User:Hermann

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Revision as of 17:38, 31 January 2011 by imported>Mtu (Achievements)
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xkcd-reader from germany, living in west Hamburg. In times of global warming, I dislike wasting fuel on Geohashing, so I try to get to hashes in range by bike. For your information, as of July 2008, standard fuel (91 ROZ) is 1.55 EUR per Litre ^= 2.53 AUD per Litre ^= 2.45 USD per Litre ^= 9.27 USD per US-Gallon in Germany.

You can speak to me in the #geohashing IRC channel or at my Teamspeak. I can have a look at your geohashing oriented PHP, Java, C++, Python, Pascal or Bash code (and there is a small possibility that I can improve it).

Contributions

I run the Google Maps service for generating overviews containing geohashing locations.
I adapted Douglas Adams' "Nad": In geohashing, you call it Geonad.
I drew the Bicycle Geohash Award ribbon image myself and converted Randall's Geohashing logo into a vector format image. It is used on the posters I hold being at the hashes and the promotional poster I left in Hamburg.
This wxPython powered App alerts me whenever todays geohash is close whilst this one fires at pixels using The Algoritm.
I use Commonist to upload my photos to the wiki. Use "geohashing _ http://wiki.xkcd.com/wgh/api.php" for your "wikis.txt" config file. It's great, much less clicking and copypasta.

Statistics

Range

Travelling by bike only, my range is:

9.60707 < longitude < 10
53.54037 < latitude < 53.67906

Hashes I've visited

You find an overview including all Geohashes I've been to here.

Hashes I've not been to

These hashes were in range, but I have not visited them because...

04. Jun. 2008 An apple tree in someones backyard in "Tornesch". I was hashing the previous day so I decided to skip that one.
16. Jun. 2008 Fallow ground near "Heist". I was on vacation in Sweden.
06. Jul. 2008 A small pond near Ellerbeck. It was raining.
10. Aug. 2008 East of "Elmshorn". And it was raining again...
11. Aug. 2008 Near "Rhen", north of "Norderstedt". Raining again...
12. Aug. 2008 South of "Tornesch". I was busy fixing my computer and checked the coordinates too late.
28. Dez. 2008 Northeast of "Pinneberg". Too cold for going by bike.
16. Feb. 2009 On an islet in the river Elbe near "Haseldorf". Snow. Destination unreachable without boat.
20. Feb. 2009 West of "Uetersen". Ugly weather.
22. Mär. 2009 Near "Thesdorf". Planned, then cancelled due to storm.
29. Mär. 2009 North of "Pinneberg" near the river "Pinnau". Distance was greather than motivation.
27. Mai 2009 Private property with caravans in "Hamburg-Lurup" Couln't find anyone to go on expedition with me. Didn't want to do it alone.
10. Jun. 2009 A (business?) builing in "Hamburg-Lurup". Messed up my back playing badminton. Can't ride my bike at the moment.
11. Jun. 2009 A backyard in "Hamburg-Lurup". Ouch.
16. Jun. 2009 Random field north the "Pinnau" flood barrage. Ouch.
18. Jun. 2009 Field in Niendorf (near the "Niendorfter Gehege"). Ahh.
19. Jun. 2009 Hedge near a main street in "Tornesch". Still not much better.
28. Aug. 2009 A road under some rails. Location was inaccesible and I had not enough spare time.
19. Sep. 2009 Field near "Haselau" Cycled in the direction but ran out of time.
22. Sep. 2009 Park near the Wilhelmsburg subway station. Weather was too good to spend two hours in the subway. Rode my bike somwhere else.
02. Okt. 2009 In the outer Alster. Checked the coordinates, planned to go there, then forgot about it over night.
09. Okt. 2009 A small city square with a group of trees downtown. Met a friend in the subway on the way, ran out ouf time going anti-shopping*.
20. Nov. 2009 A field near "Kummerfeld". Classes lasted longer than the day.
24. Nov. 2009 The river "Mühlenau" near Ellerbek. Same.
11. Jan. 2010 An old dike near "Hetlingen". There was no car nor ski available nor I had enough spare time to walk there.
23. Feb. 2010 North of the forest "Klövensteen" near 26. Apr. 2009. Would need spiked tyres for my bike.
25. Feb. 2010 In the district "Hamburg-Bahrenfeld". Public transport on strike.
27. Feb. 2010 Forest "Klövensteen". Cold and rainy weather led to lack of motivation.
06. Mai 2010 Backyard near "Hamburg-Schnelsen". Not enough spare time.
24. Jun. 2010 Corner of a house in "Schenefeld". Needed to do my homework.
10. Jul. 2010 Near a quarry pond I often swim in. Too hot for biking.
09. Okt. 2010 Industrial compound in "Halstenbek". Visited a friend for a cup of tea and didn't leave before sunset.
14. Okt. 2010 Near Hagenbeck's Zoo. Went swimming instead.
17. Okt. 2010 Field path in "Halstenbek-Krupunder". Went to Hagenbeck's Zoo. Looks like a synchronization issue.

*) Trying to purchase something that you just can't find in any of the visited stores.

Achievements


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This user earned the Drowned Rat Geohash Achievement
by reaching the (53, 9) geohash on 2008-06-03 despite being thoroughly wet from a thunderstorm.
Hermann Geohash 2008-06-03 53 9 Lightning.jpg
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This user earned the There might be alligators! consolation prize
by being prevented from reaching the (53, 9) geohash on 2008-06-24 by an impassable and unforeseen swamp (and probably lurking alligators).
Hermann Geohash 2008-06-24 Hamburg Swamp.jpg

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This user earned the Bicycle geohash achievement
by cycling to the (53, 9) geohash on 2008-05-26.
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This user earned the Land geohash achievement
by reaching the (53, 9) geohash on 2008-05-26.
Hermann Geohash 2008-05-26 53-9.jpg
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This user earned the No Batteries Geohash Achievement
by reaching the (53, 9) geohash on 2008-08-06.
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This user earned the Drag-along achievement
by dragging Matthias to the (53, 9) geohash on 2008-12-15.
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This user earned the Frozen Geohash Achievement
by reaching the (53, 9) geohash on 2009-01-09 while the temperature was -4.5°C.
Hermann Geohash 2009-01-09 53 9 P1096456.jpg
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This user earned the Sunrise Geohash Achievement
by reaching the (53, 9) geohash on 2009-01-09 to smile at the first rays of sun to cross the horizon.
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This user earned the Picnic achievement
by reaching the (53, 9) geohash on 2009-02-03.
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This user earned the Police Geohash Achievement
by meeting an officer while attempting the (53, 9) geohash on 2009-02-03.
Hermann Geohash 2009-02-03 53 9 P2038382.jpg
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This user earned the Pub Geohash Achievement
by visiting a pub visible from the (53, 9) geohash on 2009-03-08.
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This user earned the Public transport geohash achievement
by reaching the (53, 9) geohash on 2009-03-08 via U3.
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This user earned the No trespassing consolation prize
by almost reaching the (53, 9) geohash on 2009-04-26.
Hermann Geohash 2009-04-26 53 9 P4266624.jpg
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This user earned the Puppet Master Geohash achievement
by manipulating a fellow student to reach the (53, 9) geohash on 2011-01-28.
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Hermann earned the Meet-up achievement
by meeting mtu at the (53, 9) geohash on 2011-01-28.
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