User:Klaus

36 / m / 48,9

My home coordinates are plusminus 48.53,9.06 in the city of Tuebingen, Germany. I was born and lived for a long time in 49,11 and still am there from time to time.

I plan to geohash mostly by bicycle, but will make short detours (less than 5km one way), if a geohash is near to a route I'm driving by car anyway.

Geohashes

Finally I started with geohashing after years of just watching and checking the coordinates like once every few months :)

	reached	date	weekday	description
01	yes	2015-05-17 48 8	Sunday	on a field in Neustetten, Rottenburg
02	yes	2015-06-12 48 9	Friday	very near to the area of the golf club "Schönbuch"
03	yes	2015-07-12 48 11	Sunday	Grünwald, München
retro	yes	2015-07-17	Friday	my origin geohash, see 1988-10-04 49 11
04	yes	2015-08-16 48 8	Sunday	on a field south of Wurmlingen
05	yes	2015-08-28 48 9	Friday	northwest of Bebenhausen in Schönbuch
06	yes	2015-09-11 48 9	Friday	on a rail track in Reutlingen! new achievements :)
07	yes	2015-10-19 48 9	Monday	northwest of Bebenhausen in Schönbuch (again!)
08	no	2015-11-01 48 11	Sunday	on a soccer field in Perlach, München
09	yes	2015-11-03 48 11	Tuesday	Haldenseestraße, München

Achievements

Only the first ribbon is listed for achievements I acquired more than once.

Easy ones

Klaus earned the Land geohash achievement by reaching the (48, 8) geohash on 2015-05-17.

• 2015-05-17 48 8
• 2015-06-12 48 9
• 2015-07-12 48 11
• 2015-08-16 48 8
• 2015-08-28 48 9
• 2015-09-11 48 9
• 2015-10-19 48 9
• 2015-11-03 48 11

Klaus earned the Bicycle geohash achievement by cycling 42km to and from the (48, 8) geohash on 2015-05-17.

• 2015-05-17 48 8 (42km)
• 2015-06-12 48 9 (36km)
• 2015-08-28 48 9 (18km)
• 2015-10-19 48 9 (18km)

Klaus earned the Public transport geohash achievement by reaching the (48, 11) geohash on 2015-07-12 via S8, S7, bus 25 and U1.

• 2015-07-12 48 11
• 2015-09-11 48 9
• 2015-11-03 48 11

Klaus earned the Origin geohash achievement by reaching the (49, 11) geohash for 1988-10-04 on 2015-07-17.

• 1988-10-04 49 11

Klaus earned the No trespassing consolation prize by almost (35m) reaching the (48, 11) geohash on 2015-11-01.

• 2015-11-01 48 11

Klaus earned the Formal attire achievement by looking good at the (48, 11) geohash on 2015-11-03.

• 2015-11-03 48 11

not so easy ones

Klaus earned the Admit One Achievement

by paying 5.80 EUR to access the (48, 9) geohash at the northern railway track belonging to "Deutsche Bahn" from Reutlingen to Tuebingen on 2015-09-11.

• 2015-09-11 48 9

Klaus earned the Déjà Vu Geohash Achievement by reaching the (48, 9) geohash on 2015-09-11, and previously on 2015-07-19.

• 2015-09-11 48 9

People met during Geohashing

• Ekorren after my trip to 2015-09-11 48 9

Minesweeper

Klaus achieved level 1 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement by visiting coordinates in 48,9 and 1 of the surrounding graticules.

Klaus achieved level 1 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement by visiting coordinates in 48,8 and 1 of the surrounding graticules.

Klaus achieved level 0 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement by visiting coordinates in 48,11 and 0 of the surrounding graticules.

For an over view see the map: http://xkcd.nathanwoodruff.com/GooMapXKCDKlaus.htm or use the table below. It contains the first successful hash for each graticule. I only included graticules for the moment for which I know I'll be travelling through or staying at least for a few days per year and thus there is a small possibility to get them, if the algorithm is kind enough! Those with brackets are quite unlikely :(

		(50,10)	(50,11)
	49,9	49,10	49,11
48,8	48,9	(48,10)	48,11

Furthermore, I'm travelling for work sometimes, so I might be able to get some other graticules mostly in Germany, too.

Bash Script

As I always forget to look up the coordinates, I hacked this (very ugly) bash script to let a daily cronjob inform me per email, whenever a geohash is near to me:

#!/bin/bash

maxdistance=15

a=$(curl 'http://tjum.anthill.de/cgi-bin/geohash.cgi?lat=48.53&lon=9.06&nr=1&map=0&size=240x240&t=&date=&unit=km' 2>/dev/null |
iconv -f 'iso8859-1' -t 'utf8' |
sed  's/<br>/\n/g' |
sed 's/ / /g' |
fgrep 'km' |
cut -d ':' -f2 |
cut -d 'k' -f1 | 
sort -n |
head -n 1 |
cut -d '.' -f 1)

echo $a

if [ $a -lt $maxdistance ]
then
	echo 'http://tjum.anthill.de/cgi-bin/geohash.cgi?t=1&nr=o&unit=km&zoom=11%2F5&zoom=8%2F2&type=roadmap&lat=48.53&lon=9.06&size=240x240' | 
	mail -s "geohash is near to tuebingen ($a)" USERNAME
fi

I just parses the small hash inquiry tool from Ekorren in the most complicated way and sends the mail via a local mailserver :)