User:Ilpadre

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About me

24 / m / 49,8

I live in Heidelberg, Germany and will mainly try to reach hashpoints by bike or foot (I like running long distances). If reachable by train, I might also go (and already have been) to hashpoints further away from my home.

Geohashing goals for the future (more or less sorted by probability of success):

• Midnight Geohash achieved 2008-12-31
• Snowman Geohash achieved 2008-11-24
• Consecutive Geohash achieved 2008-12-31
• Proxy Geohash
• Puppet Master Geohash
• Multihash
• Regional Geohashing
• Expeditions in other countries achieved 2009-01-12
• Expeditions on other continents
• Globalhash

Geohashes

Videos of my expeditions (3 so far).

Visited Graticules

N\E	7	8	9	10	11
50
49
48
47

Regular Expeditions

Total expeditions:	10
Hashpoints reached:	10
Hashpoints not reached:	0
Graticules visited:	4

Expedition:	Achievements worth mentioning:
2008-10-22 Heidelberg (49,8)	Template:Virgin graticule ilpadre earned the Walk geohash Achievement by reaching the (49, 8) geohash on 2008-10-22 on foot, travelling a distance of 5.8 km.
2008-10-26 Heidelberg (49,8)	ilpadre earned the Walk geohash Achievement by reaching the (49, 8) geohash on 2008-10-26 on foot, travelling a distance of 11 km.
2008-10-29 Heidelberg (49,8)	ilpadre earned the Déjà Vu Geohash Achievement by reaching the (49, 8) geohash on 2008-10-29, and previously on 2008-09-28.
2008-11-01 Eßleben (49,10) met Danatar	ilpadre earned the Drag-along achievement by dragging his girlfriend to the (49, 10) geohash on 2008-11-01.
2008-11-24 Bad Wimpfen (49,9) met Danatar	ilpadre earned the Holy hash achievement by reaching the sacred (49, 9) location on 2008-11-24. ilpadre earned the Snowman Geohash Achievement by building a snowman at the (49, 9) geohash on 2008-11-24.
2008-12-10 Mauer (49,8)	ilpadre earned the Public transport geohash achievement by reaching the (49, 8) geohash on 2008-12-10 using public transit. ilpadre earned the Last man standing achievement by being the the only hasher world-wide to go on a geohashing expedition on 2008-12-10.
2008-12-30 Wörth (49,8)	ilpadre earned the Public transport geohash achievement by reaching the (49, 8) geohash on 2008-12-30 using public transit. ilpadre earned the Frozen Geohash Achievement by reaching the (49, 8) geohash on 2008-12-30 while the temperature was below the freezing point of water.
2008-12-31 Maximiliansau (49,8)	ilpadre earned the Midnight Geohash achievement by reaching the (49, 8) geohash on 2008-12-31 in the middle of the night. ilpadre earned the Picnic achievement by reaching the (49, 8) geohash on 2008-12-31. ilpadre earned the Consecutive geohash achievement by reaching 2 consecutive hash points starting on 2008-12-30.
2009-01-12 Lauterbourg (48,8) met Ekorren	ilpadre earned the Border geohash achievement by crossing the Germany-France border on 2009-01-12 to reach the (48, 8) geohash.
2008-10-22 Heidelberg (49,8)	ilpadre earned the Sunrise Geohash Achievement by reaching the (49, 8) geohash on 2008-10-22 to smile at the first rays of sun to cross the horizon. ilpadre earned the Walk geohash Achievement by reaching the (49, 8) geohash on 2008-10-22 on foot, travelling a distance of 5.8 km.

Irregular Expeditions

2008-12-21 Heidelberg (49,8)

Retro expedition to a conveniently placed 2008-07-09 hashpoint

Wiki Stuff

I like drawing xkcd-ish images for achievement ribbons. See my gallery of achievement images. I keep looking out for newly created achievements that need a ribbon image, and for old images that could be improved.

To-Do List

Graticule pages: Currently working on Dubai, UAE, Muscat, Oman, Dammam, Saudi Arabia and adjacent graticules.

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Misc.

NYSE Holidays

“	:) Ar, a hash! Oh, Sahara ):	”
—Geohashing palindrome