User:Q-Owl

69 / m / 49,8

marked hashpiont 2014-11-28

Q-Owla & Q-Owl 2014-09-27

About Me

I like geocaching since 2011, discovered geohashing 2013-09-25 and went to the first hash at 2013-09-27.

Home graticule: Mannheim, Germany (see today's point on the peeron map).

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

Age: I feel quite young, but it seems, that I am one of the ten oldest known active geohashers - see Geohashers_by_age.

Hardware: Dark blue VW Sharan, red bicycle, old Samsung S4, power stick (2.2 Ah), Gorilla mini camera tripod with bracket für the S4

Software: Geohash Droid, c:geo, OSM maps

Expeditions

Plan

... ...

reached

62. ... ...

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61. 2016-09-10 48 7: In a little swamp near Wœrth, Alsace, France (Saturday)
60. 2016-08-14 48 13: Between Helpfau-Uttendorf and Mattighofen, Austria
59. 2016-08-06 49 12: Near Oberviechtach in the district of Schwandorf
58. 2016-06-16 49 8: At the Rhine River near Groß-Rohrheim
57. 2016-06-07 49 8: In Reichenbach
56. 2016-05-19 49 8: Near Bonsweiher
55. 2016-05-16 50 9: Between Birstein and Steinau an der Straße
54. 2016-04-22 49 8: Near Undenheim
53. 2016-04-18 49 8: Near the road between Gernsheim and Allmendfeld
52. 2016-04-15 49 8: In the Odenwald near Modau.
51. 2016-04-11 49 8: Between Hemsbach and Hüttenfeld
50. 2016-04-01 49 8: Near Grünstadt
49. 2016-03-31 49 8: Near Darmstadt-Eberstadt
48. 2016-03-28 49 8: Near Stockstadt am Rhein
47. 2016-03-11 49 8: Next to a farm in Hemsbach-Balzenbach
46. 2016-02-29 50 8: A hashpoint near Idstein in the Taunus mountain range (Hesse)
45. 2016-01-08 49 8: A hashpoint in Bensheim
44. 2016-01-07 49 8: On a meadow near Einhausen
43. 2016-01-01 49 8: In a wood near Seeheim

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42. 2015-12-13 49 8: In a field between between Monsheim and Mölsheim
41. 2015-11-29 49 8: In a field between Alzey and Gau-Bickelheim
40. 1955-11-28 49 8: Retro origin hashpoint reached 2015-11-18 in an an orchard near Mainz
39. 2015-11-18 49 8: next to an orchard near Mainz-Finthen
38. 2015-11-07 49 8: In a field near Erfelden and Leeheim (Saturday)
37. 2015-10-30 49 8: In a field between Eich and the Rhine River
36. 2015-10-25 49 8: Near Schwanheim (a part of Bensheim)
35. 2015-10-24 49 8: Near the Kalmit mountain in the Palatinate Forest (Sa.)
34. 2015-10-18 49 8: In Weiher east of Mörlenbach in the Odenwald
33. 2015-09-18 49 8: Near Neunkirchen in the Odenwald
32. 2015-07-21 54 11: In Denmark on the island Lolland
31. 2015-05-20 49 8: Near Bensheim at the Hemsberg hill
30. 2015-05-09 49 8: In the forest very close to Darmstadt
29. 2015-05-08 49 8: Near Leutershausen on the western rim of the Odenwald (Sa.)
28. 2015-03-14 49 8: Near Wembach-Hahn in the Odenwald (Sa.)
27. 2015-03-13 49 8: In the middle of the Maudacher Bruch near Ludwigshafen
26. 2015-03-10 49 8: Between Hambach and Schannenbach in the Odenwald
25. 2015-02-01 49 8: In a little industrial estate in Goddelau
24. 2015-01-28 49 8: Near Wissembourg in the 0.1 % French part of this graticule
23. 2015-01-23 49 8: Between Eich and Hamm
22. 2015-01-22 49 8: Between Schifferstadt and Waldsee
21. 2015-01-21 49 8: West of Bickenbach near lake Erlensee
20. 2015-01-20 49 8: In the west of Alsbach
19. 2015-01-18 49 9: Near Neuenstadt am Kocher
18. 2015-01-12 49 9: In the Odenwald south of Bad König

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17. 2014-12-25 49 8: Near Malsch on a little meadow between apple trees
16. 2014-11-28 49 8: Between Darmstadt and DA-Eberstadt
15. 2014-11-26 49 8: In Bensheim-Auerbach near a voltage transformation substation and about 200 m west of ALDI.
14. 2014-11-15 50 8: In a forest near Dietzenbach (Sa.)
13. 2014-11-08 49 8: In the Odenwald east of Heppenheim, near Mittershausen (Sa.)
12. 2014-10-05 48 7: In a little wood between Bouxwiller and Ingwiller (Alsace, France)
11. 2014-09-27 49 8: In the Odenwald near Fränkisch-Crumbach (Sa.)
10. 2014-09-08 49 7: In the Palatinate Forest near the Luitpold Tower
9. 2014-07-17 49 8: On a forest aisle half way between Lorsch and Neuschloss
8. 2014-06-27 49 8: In front of the Viernheim Bowling Center
7. 2014-05-12 49 8: In a wood near Bensheim-Hochstädten
6. 2014-04-20 49 8: On a dyke with bicycle path near Biebesheim
5. 2014-03-29 49 8: On a vineyard near Nierstein not far from the Rhine (Sa.)

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4. 2013-12-11 49 8: In the southern part of Darmstadt: Rüthleinweg/Edith-Stein-Weg
3. 2013-11-14 49 8: A meadow with apple trees near Einhausen
2. 2013-10-25 49 8: Not to far from home and near a geocache which I could not log in april
1. 2013-09-27 49 8: Three days after creating my account at XKCD I had the chance to visit my first geohash near Fehlheim

not reached

8. 2016-11-04 49 8: Near Wolfskehlen (70 m off) on a field
7. 2016-09-26 49 8: In Alsbach (33 m off) on a builders' merchant's area
6. 2016-08-18 47 12: Near Piding (50 m off)
5. 2016-03-23 49 8: On the BASF area near Frankenthal
4. 2016-02-28 49 8: On a pasture near Groß-Bieberau in the Odenwald
3. 2016-01-16 49 8: In the northern part of Mannheim City on the roof of a company (Saturday)
2. 2015-11-15 49 8: Near the "Schuldorf Bergstraße" in the caretakers garden
1. 2015-03-21 49 8: Near the circle of caches east of Wald-Michelbach in the Odenwald

not attempted

• 2014-10-16 49 8: In the 0.1 % French part of this graticule - but too ill to start an expedition :-((

Plans and ideas

✔ Meet other geohashers tads and Cuxi

• Meet more geohashers e. g. Dodo, Manu&Reinhard, GeorgDerReisende, Ekorren, Drei aus Korb, Waltraud, Nathan W ...

✔ Cross the border to France (specially to the little French triangle in graticule 49,8)

• Cross the border to Switzerland, Belgium, Netherlands and other countries - ✔ Denmark, ✔ Austria
• Visit all graticules next to our own (= level 9 of the Minesweeper achievement)

✔ Get some different achievements

• Get more different achievements

✔ Geohashing on a leap day

• Rise a little bit in the list of the most active users
• Rise Mannheim, Germany in the list of the most active graticules.
  ✔ On 2016-05-21 Mannheim was owned the first place in expedition-counts (Users 2016: DODO, RecentlyChanged, DLichti, Yakamoz, Cuxi, Ttads, Q-Owla and me).

✔ Visit my birthday hash 1955-11-28 49 8

• Earn a few gratuitous achievements; see Gratuitous ribbons list

✔ create at least one gratuitous achievement (ferry achievement and christmas achievement)

Visited Graticules

Green shows success and red indicates attempted but failed graticules. The numbers show successful/all Expeditions

	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13
50	./.	./.	2/2	1/1	./.	./.	./.	./.
49	./.	1/1	50/58	2/2	./.	./.	1/1	./.
48	./.	2/2	./.	./.	./.	./.	./.	1/1
47	./.	./.	./.	./.	./.	./.	0/1	./.

Other graticule(s): 54 11 in Denmark

You may see my hashes and the visited graticules on the map xkcd.nathanwoodruff.com/GooMapXKCDQ-Owl.htm.

Countries

• Germany
• France
• Denmark
• Austria

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.	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.	2015-01-23, 2014-03-29, 2015-10-30
Q-Owl earned the Land geohash achievement by reaching the (49, 8) geohash on 2013-09-27.

Geographic

Q-Owl earned the Border geohash achievement by crossing the Germany-France border on 2015-01-28 to reach the (49, 8) geohash.	France, Austria
Reverse border geohash achievement: We were on holiday in Salzburg and crossed the border from Austria back to Germany to reach this hp. Q-Owl earned the Border geohash achievement by crossing the Austria-Germany border on 2016-08-18 to reach the (47, 12) geohash.	Austria
Q-Owl earned the Reverse regional achievement by reaching hash points in all 4 regions of the Mannheim, Germany (49, 8) graticule on states level.	Alsace, Rhineland-Palatinate, Baden-Württemberg, Hesse
Q-Owl earned the Reverse regional achievement by reaching hash points in all 2 regions of the Mannheim, Germany (49, 8) graticule on countries level.	France, Germany
Q-Owl earned the Regional geohashing achievement by reaching a hash point in all 2 graticules belonging to Odenwaldkreis (ERB).	49 9
Q-Owl achieved level 5 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement by visiting coordinates in Mannheim, Germany and 5 of the surrounding graticules.
Q-Owl earned the Cliffs of Despair consolation prize by being prevented from reaching the (49, 8) geohash on 2015-03-21 by too much altitude difference and too much distance.
Q-Owl earned the No trespassing consolation prize by almost (14 m) reaching the (49, 8) geohash on 2015-11-15.

Interaction Achievements

Q-Owl earned the Meet-up achievement by meeting Tads at the (49, 8) geohash on 2014-09-27.	2014-09-27
Q-Owl earned the Drag-along achievement by dragging Q-Owla to the (49, 7) geohash on 2014-09-08.	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.	2015-01-22, 2014-11-28, 2014-04-20, 2015-05-09
Q-Owl earned the xkcd Nullaturion achievement by attending 8 Saturday meetups.	see in list above

Timing Achievements

Q-Owl earned the Consecutive geohash achievement by reaching hash points on 4 consecutive days starting on 2015-01-20.
Q-Owl & Q-Owla earned the Consecutive geohash achievement by reaching hash points on 2 consecutive days starting on 2015-03-13.	2015-03-13, 2015-10-24, 2016-01-08
Q-Owl & Q-Owla earned the Pi Day Achievement by visting a hashpoint on Pi Day (49, 8) geohash on 2015-03-14.
Q-Owl & Q-Owla earned the Leap geohash achievement 2016 by leaping to the hash point on leap day of the year 2016.
Q-Owl & Q-Owla earned the Christmas achievement by reaching the Christmas Day (49, 8) geohash on 2014-12-25.
Q-Owl earned the Birthday Geohash Achievement by reaching the (49, 8) geohash on his 59 birthday, 2014-11-28.
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 Origin geohash achievement by reaching the (49, 8) geohash for 1955-11-28 on 2015-11-18.
Q-Owl earned the Déjà Vu Geohash Achievement by reaching the (49, 8) geohash on 2014-07-17, and previously on 2012-12-11.

Other Achievements

Q-Owl earned the GeoTrash Geohash Achievement by cleaning up the (49, 8) geohash on 2016-06-16.
Q-Owl earned the Velociraptor Geohash Achievement by reaching the (49, 8) geohash for 2015-01-28 with highly visible raptor claw marks.
Q-Owl earned the Frozen Geohash Achievement by reaching the (49, 9) geohash on 2015-01-18 while the temperature was -1 °C.
Q-Owl earned the Two to the N achievement by reaching 25 hashpoints on 2015-07-21 54 11 and is promoted to Level 5 (Coordinates reached).
Q-Owl earned the Two to the N achievement by reaching 20 hashpoints on 2013-09-27 49 8 and is promoted to Level 0 (Coordinates reached).
Q-Owl earned the pentacontahash by completing his 50th successful expedition. (49, 8) geohash on 2016-04-01.
Q-Owl earned the Heinz Award by reaching the 57th variety of Geohash. (49, 8) geohash on 2016-06-07.
Q-Owl earned the Hash collision achievement by discovering the geocache OCF495 0.0 km from the (49, 8) geohash on 2014-05-12.
Q-Owl earned the Circus Geohash Achievement by juggling a diabolo at the (49, 8) geohash on 2013-11-14.
Is it true that Q-Owl earned the Ambassador Achievement? In principle, yes. But the land owner was not at home (2016-01-08 49 8).
Is it true that this user earned the Hash Collision Achievement? In principle, yes. But the cache GC1TA93 (about 30 m distance in direct sight) wasn't there today and I found it already two years ago (2016-04-11 49 8).

Q-Owl earned the Protect the Nature achievement by not walking and geodancing on an unmown meadow (47, 12) geohash on 2016-08-18.

HowTo in this Wiki

Information I searched and collected:

Map
Map of visited graticules: xkcd.nathanwoodruff.com/GooMapXKCDQ-Owl.htm.

Most active
most active users and most active graticules (maintained by NWoodruff)

List of uploaded Files
http://wiki.xkcd.com/wgh/index.php?title=Special%3AListFiles&limit=50&ilsearch=&user=Q-Owl

Edit an existing gallery of the day
Go to the main page and scroll down. In the middle of the page is the gallery for this month. Klick "add" at the chosen day.
Direct link to a certain day: https://geohashing.site/index.php?title=Template:Expedition_Images2/2016-MM-DD&action=edit
More information: How-to

Start a new gallery for today
Go to the main page and scroll down. In the middle of the page is the gallery for this month. Klick "add" at the chosen day.
Write an entry as explained in How-to

Delete a photo
Use the word delete in double braces {{...}}. You can edit photos; that's where the caption is stored.
(learned at User_talk:Joannac#Delete_Photos_and_Pages)

Delete a page
You can mark pages with the word delete in double braces anywhere; first line of text is possibly easiest.

Calculating Coordinates
At 2015-03-10 49 8 you can see, how GeorgDerReisende performs it.
You can get the opening price for the Dow Jones Industrial Average from http://www.google.com/finance/historical?q=indexdjx:.dji. But geohashers in Europe use the price of the previous day (according to the "east of -30° rule")!
More: The Geohashing Algorithm.

Using the Parser
ParserFunctions, eg. #if or #time
Magic_words, eg. current date or pagename

Minimize a few photos simultaneously
You can use IrfanView (www.irfanview.de): "File" - "Batch Conversation/Rename..." - "Use Advanced options" - "Resize" - "Set long Side"

HowTo get informed

about new hashpoints in your area:

Geohash Droid
This free Android app shows the hashpoint in your graticule and in the eight graticules around it. You will get it at the Google Play Store.
And the app can notify you, if there is a hashpoint near points you can choose. Just turn to Preferences/Map options/Manage known locations, there you can define points of your interest and select a radius for each of them.
Additional condition: At Preferences/Other options "Prefetch stocks" must be active.

E-Mail Notification
You get informed as soon as new coordinates for the next day(s) become available. Just sign in at xkcd.nathanwoodruff.com/Notify.aspx and define points and radiuses for future hashpoints and global hashes.

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, here it is:

  function geohashing_textlink( $my_date = -1 , $cl = "" ){
      /* a text link to a special day 
         Parameters: $my_date (optional):  2 the day after tomorrow
                                           1 tomorrow
                                           0 today
                                          -1 yesterday
                                          -2 the day before yesterday 
                                          -3 and so on ...
                     $cl (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; }
      $cl = trim( $cl ); 

      //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=\"" . $cl . "\""; }

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

      return( $outp );
  }

Other version with date as input:

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

      //... continue as the function above

How to calculate the md5 hash of a string is explained at php.net.