User:Koepfel

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Revision as of 19:26, 12 July 2009 by imported>Koepfel (+1)

Hi there

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I live in Karlsruhe, Germany, so I'm most active in 49,8 and 48,8.

I was an occasional xkcd-reader for a while now, but never bothered to read it from the beginning. In January 2009 I did, however, discovering Geohashing. The fact that I just got a phone with built-in GPS came in handy as well. On the following weekend, I saw that the Sunday Geohash was only 2 kilometers away from my place, so I decided to go there.

my Expeditions

Most distances of older expeditions were measured by retracing the route as I remembered it in Google Earth, the first two expeditions to Waldstadt and Neuburg were even retraced weeks after the expeditions took place, so these might not always be accurate.

Achievements

(most recent first)

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Koepfel earned the xkcd Nullaturion achievement
by attending 5 Saturday meetups.

Saturday meetups were: 2009-01-31 48 8, 2009-04-18 49 8, 2009-04-25 48 8, 2009-06-20 49 8, 2009-07-11 49 8

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Koepfel earned the Walk geohash Achievement
by reaching the (49, 8) geohash on 2009-07-01 on foot, travelling a distance of 4.3km.
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Koepfel earned the Velociraptor Geohash Achievement
by reaching the (49, 8) geohash for 2009-06-12 with highly visible raptor claw marks.
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Koepfel earned the Democracy is more important than Geohashing Consolidation Prize
by going voting instead of geohashing, thereby missing the (47, 10) geohash on 2009-06-07.
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Koepfel earned the Pub Geohash Achievement
by visiting a pub visible from the (49, 8) geohash on 2009-05-21.
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thepiguy, srs0 and Koepfel earned the 2009 Geohashing Day achievement
by celebrating in the (49, 8) graticule on May 21st 2009.
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Koepfel earned the Meet-up achievement
by meeting srs0 and thepiguy at the (49, 8) geohash on 2009-05-21.
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Koepfel earned the No trespassing consolation prize
by almost reaching the (49, 8) geohash on 2009-05-21.
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Koepfel and Ekorren earned the Drag-along achievement
by dragging some stranger in the forest to the (48, 8) geohash on 2009-04-25.
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Koepfel earned the Meet-up achievement
by meeting Ekorren at the (48, 8) geohash on 2009-04-25.
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Koepfel earned the Consecutive geohash achievement
by reaching 2 consecutive hash points starting on 2009-04-24.
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Koepfel earned the Multihash Achievement
by reaching the 2009-04-18 49 7 and 2009-04-18 49 8 geohashes on 2009-04-18.
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Koepfel earned the Drowned Rat Geohash Achievement
by reaching the (49, 7) geohash on 2009-04-18 despite being thoroughly wet from biking about 30 kilometers through pouring rain. He was still soaked on the following 2009-04-18 49 8 expedition.
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Koepfel earned the Bicycle geohash achievement
by cycling to the (48, 8) geohash on 2009-04-05.

and has reached 2 other Hashpoints by bike. Also, a bike was used on 6 other expeditions, which do not qualify for the bicycle geohash achievement, since a large part of the expedition was done by train.

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Koepfel earned the Reverse regional achievement
by reaching hash points in all 3 regions of the Pforzheim, Germany (48, 8) graticule.
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Koepfel earned the Border geohash achievement
by crossing the French-German border on 2009-03-30 to reach the (48, 8) geohash.

and crossed the same border again on one other expedition.

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Koepfel earned the GeoTrash Geohash Achievement
by cleaning up the (49, 8) geohash on 2009-03-16.
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Koepfel earned the It's a kitty consolation prize
by being so distracted by a unexpectedly rescheduled exam as to forget to go to the (49, 8) geohash on 2009-03-02.
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Koepfel earned the Snowman Geohash Achievement
by building a snowman at the (48, 8) geohash on 2009-02-14.
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Koepfel earned the Déjà Vu Geohash Achievement
by reaching the (49, 8) geohash on 2009-01-25, and previously on 2008-09-05.
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Koepfel earned the Meet-up achievement
by meeting Fluxkompensator at the (49, 8) geohash on 2009-01-25.

and met him on 3 other expeditions.

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Koepfel earned the Land geohash achievement
by reaching the (49, 8) geohash on 2009-01-25.

and has reached 18 other Hashpoints on Land.

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Koepfel earned the Public transport geohash achievement
by reaching the (49, 8) geohash on 2009-01-25 via Karlsruhe Tram Line 4.
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and has reached 15 other Hashpoints by public transport, 6 of them were reached by using a bike for parts of the expedition.