Talk:Expedition

This page is a little confusing, because it starts out talking about an expedition page, and then somehow crosses over into being a graticule page. I came for the graticule template, and ideas on what to put in an expedition page, was going "huh, why would an expedition page have sections called "About" and "Expeditions"? Maybe "Planning," "En Route," and "At the Geohash" or something like that. If I'm confused (and I've made lots of expedition pages) someone making their first expedition page might be really confused.

I suspect the graticule map code was cut and pasted and you accidentally pasted some of the wrong text.

A Cut and Paste "fill in the blanks" boilerplate for an expedition page would be great.

Now re-reading the page I realize that it isn't a graticule page. It does make sense, but it's still confusing from the point of view of someone who has never been to a single geohash that had multiple expeditions. -Robyn 15:32, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

We do need a blank template of a graticule page also. I'll add a little intro paragraph to hopefully save others from mass confusion. --Thomcat 15:58, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

I don't have outgoing e-mail right now (the joys of motel living) so I'll reply here.

I love the sample page. That would have helped me so much when I started. I made a blog instead, because I didn't "get" expedition pages right off.

I figured out what confused me so on first reading, and it's still there. It's the single sentence: "The second section contains the date for the individual expeditions." Al the expeditions should be on the same date for an expedition page. Did you mean "data for the individual expeditions"? Perhaps "contains descriptions of the various geohashers' experiences reaching the coordinates" but that's a little verbose.

I guess you can work on the wiki while your code is compiling. Unless you have a swordfight to attend. -Robyn 17:39, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

data, it was supposed to be data. Durn font! Reworded yet again, anyways, as overkill is the finest form of destruction. --Thomcat 18:04, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

Current wording is beautiful. Amazing how one letter changed the meaning of the whole page for me! -Robyn 21:34, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

How close to the geohash do you have to get? It occurred to me that 1 degree longitude is 111 kilometer, so 0.001 on a GPS is still 111m, I think the goal was 10m, but I don't remember where I saw that. I also had another question about water geohashes, but I forget exactly what it was. -- Jevanyn 18:42, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

I found the answer in Talk:Main page. I'll paste the bulk of that conversation into this page for reference to future generations -- Jevanyn