Rotterdam, Netherlands

The Zuid-west Nederland / Antwerpen graticule is at latitude 51, longitude 4. It contains the cities of Antwerpen, Bergen op Zoom, Breda, Dordrecht, Roosendaal en Rotterdam.

A reverse regional achievement on the level of provinces is hard here since there is an area of about 2400 square meters of Gelderland in this graticule (0.00003% of the graticule). The change of a hash falling in this part are once every 9126 years.

For the latest location, we could use this Geohashing ATOM feed. And then plot that into Google maps.

Today's Location

[2024-12-18 Zuidwest Nederland / Antwerpen]

Random but interesting dates

2008-05-20 51 4 was in a stretch of farm land just south of Zevenbergen, The Netherlands.
2008-05-21 51 4 was near a river or canal near Herentals, Belgium.
2008-05-22 51 4 was right in someone's house in Papendrecht.
2008-05-25 51 4 was in the Rotterdam harbor area, a few meters off the dam splitting the Nieuwe Waterweg and the Caland Kanaal.
2008-05-27 51 4 was this location in Lier, Belgium. --MadJo 10:56, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
2008-05-28 51 4 was this location between Battenoord and Herkingen. --MadJo

The location of May 28, 2008 is here, between Herkingen and Battenoord. It's a piece of farm land. Once again I found my way to Panoramio.com, where I found this photo of the road, which was taken just a few meters south from there, and a picture of the three windmills there. --Madjo

2009-04-25 51 4 was in the Wouwse Plantage. --Jorisslob
2009-07-25 was in Werkendam --Joris
2010-02-20 was close to Giessendam --Joris
2010-09-11 was in a social center in the Van Reynstraat, Rotterdam --Joris
2012-05-25 was on the N15 highway near the Maasvlakte -- Mennoowh
2013-09-06 51 4 is just 1 km away from where DeFre picked up that bottle of elderberry wine and 1 mile from his parents' house (but he couldn't leave the house because of work)
2015-05-19 right on top of former railway line 56

Notable Dates

2008-06-21 51 4 was just in front of a chimney factory in Nieuwerkerk a/d IJssel, The Netherlands. One person waited at 16:00 but nobody else showed up.
In fact, on that date, Azijn & Friends had made it to the location an hour early and left early, because they needed to be home on time to catch the EC football match. They left some markings, and pictures are available here.
2008-07-12 51 4 was in the country side near De Heen, a small village near Steenbergen in Noord-Brabant. One person was near there around 1600, waited a bit, but found no-one else.
2008-09-27 51 4 was in Schiedam (close to Rotterdam); a spontaneous meeting of 3+1 people.
2008-11-17 51 4 was near Antwerp. Amras and Chiropter went.

Missed Dates

2008-05-24 51 4: According to the ATOM feed, the location for the Saturday meet is here in Hoogstraten, Belgium. I hope I can make time to get there. It looks like I can't make it this week. Besides that, there is something wrong with the location. I had found this location both through the tool and the atom feed. And right now I'm getting a different location. I'm going to forgo this week, because of time constraints on my side and because the new location is a bit far away.

People

MadJo is currently one of the maintainers here. He lives in Bergen op Zoom.
Nazgjunk lives about 200m to the east of this graticule and might very well pop up some time.
Koyochi lives in Antwerp.
DWizzy is at the very top of the map, above Rotterdam, and might cycle his way to a location.
Keith is probably even closer to the top of the map and can do anything but drive a car to get to a location (also has no GPS).
Istari has parents living in Barendrecht, so when he is there he might check if he is able to make it.
Jovel lives in Halsteren.
Amras lives in Steenbergen. He is a good friend of Chiropter and he always hopes that the next location will be in the center of the university building where he studies (campus Middelheim, Antwerpen). Of course, he also aims for the couch potatoe achievement, and dreams of achieving the Puppet Master achievement.
Chiropter lives in Antwerp. He is a good friend of Amras and hopes for some closer location (closer to Antwerp)
MichaMicha lives in Dordrecht. But works most of the time in Woensdrecht, near Bergen op Zoom. He's never been to a geohash, but will soon.
RichardRichard lives also in Dordrecht and is a friend of MichaMicha.
Jorisslob lives just south of Rotterdam.
DeFre lives in Antwerp. Tries to get his motorcycle licence. Exercises by finding geohashes. (Locally as he cannot cross the border on his bike. Yet!)
Blauwe BIC lives in Rotterdam and checks the hash every day. Yes, even in the nine year gap between some of his expeditions, he did check the has nearly every single day of those nine years. He is both a very active and very inactive geohasher.

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