Talk:Bicycle geohash achievement

Icons

I also drew an Icon for the Bicycle geohash achievement. Now, we have two. Decide, which one you want to use: -- Hermann 19:03, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

Splitting

I observe some users adding multiple expeditions with their bikes. In my oppinion, a user earnes the Bicycle Geohashing Awarad once, with his fist successful hashing by bike, and shouldn't be named on this page a second time. We should then make a complete list of all hashings with bike on another page. If noone speaks against this idea, I'll create that biking-page. --Hermann 18:33, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

I agree that a particular person should appear at most once on the achievement page, but I don't have any problem with someone moving up the list if they go on a longer ride. Brett Daniel 00:13, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
I now split the list. The complete list with all rides is now available though Bicycle geohashes. --Hermann 20:17, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

Where does the ride start?

A conversation on a recent geohash raised some questions and we thought they should be settled before someone has done the bike ride. For the purpose of the longest ride to a geohash, if ...

I start riding south from Vancouver, Canada on Monday, and check the coordinates each morning. Everything in Washington and Oregon is in the sea, mountains or private property on my way south, but on Friday morning I see that there will be an on-street geohash in Sacramento, California. I ride there and make the meet. Is my bicycle geohash the 450 km from where I looked up the Saturday geohash, or is it the 1450 km I rode from Vancouver?

I ride my bike to Kelowna and stay there a week in a motel until an accessible geohash arises. I ride 43 km from the hotel to the geohash and claim it. Is my bicycle geohash 43 km, or 43 km plus the 400 km it took to get to Kelowna.

I am doing an endurance geohash, biking from one graticule to the next and spending the night in a tent, a nearby motel or with friends, as circumstances allow. I reach the seventh geohash after 875 km of biking. Is that my record for the bicycle geohash, or am I limited to the longest interhash segment?

Assume in each case that there is no doubt that I have made each of these rides for the sole purpose of geohashing. -Robyn 05:36, 20 April 2009 (UTC)