2014-05-21 49 10

Location

A wood near Raitersaich

Participants

Plans

Expedition

I allways wanted to go hunt some hash points. But using the web based tools was allways to complicated. But this week I discoverd the geohashing app in the Android store - and it works perfectly! :-)

And on this really, really nice day (warm and sunny), it showed me a coordinate that was

just within reach for me during the 3 or four hours I had to spare (nearly allways going by bike...)

- apparently located only a few meters from a road near an open field - situated in a really nice rural landscape.

So off I went, leaving work a little early and setting the hash point as a target in my brand new routing software (OSMAnd).

I knew that routing for bicycles is a magnitude harder than car routing. That combined with the remaining inconsistencies of OSM map material (although that is rather good around Nuremberg) leads to a rather... interesting... route that I was led. I got the impression, that the routing algorithm itself sometimes used some kind of geohashing-like algorithms.

Although it didn't help that OSMAnd's UI is rather car-centric.

All this led to a lot of this kind of situations:

OSMAnd: Turn right!

Me: But there is no road.

OSMAnd: Yes there is!

Me: No, there isn't!

OSMAnd: Believe me, there is! Look at my map!

Me: YOU believe ME, in reality there is no road!

OSMAnd: Ok, here is your choice: Either you believe there to be a road and take it, or track your way back for the last two or three kilometres and try something different on your own...

Me: *Gnaaarg*

So going to the hashpoint was really, really fun. A great adventure that I am still thinking about with a silly smile on my face :)

The hashpoint itself was rather unspectacular. And very nearly it was a Déjà Vu Geohash, as it lay just a view hundred meters from the riding stable were we sometimes lend a pony for a little tour with our young niece.

Tracklog

Photos

The hashpoint as located by my GPS - surprisingly nice area! Schnatterfleck @49.3688,10.8290
Aeaeah... Routing app?... You're kidding, right...?? @49.4128,10.9025
Really steep (more than it looks on the picture)... but also part of the calculated route. Fallback to pushing the bike (at least not carrying yet...) @49.4124,10.9034
THIS is how I like it :) - But the near dead-end already lurked at the bottom of the little valley.... @49.4095,10.8950
Mission accomplished! @49.3687,10.8288
Not very far from the hash point. And I actually know those horses. @49.3699,10.8357
I was actually routed right through the middle of a golf course! @49.3781,10.9775

Achievements


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