Achievements

Three Geohashing Achievement Icons that can be earned.

As well as having the pure and genuine ecstasy of having reached a Geohash, many Geohashers like to complement those feelings with the joy of having won an achievement. There are many different kinds of achievements, ranging from unavoidable to statistically impossible.

Some are easily obtainable by just about anyone with time and persistence. The "I'm Better Than You" Achievements represent the literal and figurative pinnacles of the sport, showing current and past record holders for various extremes. Some achievements are merely comedic, not very attainable and unlikely to be achieved. For ease of browsing, they are arranged in sections, alphabetically within each section, with one-line descriptions. Click on the achievement names to see the details of each award and to claim your ribbon. An alphabetical list linking to all achievements by name, but without descriptions, is available on the Achievements Category page.

Be sure to click through and read the page describing an achievement before you claim it. Many of the requirements are not obvious from the names and/or short descriptions.

Location Achievements

Land Geohash

Everyone can earn one of the Basic Location achievement just by going to a geohash. You may need to wait a while, or go to another graticule for the right conditions to arise for a Lucky Location achievement however, and some require you to actually do something other than merely arrive at the location. Supply the proof of your achievement on your expedition page, and award yourself the appropriate ribbon. Some of these come with physical prizes also.

(Alphabetical within sub-category)

Basic Locations

Every geohash you reach qualifies for one of the Basic Location awards: Land, Water or Air. As altitude is not specified in the geohash algorithm, it's also possible for the same point to be reached through more than one medium. There are also a few special cases here, stretching the meaning of 'basic.'

• Air Geohash -- To geohash while in the air.
• Land Geohash -- For getting to a geohash on land. This is most people's first achievement.
  • Underground Geohash -- Reaching a geohash while underground
• Water Geohash -- Reaching a geohash that lies in water. Probably requires a boat
  • Underwater Geohash -- Reaching a geohash while underwater.
  • Walking on Water Geohash -- Being at geohash while on the surface of the water, on foot.

Lucky Locations

The ultimate in lucky locations would place the geohash right where you're sitting as you look it up, but then you wouldn't get to go on an adventure. Be alert for geohashes occurring places that would allow you or someone else to claim one of these achievements.

Couch Potato Geohash

• Admit One Geohash -- You pay a required admission fee for access to the geohash
• Coffin Potato Achievement -- Your coffin being located at the hash.
• Couch Potato Geohash -- Location is at your home
• Cross That Bridge Geohash -- You reach the coordinates while on a pre-existing bridge.
• Cubicle Geohash -- Location is at your office
• GeoSquishy Geohash -- Geohash falls near a vendor of flavoured slush drinks
• Golf Geohash -- The geohash falls at a golf course, and you cause a golf ball to land at the geohash point.
• Pub Geohash -- Having a pint with your geohash
• Hash Collision -- Find an already existing geocache at a geohash.
• Holy Hash -- Location is at a sacred place
• Phonebooth Stuffing Geohash -- Fitting many geohashers into a phonebooth
• Restricted Area Geohash -- Area requires special clearance which you just happen to have.
• Speed Racer Geohash -- Pass through a Geohash on a drivable road at the maximum legal speed

Activities & Attire Achievements

These achievements commemorate what you do, wear, or don't wear en route to or at the geohash.

Getting There

Border Geohash

You have to get to the geohash somehow, and the spirit of adventure encourages you to get out of your car and use alternative transport. Most of these achievement descriptions include a page where you can list the distance you travelled to get to the hash.

• Beast of Burden Geohash -- Reaching the geohash under the power of one or more living, non-human animals
• Bicycle Geohash -- Going by bike. For travel by unicycle see Circus Geohash
• Border Geohash -- Crossing a frontier to reach a meet
• MacGyver Geohash -- Geohash is reached in an improvised vehicle built especially for that hash.
• Maker Geohash -- The geohash is reached in a vehicle built largely or entirely by the geohasher.
• Proxy Geohash -- Using a device to reach the Geohash instead of (or in addition to) the Geohasher(s)
• Public Transport Geohash -- Taking only the bus, train, subway, or other mass transit
• Puppet Master Geohash -- Causing a non-geohasher to reach the geohash and return with proof
• Speed Racer Geohash -- Driving through a road-located hash at maximum possible/legal speed
• Thumbs Up Geohash -- Hitchhiking
• Walk Geohash -- Walking all the way to the geohash

Geohash Fun & Games

Geohashers are enouraged to play games at the geohash or at a nearby safe location. Some of them will even earn you ribbons.

Snowman Geohash

• Buccaneer Geohash -- Geohash in pirate attire, hire some crew, and sail the seven seas!
• Calendar Girl -- Take a "stylish" photo at the hash.
• Circus Geohash -- Display any kind of circus skill at a geohash
• Formal Attire Geohash -- Going to your Geohash in formal attire!
• Geoflashing -- AKA birthday suit geohash.
• GeoSquishy Geohash -- Various geoSquishy related achievements
• Geotrash Geohash -- Respect the Geohash point and pick up litter
• Hashcard achievement -- Send a postcard of the geohash to a geohasher, while geohashing
• Media Attention Geohash -- Receive media coverage of your geohashing expedition
• No Batteries Geohash -- Reach coordinates using compass and/or sextant.
• Picnic Geohash -- Have a picnic meal at the geohash
• Sex Geohash -- Get laid at the geohash
• Snowman Geohash -- Build a Snowman at the geohash
• Twister Geohash -- Playing twister or encountering a tornado or both

Challenge Achievements

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MNIMB Geohash

Into every geohash some rain--or raptors--may fall. The challenges in this section commemorate reaching geohashes regardless of external or self-imposed challenges.

Single Geohash Challenges

• Camping Geohash -- Stay overnight, in a simple shelter.
• Drowned Rat Geohash -- Reach coordinates during significant rain, through swimming, or by falling in water
• Frozen Geohash -- Reach coordinates where the ambient temperature is below 0C / 32F
• Globalhash -- travel to the one point on the globe generated by the geohash algorithm
• "Mother Nature is my Bitch" Geohash -- Up a mountain, down a valley, through the fire swamps. See also MNB
• No Batteries Geohash -- Reach coordinates using compass and/or sextant
• Velociraptor Geohash -- Reaching a geohash despite raptor attack

Multiple Geohash Challenges

• Consecutive Geohash -- Visit geohashes day after day in a row.
• Endurance Geohashing -- Geohash continuously for a week, without going home
• Globetrotters Geohash -- Visit coordinates on all continents
• Graticule Hopper -- Visit hashes in 100 different graticules
• Minesweeper Geohash -- Visit coordinates in any graticule, and in all eight surrounding graticules
• Multihash -- Visit more than one geohash on a given day.
• Regional Geohashing -- Visit a geohash in all graticules of an area.
• Reverse Regional -- Visit hashpoints in all regions of a graticule.
• Time-Traveller Geohash -- Visit two geohashes on the same day at the same local time
• XKCD-100 -- travel 100+ miles to make an XKCD meetup (Saturday 4pm geohash)
• XKCD Centurion -- Make 100 XKCD meetups (Saturday 4pm geohashes)

Human Interaction Achievements

Police Geohash

Never forget that Geohashing is intended as a way for people to meet. Whether you meet friendly curious strangers, hostile authority figures, or other geohashers, you have achieved something to celebrate.

• Abduction Geohash -- Convince someone you met at a geohash to come to your home
• Ambassador Geohash -- Obtaining permission from a property owner or institution to access what would otherwise be a No Trespassing Geohash.
• Drag-Along Geohash -- This can be achieved by introducing a friend to geohashing.
• Meet-Up Achievement -- Meet at least one complete stranger at the geohash
• Migration Geohash -- Meet up with more than 50 people at the geohash
• Police Geohash -- Encounter the police/park ranger/authority
• Sex Geohash -- Get laid at the geohash

Timing Achievements

Generally it doesn't matter what time you reach a geohash, but these achievements depend on time or date.

Daily Coordinates

• Birthday Geohash -- Celebrating your birthday at the geohash
• Déjà Vu Geohash -- You visit a geohash and have proof you were there on a previous day.
• First Geohasher Geohash -- Earliest arrival at the day's geohash for your graticule
• Last Man Standing -- Not your timing, but everyone else's: be the only geohasher in the world to report an expedition for that date.
• Midnight Geohash -- Visit the hash at midnight. <30W: Old day's hash, >30W: Hash announced for the new day. May be combined with endurance.
• Sunrise geohash -- Visit the hash at sunrise. May be combined with endurance.

Commemorative Dates

Achievements in every other section on this page represent visiting that day's coordinates in any graticule. Achievements in this section require you to visit coordinates for some date in the past. These are good possibilities for dates when you really feel like geohashing, but the algorithm has produced unreachable coordinates.

• Origin Geohash -- Visit the geohash in the graticule where you were born, for the day on which you were born.
• Displaced Origin Geohash -- Visit the geohash for the day on which you were born, in a graticule other than the one in which you were born.
• Wedding Anniversary Geohash -- Visit a geohash for the day of your wedding, either in the same or a different graticule.

Annual Events

Geohashing expeditions on particular dates may earn you a ribbon.

• Geohashing Day -- Go on a unique adventure on May 21st or the following Saturday.
• Birthday Geohash -- Reach the daily coordinates on your own actual birthday.

"I'm Better than You" Achievements

"I'm Better than you" Achievements represent extremes, that is the individuals or parties who have ventured to the highest mountain or the deepest cave, the coldest lake or the hottest desert to get a Geohash. These may require a level of toughness, or at least willingness to travel to a graticule that has these extremes. Others you receive just for being you. On each page there is a high score table, and if you're brave enough, it may finally be a way to immortalise that Internet alias you use.

NOTE: It is possible to achieve a "best of all the rest" geohash achievement for a particular date, only to be dethroned at a later time, when someone older/younger/taller/etc. takes the award. That's ok, you get to keep your achievement for that time. Just like Babe Ruth had the HR record, even though it's been broken since then.

Geographic

• Highest Geohash (currently 2929 m = 9610')
• Lowest Geohash (currently -5 m = -16')
• Most Easterly Geohash (currently 175.547533°E)
• Most Northerly Geohash (currently 64.912589°N)
• Most Westerly Geohash (currently 149°54'42.12" W)
• Most Southerly Geohash (currently 43.551502°S)
• Hottest Geohash (currently 42°C = 118°F)
• Coldest Geohash (currently -22.9 °C = -9.2 °F)
• Virgin Graticule -- Be the first to visit a hashpoint in a particular graticule.

Geohashers

• Oldest Geohasher -- You're never too old to geohash
• Youngest Geohasher -- Giving birth at the geohash ensures a ribbon for your child

"My Graticule is Better than yours" Achievements

• Most Active Graticules Achievement
• Most People at a Geohash Achievement

Ultimate Achievements

• Bill Gates Achievement -- In Capitalist America, you position the hash

Consolation Prizes

My Kingdom for a Boat

Despite all your preparation. hard work, and defense against raptors, sometimes you are unable to reach the correct location. You've still achieved something, however, and thanks to this section you can say to yourself, "at least I get a ribbon for this!" To earn these ribbons you must get out there and make the attempt, right up to the point where you cannot go on. It is not, for example, sufficient for the Cliffs of Despair award to look at the terrain contours in Google Maps and declare the grade impassable.

• Blinded by Science -- You travel to the wrong point because of mucking up the technology.
• Curse of Unawareness -- You reached a geohash without knowing it was there. And probably cannot prove it, either.
• It's a Kitty! -- You forget about the geohash because you become distracted (as by finding a cute kitten.)
• "Mother Nature's Bitch" Geohash -- Fail because of Mother Nature
  • My Kingdom for a Boat -- Your quest was ended by an unexpected body of water.
  • There Might be Alligators! -- The hash point lies in an unexpected marsh, bog, swamp or sewer which you don't dare to cross.
  • Cliffs of Despair -- Terrain too steep to continue
• Nanny -- You have to break off a quest to stay with a quitter.
• No Trespassing Geohash -- Forced to turn back because of signs forbidding access
• Prize Poultry -- Chickened out.
• Trail of Blood -- You or a member of your party is injured too badly to continue.
• Train wreck consolation prize -- You fail to reach the meet because of a transportation failure.

"There Should Be a Ribbon for This" Category

This category is to allow geohashers to commemorate things they have done or seen with colourful ribbons even when the thing they have done is not an achievement, is not provable and/or couldn't be done in enough graticules to make sense as an achievement. Award them to yourself. Award them to others. Have fun.

• Easy Geohash -- The geohash was so easy to reach you couldn't have not reached it in the course of your day.
• Gratuitous Ribbon -- Customize this ribbon for all your "do we get a ribbon for this?" needs.

If you see a ribbon on someone's page but there is no corresponding achievement listed on this page, that ribbon is probably a gratuitous ribbon.

Proof

It is recommended that you take photographic proof to demonstrate your achievement. This is, however, only important for proving to the community that you are an accomplished Geohasher and, for many, personal satisfaction is enough. For maximum recognition and commemoration, try to obtain one photograph including:

1. You! (The Stupid Grin^tm is optional.)

2. Something displaying the date

3. A Geosync device showing your location or alternatively

Something in the photo that proves your location.

A tracklog may also be submitted as evidence of your journey.

Particular achievements may require further or more stringent proof, specified on the individual achievement pages.

Ribbons

Most achievements include ribbons you can display on your user or expedition page. Just copy the template linked in the achievement to the page where you want to see it, and fill in the details.