Zürich, Switzerland

The Zürich graticule is located at latitude 47, longitude 8. Zürich, the biggest city in Switzerland, is located more or less in the center of the graticule. It further contains the cities of Winterthur, Lucerne and Schaffhausen.

Around two third of its area are within Switzerland whereas the northern part belongs to Germany. Other mentionable geographical features are the origin of the Danube river near Donaueschingen, the river Rhine that cuts the area from east to west, and the beginning of the Alpine mountain range in the very south east of the graticule.

About

According to Land usage, the chance for your hash to fall into one of the following areas is:

42.05%	Fields
24.31%	Forests
22.90%	Natural reserves
3.63%	Water
3.35%	Settlements
2.60%	Roads
1.14%	Highways

Today's Location: [Zurich, Switzerland]

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Achievements

The Zürich, Switzerland graticule (47 8) earned the Mostly Active Graticule achievement

for the month of 2012-06 in the category total expeditions by being the location of 6 expeditions.

The Zürich, Switzerland graticule (47 8) earned the Mostly Active Graticule achievement

for the month of 2012-12 in the category total expeditions by being the location of 6 expeditions.

Current plans

Check out the Current events page to see if any expeditions are planned here.

Expeditions

most recent first

2013-01-03 Calamus and Chris_47_8 found a pub and played some billard!
2013-01-02 Chris_47_8 went to the lovely canton of Schwyz.
2012-12-29 Calamus unsuccessfully tried to meet Foehammer.
2012-12-23 Calamus went to Glattfelden.
2012-12-01 Calamus made an international visit.
2012-11-26 Calamus wandered the Üetliberg.
2012-09-21 Calamus did part of a planet walk.
2012-09-10 Calamus failed at the Limmat.
2012-08-25 Calamus visited the German border.
2012-08-19 Calamus celebrated his hashversary.
2012-08-03 Calamus captured the Munot fortress. Through the door.
2012-07-30 Calamus's tron was bedevilled by elevation differences.
2012-07-29 Calamus and Waldzitherclown visited Bülach city
2012-07-08 Calamus got pranked by the Argovian construction authority
2012-06-30 Calamus went paddling
2012-06-29 Calamus camped over night and got thunderstorm'd
2012-06-27 Calamus managed to be allowed onto a wealthy guy's grounds
2012-06-25 Calamus found somebody had been waiting for him at the hashpoint for five years
2012-06-24 Calamus had to run to reach this nigh-mid-city hashpoint in time
2012-06-05 Foehammer failed an ambassador achievement in an Argovian village, but introduced his girlfriend to Geohashing
2012-05-26 Frizzy and Hijackal hiked 20 km to the Mouseover hash in flip flops
2012-05-25 Frizzy and Hijackal celebrated Towel Day by juggling on the hashpoint
2012-05-04 Easy hash on a hill next to a grove and very close to Foehammers home
2012-03-08 Although this geohash lies around 3600km from Zurich, its conquer began here. Wolkenjaegers attempt even made it into the hall of amazingness!
2011-08-20 A nice spot in the middle of Winterthur city
2011-08-19 Calamus felt like mountaineering
2011-06-18 Crox and Elisa were stopped by a construction site
2011-06-13 In the german exclave Büsingen, reached independently by Ekorren and TheOneRing
2011-05-07 Between Effretikon and Kempttal, not far away from the 2010-12-12-geohash
2011-02-15 Cheap one: directly on a street in the wood near Baden, Switzerland
2011-01-09 Multinational meetup near Schleitheim, Kanton Schaffhausen, Switzerland
2010-12-26 Danatar visited a snowy but sunlit forest near Schaffhausen and went to the Rhine Falls afterwards.
2010-12-12 In Bassersdorf
2009-10-14 The Swiss Army went geohashing!
2009-05-31 Ekorren was at Sumpfohren.
2009-01-21 reached by Enric and relet.
2009-01-04 A little new years trip. First time ever for all three participants.
2008-11-19 A group led by swiss radio seems to have reached the point. One photo was posted to the main page, otherwise it was only reported on the radio.
2008-05-24 Looks like someone got near, but the description is a bit on the short side. Participants were most probably stopped by a fence and did not reach the coordinates.

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