Talk:Travelling hashman achievement

I suggest to move this to Traveling hashman achievement. And create a redirect from Travelling hashman achievement, or the other way around. -- relet

done -- Xore 21:51, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

I don't know. Reaching seven hash points seems pretty massive to me. It's an interesting feat, but I wouldn't create the achievement before anyone actually attempted it. -- relet 21:44, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

It's something truly notable to achieve. I doubt anyone in vancouver will be able to pull it off, due to severe geographical constraints, but I think some ambitious germans or even atlantans could pull it off... -- Xore 21:51, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

My first few thoughts:

• Hardly achievable, as the chance that all seven points are reachable is almost zero in most graticules.
• Contradicts the spirit of going on the actual day, as it means to skip six possible days of valid coordinates just to have a small chance at the end of the week, which then still may turn out being void. Each expedition skipped for that is a loss to true geohashing.
• Only possible by burning a lot of fuel on a car. Simply impossible with any other kind of transport.

=> Oppose. --Ekorren 21:57, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

It's cute, through the reference to the problem, but I oppose creating an extremely difficult retrohash achievement just to be cute. I haven't seen anyone suffering because it's too easy to get to their Saturday geohash point and so they need another six random locations to go to. Is the person allowed to choose any week in the past? If it's to be done on the Saturday for the past seven days then it's just a cheat for the Endurance geohashing achievement, taking all the spontaneity out of hoping that the next day will be attainable. Also if the Saturday is attainable, the person should be going to that at 4, and planning six other hashpoints makes it less likely that they will be at the meetup point at the right place. Can you do something with the travelling salesman problem that doesn't involve retros? Maybe just the Friday, Saturday, Sunday points? But even then the person either has to go back to get the right ones on the right days or sacrifice actually getting hashpoints on their days. So I don't like that either. And the Atlanteans aren't going to do it unless they are going to deliberately not visit any point for a week! I don't see that this encourages more meetings, more interesting adventures or more geohashing by people who wouldn't otherwise go. -Robyn 22:10, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

Also, relet, do Germans use American English spellings by definition? Did their sector of the occupation leave a stronger legacy than the British one? -Robyn 22:10, 15 June 2009 (UTC)