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I have expeditions in  ...
 
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* [[http://wiki.xkcd.com/geohashing/London_East,_United_Kingdom London East (51 0)]],
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* [[http://wiki.xkcd.com/geohashing/Hull,_United_Kingdom Hull (53 -0)]],
* [[http://wiki.xkcd.com/geohashing/Cambridge,_United_Kingdom Cambridge (52 0)]] and
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* [[http://wiki.xkcd.com/geohashing/Skegness,_United_Kingdom Skegness (53 0)]],
* [[http://wiki.xkcd.com/geohashing/Norwich,_United_Kingdom Norwich (52 1)]], my home graticule.
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* [[http://wiki.xkcd.com/geohashing/Northampton,_United_Kingdom Northampton(52 -0)]],  
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* [[http://wiki.xkcd.com/geohashing/Cambridge,_United_Kingdom Cambridge (52 0)]],
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* [[http://wiki.xkcd.com/geohashing/Norwich,_United_Kingdom Norwich (52 1)]], my home graticule, and
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* [[http://wiki.xkcd.com/geohashing/London_East,_United_Kingdom London East (51 0)]].
  
[[2010-08-27 52 1]] - Under a big tree beside a sheep field, just off the narrow lane near Elsing, East Dereham.
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These are my expeditions ...
 
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* [[2010-09-04 52 0]] - Quad hash: 4 - In a sugar beet field a short way east of Royston.
[[2010-08-17 52 1]] - A nettle patch behind the sand dunes at Winterton on Sea. There is a GPS path on [http://www.wikiloc.com/wikiloc/view.do?id=1107693 WikiLoc].
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* [[2010-09-04 52 -0]] - Quad hash: 3 - In a residential street in Royston. I didn't even need to get out of the car. It would not have been safe to go for the speed racer achievement.
 
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* [[2010-09-04 53 -0]] - Quad hash: 2 - In a sweet corn field north west of Sibsey, Boston, Lincolnshire UK.
[[2010-08-13 52 1]] - A very short midnight walk. The aim was to watch the Perseid meteor storm. Neil spotted several trails. Logged at [http://www.wikiloc.com/wikiloc/view.do?id=1098344 WikiLoc].
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* [[2010-09-04 53 0]] - Quad hash: 1 - In a harvested wheat field just north of Sibsey, Boston, Lincolnshire UK. This was a virgin geohash.
 
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* [[2010-08-27 52 1]] - Under a big tree beside a sheep field, just off the narrow lane near Elsing, East Dereham.
[[2010-08-11 52 1]] - A five mile walk including the haspoint and a nice visit to the historic village of Laxfield. Logged at [http://www.wikiloc.com/wikiloc/view.do?id=1095231 WikiLoc].
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* [[2010-08-17 52 1]] - A nettle patch behind the sand dunes at Winterton on Sea. There is a GPS path on [http://www.wikiloc.com/wikiloc/view.do?id=1107693 WikiLoc].
 
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* [[2010-08-13 52 1]] - A very short midnight walk. The aim was to watch the Perseid meteor storm. Neil spotted several trails. Logged at [http://www.wikiloc.com/wikiloc/view.do?id=1098344 WikiLoc].
[[2010-08-10 51 0]] - A six mile walk including the haspoint and fine views over the River Crouch valley. Logged at [http://www.wikiloc.com/wikiloc/view.do?id=1093109 WikiLoc].
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* [[2010-08-11 52 1]] - A five mile walk including the haspoint and a nice visit to the historic village of Laxfield. Logged at [http://www.wikiloc.com/wikiloc/view.do?id=1095231 WikiLoc].
 
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* [[2010-08-10 51 0]] - A six mile walk including the haspoint and fine views over the River Crouch valley. Logged at [http://www.wikiloc.com/wikiloc/view.do?id=1093109 WikiLoc].
[[2010-08-07 52 0]] - At 4pm on Saturday 7th August 2010, I visited the co-ordinates of the day in the Cambridge UK graticule. No one else was there. This was my first ever geohash. It was an easy one, right beside a bridle path. Logged at [http://www.wikiloc.com/wikiloc/view.do?id=1085205 WikiLoc].
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* [[2010-08-07 52 0]] - At 4pm on Saturday 7th August 2010, I visited the co-ordinates of the day in the Cambridge UK graticule. No one else was there. This was my first ever geohash. It was an easy one, right beside a bridle path. Logged at [http://www.wikiloc.com/wikiloc/view.do?id=1085205 WikiLoc].
  
 
== My Achievements ==
 
== My Achievements ==

Revision as of 21:31, 4 September 2010

About Me

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My name is Neil.

I use the [peeron] calculator.

Is geohashing the ultimate "Nerd Snipe"?

My user name is a play on words based on computer source-code and is a tribute to controlled folly.

I enjoy computer programming and wrote an implementation of Conway's Game of Life in BASIC in 1972. The virtual creatures were printed on a paper roll by a mechanical teletype. Those were the days!

Later in 1976 I taught programming to school kids. We used Algol! We filled in coding forms and submitted them to be punched onto cards for the overnight run. The next day we'd get the error message print-outs or rarely a successful run.

More recently I have used HTML, DOM, PHP, MySQL, Javascript and Delphi.

One of my follies is to go geohashing. A totally pointless but pleasing activity. See Neil's [Big Walk] for some epic folly.

My Geohashes

I have expeditions in ...

These are my expeditions ...

  • 2010-09-04 52 0 - Quad hash: 4 - In a sugar beet field a short way east of Royston.
  • 2010-09-04 52 -0 - Quad hash: 3 - In a residential street in Royston. I didn't even need to get out of the car. It would not have been safe to go for the speed racer achievement.
  • 2010-09-04 53 -0 - Quad hash: 2 - In a sweet corn field north west of Sibsey, Boston, Lincolnshire UK.
  • 2010-09-04 53 0 - Quad hash: 1 - In a harvested wheat field just north of Sibsey, Boston, Lincolnshire UK. This was a virgin geohash.
  • 2010-08-27 52 1 - Under a big tree beside a sheep field, just off the narrow lane near Elsing, East Dereham.
  • 2010-08-17 52 1 - A nettle patch behind the sand dunes at Winterton on Sea. There is a GPS path on WikiLoc.
  • 2010-08-13 52 1 - A very short midnight walk. The aim was to watch the Perseid meteor storm. Neil spotted several trails. Logged at WikiLoc.
  • 2010-08-11 52 1 - A five mile walk including the haspoint and a nice visit to the historic village of Laxfield. Logged at WikiLoc.
  • 2010-08-10 51 0 - A six mile walk including the haspoint and fine views over the River Crouch valley. Logged at WikiLoc.
  • 2010-08-07 52 0 - At 4pm on Saturday 7th August 2010, I visited the co-ordinates of the day in the Cambridge UK graticule. No one else was there. This was my first ever geohash. It was an easy one, right beside a bridle path. Logged at WikiLoc.

My Achievements

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Sourcerer earned the Midnight Geohash achievement
by reaching the (52, 1) geohash on 2010-08-13 in the middle of the night.
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Sourcerer earned the Consecutive geohash achievement
by reaching 2 consecutive hash points starting on 2010-08-10.
Landgeohash.png
Sourcerer earned the Land geohash achievement
by reaching the (52, 0) geohash on 2010-08-07.
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Sourcerer earned the Juggernaut achievement
by reaching a geohash in a straight line (with a deviation less than 1:23) on 2010-08-07.

Big Walk

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Another folly is to walk from Cape St Vincent (Portugal) to Istanbul (Turkey). By the summer of 2010, after 130 days walking spread over 7 years, 1600 miles had been completed with about 5400 miles to go.

I'm not seriously expecting to complete this walk but that is all part of the folly. Walk Blog and Photo Gallery

You can download a [KML file] of Neil's walk for use with Google Earth. These paths are also logged at [WikiLoc].

This is what Google Earth looks like if you download the KML file. It makes more sense if you zoom in.