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I live in Winchester. I am most likely to be found geohashing in the Southampton, Swindon, Weymouth or London West graticules. I holiday in Köln, Germany once or twice a year, so i'll always be on the look out for the opportunity to geohash in Germany whilst i'm there!

About me

me and my google pin

Real name: aimee.
I like to spell my name in lower case.
I use linux and mac osx and i will very likely use google chrome OS whenever it is available. windows can die.
I now have an Android phone. Google is totally rocking my world at the moment!
I've been typing on dvorak keyboard layout since around 2005.
I'm a bit of a typography geek. Let's just say i can tell the difference between Helvetica and Arial. One i love and one i hate. But not as much as i hate Comic Sans, which seems to pop up almost everywhere i go!
I'm a web programmer by profession and hobby.
I am currently writing an application called Active Geohasher which will allow you to subscribe to graticules and be notified of their locations by daily email.
I made my own google pin which i take to most geohashes.
I love geohashing because it encourages me to visit places that i would not otherwise get to see. the fact that it's entirely random does not seem to matter to me!
I have grown to love mediawiki through using this wiki!
contact details
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Talk to me! click here to start a new topic on my talk page

Map of geohashes

a map of Sermoa's xkcd geohashes (green for coordinates reached; red for coordinates not reached)

I have been on 17 geohashes in 4 graticules and met 12 other geohashers.

Sermoa achieved level 3 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement

by visiting coordinates in Swindon, United Kingdom and 3 of the surrounding graticules.

	-2	-1	-0
52	-	-	-
51	-	5	1
50	2	9	-

Table of geohashes

#	Date	Location	Comments	Achievements
001	2009-05-30	Kensington Road, Gosport	My first ever geohash, all by myself.
002	2009-06-28	Hedge End recreation ground	I met Macronencer for the first time. Music, juggling and rubik's cube solving.	Drag-along achievement (Laura)
003	2009-07-27	Duttons Road, Romsey	A nice evening out with Macronencer including a pub meal.
004	2009-08-08	Portland Beach, Weymouth	A lovely sunny Saturday meetup. My first geohash outside of the Southampton graticule.
005	2009-08-15	Bierley, Isle of Wight	A great day out on the Isle of Wight with Macronencer and DavidMiller. We were treated to some beautiful scenery.	Drag-along achievement (DavidMiller)
006	2009-08-30	Barton Farm, Winchester	The geohash landed at the car park of my place of work, giving me a Cubicle geohash achievement! Cause for a party at my office! :D It was also my first geohash in my home graticule.
007	2009-09-10	Litchfield, Hampshire	This was a Midnight Geohash meticulously planned by Macronencer who took me and Mapaholic. It was fun creeping through the tiny village late at night.
008	2009-09-13	Hilsea, Portsmouth	A fun geohash near Hilsea train station. The first geohash where i met another geohasher unexpectedly. Juggling, fire staff, cake, and a bit of public attention too!
009	2009-09-20	Poole, Dorset	I finally got to meet Mahahahaneapneap and 04housemat! We didn't spend long at the geohash point but we went on to Poole Park for juggling and a picnic!
010	2009-09-27	Eastleigh	A fun and slightly challenging geohash near the railway station, including meeting Davidc, Dee and JonRead :)
011	2009-09-29	Ashmansworth, Hampshire	A successful speed racer geohash with Macronencer. Funny video evidence to go with it!
012	2009-10-02	Highmoor Cross, near Reading	International meetup with visitors Thepiguy and Srs0. A nice walk, coordinates reached, fun trip out, and pub afterwards. My first geohash in 51,-0 - but only just! - it was just over the longitude border at -0.999! Still, it gave me level 3 minesweeper! :)
013	2009-10-03	Winchester, Hampshire	A great saturday meetup with Thepiguy, Srs0, Mapaholic and DavidMiller and family. A field geohash, with an excellent ambassador Farmer Nicholas. Followed by a retro geohash to the Barton Farm cubicle geohash and an abduction of Pi and Steven to come home and eat pizza and ice cream!
014	2009-10-13	Chandlers Ford, Hampshire	A quick geohash with Macronencer in a dark narrow track road near Chandlers Ford Asda after work.
015	2009-10-23	Hockley, Winchester, Hampshire	A very quick lunchtime geohash with a drag-along work colleague. Shame i missed Mike's marker, but David found it later in the day!	Drag-along achievement (Richard)
016	2009-10-24	Hythe, Hampshire	A solo geohash to within 40 metres of a geohash in Southampton Water near Hythe.
017	2009-10-31	Long Crichel, Dorset	Halloween geohash with Mapaholic, Macronencer and pumpkins!
018	2010-05-28	Hursley, Hampshire	At last! I manage my first geohash of 2010! A midnight geohash with drag-along Durantelo and Mapaholic	Drag-along achievement (Durantelo) Mother Nature's Bitch consolation prize

Extrapolating

At this rate, by May 2011 i'll be able to geohash in every graticule in the world!

The actual numbers of geohashes i have done per month are as follows:

2009

May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct
1	1	1	3	5	6

People i have met whilst geohashing

Includes people i already knew and dragged/tricked along, plus new people i have met thanks to the adventures of geohashing!

Macronencer
Laura
DavidMiller
Mapaholic
Maoi-taoi
Mahahahaneapneap and 04housemat
Dee, JonRead and davidc
Thepiguy and Srs0
DavidMiller's family and ambassador Farmer Nicholas!
Richard, a drag-along colleague
Phillip, first mate on the Hythe Ferry, a friend of geohashers!

Monica

Monica is my hashscot. Monica is short for mononucleosis, also known as the kissing disease. This makes sense when you know that monica is a giant microbe of the kissing disease!

Monica the kissing disease
Monica's natural habitat at home
Monica at Hedge End
Monica at Portland beach
Monica enjoying Bierley on the Isle of Wight
At Barton Farm, Winchester with Macronencer's Chuck.
Monica being overwhelmed by the huge playing field at Hilsea, Portsmouth
Monica at Fernside Avenue in Poole, Dorset
Monica and Chuck trying not to get too dirty at Eastleigh
Monica with Chuck and Murray at a geohash in Highmore Cross, near Reading
Monica and Murray in a field between Winchester and Sparsholt
Monica at Hockley, with the view of Winchester
Monica in Hythe near Southampton Water
Monica with my pumpkin at Long Crichel

Helping visitors to the geohashing wiki

The poster used at 2009-09-27 50 -1 which generated a response. I am still in the process of refining the format.

I am very keen to make the geohashing wiki as easy as possible for members of the public to use to interact with us weird and wonderful geohashers! I like to leave a poster at the geohash where possible, and on 2009-09-27 50 -1 i experimented with a more detailed poster, in combination with a callout box on the wiki expedition page inviting people to comment on the talk page. I added instructions for the easiest way to leave a comment, explaining that you don't have to be registered on the wiki. The result was, we got a message from some kids who had seen us putting up the poster!

Encouraged by this success, davidc made a template which i have now added to my other expedition pages where i left markers. I would encourage other people to do the same, because it is great to have feedback from general members of the public!

Use {{Advert}} at the top of your expedition page.
Create the Talk page for the expedition and use {{Advert}} to provide instructions.
Generate a short URL for the expedition page using bit.ly or tinyurl.com.
Customise the short URL to avoid any ambiguity of numbers that could be mistaken for letters.
Create a QR (Quick Response) code of the short URL for mobile devices at qrcode.kaywa.com.
Add the short URL and the QR code to a poster which you leave at the geohash.
After the expedition, you can add a photo of the marker to the Advert template. Like so:

{{Advert | image = 2009-10-23_51_-1HPIM2093-DavidMiller.JPG }}

The QR code is for mobile devices to scan. It's best to use the short URL because then the QR code is smaller and easier to scan. It's also good to use the small size setting, especially if you're putting it on a lamp-post. If it's too big, it will curve too much and the devices won't be able to scan it. I made this mistake once.

It would be really good to have a mobile version of the geohashing wiki. When you visit Wikipedia on a mobile there is a special version optimized for small screens. Ours is not like this - it's much harder to read. Maybe all we need is a different stylesheet. I'll look into it.

Long-term geohashing intentions

Sermoa UK regions

In the course of my life time would love to visit every graticule in the UK. I realise there are some very remote Scottish islands so it may not be possible, but i quite like the idea of going on holiday in different places around the UK and trying my best to visit a geohash while i'm there.

See the region map for how i'm doing on this aim. The flags are graticules where i've been geohashing. The green flag is my home graticule.

With thanks to User:Hessophanes/Regiohashing

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+| [[Image:Drag-along2.png|35px|Drag-along achievement (Durantelo)]] [[Image:Midnightgeohash.png|35px|Midnight Geohash]] [[Image:MNB Ribbon.jpg|35px|Mother Nature's Bitch consolation prize]]
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