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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, old Samsung S2, power stick (2.2 Ah)
Software: Geohash Droid, c:geo, OSM maps
Expeditions
Plan
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reached
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
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
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.)
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
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, ...
✔ Cross the border to: France (specially to the little French triangle in graticule 49,8)
- Cross the border to: Switzerland, Austria and other countries - ✔ Denmark
- 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.
✔ Visit my birthday hash 1955-11-28 49 8
- Earn a few gratuitous achievements
✔ 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 schow successful/all Expeditions
| 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | |
| 50 | ./. | ./. | 2/2 | 1/1 | ./. | ./. | ./. | ./. |
| 49 | ./. | 1/1 | 47/53 | 2/2 | ./. | ./. | ./. | ./. |
| 48 | ./. | 1/1 | ./. | ./. | ./. | ./. | ./. | ./. |
| 47 | ./. | ./. | ./. | ./. | ./. | ./. | ./. | ./. |
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
Achievements
(first occurrence, newest first)
Transportation
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Geographic
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Interaction Achievements
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2015-01-22, 2014-11-28, 2014-04-20, 2015-05-09 | ||
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Timing Achievements
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 Q-Owl & Q-Owla earned the Leap geohash achievement 2016
by leaping to the hash point on leap day of the year 2016.
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Other Achievements
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 Q-Owl earned the Frozen Geohash Achievement
by reaching the (49, 9) geohash on 2015-01-18 while the temperature was -1 °C.
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 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).
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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).
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Q-Owl earned the pentacontahash
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Q-Owl earned the Heinz Award
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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: http://wiki.xkcd.com/wgh/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"
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.
- Geohashers
- Geohashers in their 60s
- Geohashers in 49,8
- Bicycle geohash achievement
- Gratuitous ribbon achievement
- Land geohash achievement
- Border geohash achievement
- Reverse regional achievement
- Minesweeper geohash achievement
- Cliffs of despair consolation prize
- No trespassing consolation prize
- Meet-up achievement
- Drag-along achievement
- Xkcd centurion achievement
- Consecutive geohash achievement
- Leap geohash achievement
- Birthday geohash achievement
- Hashiversary achievement
- Origin geohash achievement
- Déjà vu geohash achievement
- Velociraptor geohash achievement
- Frozen geohash achievement
- Two to the N achievement
- Hash collision achievement
- Circus geohash achievement
- Radio Yerevan
