User:Q-Owl

69 / m / 49,8

About Me

I like Geocaching since 2011 and I discovered geohashing 2013-09-25.

My home graticule is Mannheim, Germany (see today's point on the peeron map). Meetups in this graticule: meetups.

My Homepage: www.KlickTipps.de with a special geohashing page: www.KlickTipps.de/geohashing.php

Expeditions

reached

• 2014-10-05 48 7: In a little wood between Bouxwiller and Ingwiller (Alsace, France).
• 2014-09-27 49 8: In the Odenwald near Fränkisch-Crumbach.
• 2014-09-08 49 7: In the Palatinate Forest near the Luitpold Tower.
• 2014-07-17 49 8: On a forest aisle half way between Lorsch and Neuschloss.
• 2014-06-27 49 8: In front of the Viernheim Bowling Center.
• 2014-05-12 49 8: In a wood near Bensheim-Hochstädten.
• 2014-04-20 49 8: On a dyke with bicycle path near Biebesheim.
• 2014-03-29 49 8: On a vineyard near Nierstein not far from the Rhine.
• 2013-12-11 49 8: In the southern part of Darmstadt: Rüthleinweg/Edith-Stein-Weg.
• 2013-11-14 49 8: A meadow with apple trees near Einhausen.
• 2013-10-25 49 8: Not to far from home and near a geocache which I could not log in april.
• 2013-09-27 49 8: Three days after creating my account at XKCD I had the chance to visit my first geohash only a few kilometers away from home.

not reached

• 2014-06-05: In the wood southeast of Lampertheim - but too ill to start an expedition

Plans and ideas

• Visit my birthdayhash 1955-11-28 49 8
• Meet up with other geohashers
• Cross the border to: France (specially to the little French triangle in 49,8)
• Cross the border to: Swizerland, Austria and other countries
• Get some different achievements

Achievements

(first occurrence, newest first)

Transportation

Q-Owl earned the Bicycle geohash achievement by cycling 4 km to and from the (49, 8) geohash on 2014-07-17.

Q-Owl earned the Ferry Achievement by using a ferry on the way to the hash or back (49, 8) geohash on 2014-03-29.

Q-Owl earned the Land geohash achievement by reaching the (49, 8) geohash on 2013-09-27.

Interaction Achievements

Q-Owl earned the Meet-up achievement by meeting Tads at the (49, 8) geohash on 2014-09-27.

Q-Owl earned the Drag-along achievement by dragging Q-Owla to the (49, 7) geohash on 2014-09-08.

DODO, Danatar, Rincewind&Yakamoz and Q-Owl earned the Avoid Each Other Achievement by launching four independent expeditions without meeting up at the (49, 8) geohash on 2014-04-20.

Other Achievements

Q-Owl achieved level 2 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement by visiting coordinates in Mannheim, Germany and 2 of the surrounding graticules.

Q-Owl earned the 1st Hashiversary achievement by attempting a hash point exactly on the 1st anniversary of his inaugural geohashing expedition.

Q-Owl earned the Déjà Vu Geohash Achievement by reaching the (49, 8) geohash on 2014-07-17, and previously on 2012-12-11.

Q-Owl earned the Circus Geohash Achievement by juggling a diabolo at the (49, 8) geohash on 2013-11-14.

PHP

I like programming PHP. If you need a nice little PHP function to link from your own homepage to the geohashes of a certain day in the past, here it is:

  function geohashing_textlink( $my_date = -1 , $klasse = "" ){
      /* a text link to a special day 
         Parameters: $my_date (optional):  2 the day after tomorrow
                                           1 tomorrow
                                           0 today
                                          -1 yesterday and so on
                                          -2 the day before yesterday 
                     $klasse (optional):   CSS Class for the link */

      $complete_date 
          = mktime(0, 0, 0, date("m"), date("d") + $my_date, date("Y"));   

      //check inputs
      if ( $my_date > 3 ){ $my_date = 0; }
      $klasse = trim( $klasse ); 

      //build link
      $text   =  date("j.n.Y" , $complete_date );  
 
      $outp  = "<a href=\"http://wiki.xkcd.com/geohashing/";
      $outp .= date("Y-n-j" , $complete_date ) . "\"";
      $outp .= " target=\"_blank\"" ;

      if ( $klasse != "" ){ $outp .= " class=\"" . $klasse . "\""; }

      $outp .= " >" . $text .  "</a>" ;

      return( $outp );
  }

Other Version with Date as input:

  function geohashing_textlink2( $my_year , $my_month , $my_day , $klasse = "" ){
      /* a text link to a special day 
         Parameters: Year, Month and Day
                     $klasse (optional):   CSS Class for the link */
      $complete_date 
          = mktime(0, 0, 0, $my_month, $my_day, $my_year);   

      //... continue like the function above