User:dawidi

Paraplane launch

42 / m / 49,12

I work as a database programmer and multi-purpose geek in the "IT-Speicher" in Regensburg, Germany, and toy around with infrared thermography, unconventional r/c aircraft, aerial photography, and some other odd digital photography techniques in my free time.

I do have a website but for the moment it is horribly outdated.

I was a very active Openstreetmap mapper (back in 2007, when Regensburg almost completely missing on their map) and I've been a moderately, but constantly active Geocacher since 2006; these combine well with Geohashing expeditions.

I visited a lot of hashpoints in 2009, which was an amazing year - to a great extent thanks to geohashing expeditions and the people that accompanied me there. Since then my enthusiasm has faded a bit, so my weekend plans are no longer ruled by the DJIA, but I'm still looking for ones that would make for good day trips, and trying to at least pay a short visit to those hashpoints that are "too close not to go", which for me means that they're reachable from Regensburg by bicycle, including the corners of the neighbor graticules:

Nürnberg 49 11	Regensburg 49 12
München 48 11	Landshut 48 12

I have also been seen in other graticules across central Europe a few times, due to vacations and dedicated geohashing trips.

I can be found idling around in #geohashing most of the time, and I've built a program to generate Maps and Statistics about graticules and expeditions on the wiki.

Most recent expeditions

(newest first)

					2012-01-26 49 12 at the edge of a forest near Lorenzen, by bike with mojibake.
	2012-01-15 49 11 in a forest east of Amberg, by bike with mojibake.		2011-12-22 49 12 in an industrial area in eastern Regensburg, by bike.		2011-12-12 49 12 north of Kneiting, by bike with mojibake.
	2011-11-20 49 11 in the forest west of Burglengenfeld, by bike.		2011-08-09 49 12 in a field north near Lappersdorf, by bike with Tomcat.		2011-07-19 48 12 in a meadow near Grass, by bike with Tomcat.
	2011-06-19 49 12 in a forest east of Bodenwöhr, by bike with mojibake, Tomcat and Hans.		2011-05-31 49 12 in the Donau river near Schwabelweis, by kayak with Tomcat and Hans.		2011-05-25 48 11 in a meadow near Kapfelberg, by bike with Tomcat, Hans and a towel (not reached).
	2011-04-09 49 12 in a forest in Schwandorf, by train and bike.		2011-04-06 48 11 in a forest near Bergmatting, by bus and on foot with Ekorren.		2011-04-02 49 12 in a forest near Furth im Wald, by train and bike.

... and 90 other expeditions before that!

Most recent achievements

dawidi so far achieved level 7 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement by visiting coordinates in Landshut, Germany and 7 of the surrounding graticules.

Tomcat, Hans and dawidi earned the Water geohash achievement by reaching the (49, 12) geohash on 2011-05-31 by two inflatable kayaks.

dawidi earned the Juggernaut achievement (beta) by reaching a geohash in a straight line from home (with a deviation of less than 1:26) on 2010-07-30.

dawidi earned the Déjà Vu Geohash Achievement by reaching the (49, 12) geohash on 2010-06-22, and previously on 2007-12-25.

dawidi earned the Multihash Achievement by reaching the 2009-10-04 49 12 and 2009-10-04 49 13 geohashes on 2009-10-04.

dawidi earned the Sunrise Geohash Achievement by reaching the (49, 12) geohash on 2009-10-04 to smile at the first rays of sun to cross the horizon.

dawidi earned the Multihash Achievement by reaching the 2009-08-27 54 9 and 2009-08-27 54 10 geohashes on 2009-08-27.

Schorhr, AE and dawidi earned the Water geohash achievement by reaching the (54, 10) geohash on 2009-08-27 by a bright orange pedal boat.

dawidi earned the Multihash Achievement by reaching the 2009-07-21 49 12 and 2009-07-21 49 11 geohashes on 2009-07-21.

dawidi earned the Birthday Geohash Achievement by reaching the (49, 12) geohash on his 27th birthday, 2009-07-21.

dawidi earned the Calendar girl achievement by taking compromising photographs for public consumption at the (49, 12) geohash on 2009-07-21.

dawidi earned the Border geohash achievement by crossing the Germany-Denmark border on 2009-06-26 to reach the (54, 8) geohash.

dawidi earned the Holy hash achievement by reaching the sacred (54, 8) location, which is the village's graveyard, on 2009-06-24.

dawidi certifies that Emma and Christian Carstensen of nearby Soholm earned the Coffin Potato Achievement by occupying a coffin at the (54, 8) geohash from 1973-09-24 and 1984-02-19, respectively, to 2009-06-24.

... and several other achievements (virgin, drag-along, deja-vu, proxy, hashcard, frozen, meet-up, midnight, water...) which I've moved to a separate page.

I'm particularly looking for opportunities for these in the future:

a Border geohash in the Czech Republic, more Proxy Geohash variants, MNIMB Geohash, Consecutive Geohash, more Meet-Up Achievements, Origin Geohash, Tron achievement.