ticks achievement by catching ticks in the thicket (and removing them later before they sucked blood) for the (49, 8) geohash on 2024-06-29.

October 2024

Green guy! earned the Vexillology achievement by spotting a flag while at the (50, 8) geohash on 2024-10-03.

(Does this still count, as I didn’t notice the flag on-site but captured it on photo anyway?)

Green guy! earned the My kingdom for a boat consolation prize by being prevented from reaching the (50, 8) geohash on 2024-10-14 by an impassable and unforeseen river that was incorrectly mapped as a (passable) waterway=stream in OpenStreetMap.

Green guy! earned the Sightseeing achievement by recreating a photograph from the Wikipedia page for de:Burg Hayn, which is near the (50, 8) geohash, on 2024-10-14.

December 2024

Green guy! earned the Two to the N achievement by attempting to reach 24 hashpoints on 2024-12-01 49 8 and is promoted to Level 4 (Expeditions).

No-no achievements

Green guy! is not going to earn the Bicycle geohash achievement because he is incapable of controlling a bike without severe risk of injuring himself.

Green guy! is unlikely to earn the Consecutive geohash achievement for reaching more than 2 consecutive hash points because expeditions and their reports take up a lot of time and energy, which doesn’t suffice for long streaks at the moment.

Green guy! is not interested in earning the Constant geohasher achievement by reaching coordinates for 12 months in a row because it is just too cumbersome for him.