User:Danatar

27 / m / 49,9 About I'm a student in Würzburg, Germany (living near 49.8, 9.95), and I will try to reach hashpoints in biking distance. Having no important tasks except for 1) lunch with my friends at 12:45, 2) writing my doctoral thesis and 3) preparing my final examination (in April), I may do expeditions on every day of the week. I don't own a GPS device but I'm watching eBay for one. I may also visit hashpoints near Heidelberg in my origin graticule Mannheim, Germany (49, 8).
Statistics Total expeditions: 23 in 8 different graticules - By bike: 14 (total distance cycled: 523.8 km) - By public transport (+ walking): 3 - By public transport + bike: 3 - On foot: 1 - As a passive car passenger: 1 Hashpoints reached: 22 in 8 different graticules - XKCD Meetups (Saturday 4pm): 2 in 2 different graticules Hashpoints not reached: 1 in 1 different graticules - For failure of technology: 1 Geohashers met - total: 3 at 3 hashpoints in 3 different graticules - different: 2 at 2 hashpoints in 2 different graticules: ilpadre at 2008-11-01 49 10 Ekorren at 2008-11-26 48 8 Graticules visited: 8 - Virgin graticules: 6 - Regions visited: 4 (EU-DE-BY, EU-DE-BW, EU-DE-RLP, EU-PL-DS) 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 51 50 49 48 Expeditions most recent first, Saturday Meetups in bold 2008-12-09 49 9 (Würzburg, Germany), not far from Retzbach: Failure #1 (Technology) 2008-12-08 49 9 (Würzburg, Germany), in a field near Limbachshof/Kist: Success #22; Bicycle Geohash #14 2008-11-27 49 9 (Würzburg, Germany), at the edge of a field near Fuchsstadt: Success #21; Bicycle Geohash #13 2008-11-26 48 8 (Pforzheim, Germany), in Pforzheim: Success #20; Public Transport #6; Virgin Geohash for 48 8; met Ekorren 2008-11-24 49 9 (Würzburg, Germany), next to a church in Bad Wimpfen: Success #19; Public Transport #5; Holy Hash; Snowman Geohash; met ilpadre 2008-11-23 49 10 (Bamberg, Germany), in a field near Erlach/Ochsenfurt: Success #18; Bicycle Geohash #12 2008-11-20 50 10 (Gotha, Germany), in a forest near Altershausen/Haßfurt: Success #17; Public Transport Geohash #4; Multihash 2008-11-20 50 9 (Fulda, Germany), in a forest near Langenprozelten/Lohr: Success #16; Public Transport Geohash #3; part 1 of a Multihash 2008-11-01 49 10 (Bamberg, Germany), in a field near Eßleben: Success #15; Saturday Meetup #2; Bicycle Geohash #11; met ilpadre 2008-10-31 49 10 (Bamberg, Germany), in a field near Rottendorf: Success #14; Bicycle Geohash #10 2008-10-24 49 9 (Würzburg), in the Gramschatzer Wald forest near Würzburg/Rimpar: Success #13; Bicycle Geohash #9 2008-10-22 49 7 (Kaiserslautern, Germany), on a road in the forest near Kaiserslautern: Success #12; Public Transport Geohash #2; Multihash; Virgin Geohash for 49 7 2008-10-22 49 8 (Mannheim, Germany), on a major road in Heidelberg: Success #11; Consecutive Geohash Level 3; Déjà-vu Geohash; part 1 of a Multihash 2008-10-21 49 9 (Würzburg, Germany), in a meadow near Neckarsulm: Success #10; Public Transport Geohash #1; Drowned Rat Geohash 2008-10-20 49 10 (Bamberg, Germany), on the banks of the Main near Ochsenfurt: Success #9; Bicycle Geohash #8 2008-10-13 49 9 (Würzburg, Germany), in a forest near Zellingen: Success #8; Bicycle Geohash #7 2008-10-08 49 9 (Würzburg, Germany), a vineyard in Würzburg: Success #7; Walk Geohash #1; Midnight Geohash #1; Déjà-vu Geohash 2008-10-06 49 10 (Bamberg, Germany), a meadow near Dettelbach: Success #6; Bicycle Geohash #6 2008-10-02 49 9 (Würzburg, Germany), in a forest near Retzstadt: Success #5; Bicycle Geohash #5 2008-09-29 50 9 (Fulda, Germany), a field near Arnstein: Success #4; Bicycle Geohash #4; Virgin Geohash for 50, 9 2008-09-23 49 10 (Bamberg, Germany), a field near Dettelbach-Biebergau: Success #3; Bicycle Geohash #3; Virgin Geohash for 49, 10 2008-09-20 49 9 (Würzburg, Germany), a field near Vilchband: Success #2; Saturday Meetup #1; Bicycle Geohash #2; Virgin Geohash for 49, 9 2008-09-07 51 15 (Zielona Góra, Poland), next to a farm in Dluzyna Górna: Success #1; Bicycle Geohash #1; Virgin Geohash for 51, 15; Border Geohash		Achievements in order of appearance Template:Virgin graticule Danatar earned the Border geohash achievement by crossing the German-Polish border on 2008-09-07 to reach the (51, 15) geohash. Template:Virgin graticule Danatar earned the Bicycle geohash achievement by cycling to the (49, 9) geohash on 2008-09-20. Template:Virgin graticule Danatar earned the No Batteries Geohash Achievement by reaching the (49, 10) geohash on 2008-09-23. Template:Virgin graticule Danatar earned the Déjà Vu Geohash Achievement by reaching the (49, 9) geohash on 2008-10-08, and previously on 2008-10-07. This déjà-vu ribbon was earned before the rules were changed to "visited the location before the geohash coordinates were announced", so I'll keep it. I earned a "correct" one later for 2008-10-22 49 8. Danatar earned the Midnight Geohash achievement by reaching the (49, 9) geohash on 2008-10-08 in the middle of the night. Danatar earned the Walk geohash Achievement by reaching the (49, 9) geohash on 2008-10-08 on foot, travelling a distance of 6.8 km. Danatar earned the Land geohash achievement by reaching the (49, 9) geohash on 2008-10-13. Danatar earned the Public transport geohash achievement by reaching the (49, 9) geohash on 2008-10-21 using public transit. Danatar earned the Drowned Rat Geohash Achievement by reaching the (49, 9) geohash on 2008-10-21 despite being thoroughly wet from cycling 9 km through pouring rain. Danatar earned the Consecutive geohash achievement by reaching 3 consecutive hash points starting on 2008-10-20. Template:Virgin graticule Danatar earned the Multihash Achievement by reaching the 2008-10-22 49 8 and 2008-10-22 49 7 geohashes on 2008-10-22. Danatar earned the Meet-up achievement by meeting ilpadre at the (49, 10) geohash on 2008-11-01. ilpadre and Danatar earned the Holy hash achievement by reaching the sacred (49, 9) location, which is in front of a catholic church, on 2008-11-24. ilpadre and Danatar earned the Snowman Geohash Achievement by building a snowman at the (49, 9) geohash on 2008-11-24. Template:Virgin graticule Ekorren and Danatar earned the Hash Collision Honorable Mention for discovering a geocache 0.85 km from the 2008-11-26 48 8 hashpoint. Danatar earned the Train Wreck Consolation Prize on 2008-12-09 by blowing up his bicycle with a tire inflator. Achievements not yet completed Danatar achieved level 5 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement by visiting coordinates in Würzburg, Germany and 5 of the surrounding graticules. Regional Geohash Achievement progress: 4/20 for Bayern (Bavaria) (EU-DE-BY) 3/11 for Baden-Württemberg (EU-DE-BW)
Owning no GPS device, I have to rely on Google Maps, the Bavarian Land Survey Office's maps (with topographical information) and OpenStreetMap.org to find the hashpoints. This means that whenever there is no special landmark (intersection, house...) at the hashpoint, I can only guess where the hashpoint is. If the hashpoint is e.g. in a forest 200 m from a track, I consider the coordinates reached after 200 large steps into the underbrush. If the hashpoint is in a field with crops or in a very dirty/wet place without any obstacle between me and the hashpoint, I am satisfied at the edge of that area. This is my heavy charger. He is heavy (no carbonbreds in his lineage), almost unstoppable (changing the brakes does not change anything) and carries me wherever I have the strength to take him. He is not born for far and fast journeys, more for the rocky wilderness. Unfortunately, I'm not born for the rocky wilderness, so his usual terrain are paved roads, downhill whenever possible. Nontheless, he has been my trusted steed for about 10-12 years. For those of you who use Firefox: Have a look at the minimap sidebar add-on. It supports Google Maps and OpenStreetMap and it tells you the exact coordinates the cursor is on. Disclaimer and thanks: Ideas for this page were stolen from / inspired by relet, Robyn, Arvid and others. Many thanks to Hessophanes for his great Regional-Geohash-Map-Tool.