User:Ilpadre
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About Me
I'm a physics student from Heidelberg, Germany and currently working on my diploma thesis. I will visit hashpoints reachable by bike or foot and sometimes those reachable by train. I own a GPS since January 2010 and a VRN ticket (that allows me to use public transport in the Rhein-Neckar area) since March 2010.
Future Plans
Current status/plans: Will be in 50,9 during the Easter holidays. Will try 2010-04-03 49 10 on the way.
Travel Plans
Work will take me to:
Achievements to Get
It's always nice to win an achievement along with a successful expedition. For me, some are more desirable than others.
- Walk to as many hashpoints as possible and beat the current distance record. For a complete list of all my walk hashes (successful or not), see Walk Geohashes. (already earned: 11 times)
- Send more hashcards. (already earned: 2 times)
- Travel some distance to a hashpoint using the power of an animal. (not yet earned)
- Get a regional or reverse regional achievement. (not yet earned)
- Get the MacGyver achievement by building a vehicle to get to a hashpoint during an expedition. (not yet earned)
- Get the A Tale of Two Hashes achievement. (not yet earned)
Things to Do at Hashpoints
- Combine geohashing with guerilla gardening.
- Revisit old hashpoints and document how the place changed (the above point makes revisiting particularly interesting).
- Clean up the hashpoint area.
- Leave a hashmark.
- Leave a hashmark big and durable enough that it can be seen from space. Then wait for the next Google Earth imagery update.
Statistics
Total expeditions: | 40 in 9 graticules |
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36 in 8 graticules |
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4 in 2 graticules |
Walked: |
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By bike: |
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By public transport: |
12 |
By car: |
4 |
Expeditions
Regular Expeditions
Most recent first:
2010-03-13
Darmstadt (49,8) |
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2010-03-10
Ladenburg (49,8) |
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2010-02-14
Sinsheim (49,8) |
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2010-02-06
Renchen (48,7) |
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2010-01-20
Heidelberg (49,8) |
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2010-01-06
Darmstadt (49,8) |
ilpadre earned the Frozen Geohash Achievement
by reaching the (49, 8) geohash on 2010-01-06 while the temperature was below the freezing point of water.
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2009-12-26
Volkers (Bad Brückenau) (50,9) |
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2009-11-30
Bad Schönborn (49,8) |
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2009-11-19
Ladenburg (49,8) |
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2009-11-14
Karlsruhe (49,8) |
Stacking achievement
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2009-11-04
Sandhausen (49,8) |
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2009-10-09
Hamburg (53,9) |
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2009-09-08
Mannheim (49,8) |
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2009-08-27
Sandhausen (49,8) |
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2009-08-19
Weinheim (49,8) |
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2009-07-23
Altenbach (Schriesheim) (49,8) |
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2009-07-20
Heidelberg (49,8) |
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2009-07-12
Frankfurt (50,8) |
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2009-07-09
Otterstadt (49,8) |
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2009-07-04
Bensheim (49,8) |
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2009-06-23
Epfenbach (49,8) |
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2009-06-15
Neurott (Heidelberg) (49,8) |
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2009-06-08
Lobbach (49,8) |
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2009-05-13
Speyer (49,8) |
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2009-04-30
Heidelberg (49,8) |
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2009-03-26
Neu-Ulm (48,10) |
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2009-02-24
Hoffenheim (49,8) |
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2009-02-15
Oftersheim (49,8) |
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2009-02-13
Dossenheim (49,8) |
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2009-01-28
Grein (49,8) |
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2009-01-21 |
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2009-01-12 |
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2008-12-30 & 2008-12-31 Wörth & Maximiliansau (49,8) |
ilpadre earned the Frozen Geohash Achievement
by reaching the (49, 8) geohash on 2008-12-30 while the temperature was below the freezing point of water.
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2008-12-10
Mauer (49,8) |
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2008-11-24 |
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2008-11-01 |
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2008-10-29
Heidelberg (49,8) |
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2008-10-26
Heidelberg (49,8) |
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2008-10-22
Heidelberg (49,8) |
Template:Virgin graticule
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Irregular Expeditions
2008-12-21
Heidelberg (49,8) |
Retro expedition to a conveniently placed 2008-07-09 hashpoint |
Videos
Videos of my expeditions (5 so far).
Wiki Stuff
I like drawing xkcd-ish images for achievement ribbons. See my gallery of achievement images. I keep looking out for newly created achievements that need a ribbon image, and for old images that could be improved.
To-Do List
- Write missing expedition reports
- Add yet unnamed graticules to the All Graticules list (constantly looking for remote or interesting graticules). Name the Antarctica graticules.
- Draw icon for Stacking achievement
Stencils
I recently discovered the art of stencils for easily reproducible hashmarks on wood and other biodegradable material to leave at the hashpoint. I left the first of these markers at the 2010-03-13 49 8 hashpoint. Others are at the ready:
Misc.
“ | :) Ar, a hash! Oh, Sahara ):
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—Geohashing palindrome
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- Geohashers
- Geohashers in their 40s
- Geohashers in 49,8
- Public transport geohash achievement
- Geohashing in the media
- Bicycle geohash achievement
- Birthday geohash achievement
- No trespassing consolation prize
- Frozen geohash achievement
- Pub geohash achievement
- Walk geohash achievement
- Police geohash achievement
- Blinded by science consolation prize
- Train wreck consolation prize
- Ambassador achievement
- Calendar girl achievement
- Geoflashing achievement
- Geotrash achievement
- Hashcard achievement
- Sunrise geohash achievement
- Border geohash achievement
- Midnight geohash achievement
- Consecutive geohash achievement
- Last man standing achievement
- Holy hash achievement
- Snowman geohash achievement
- Drag-along achievement
- Déjà vu geohash achievement
- Addicted to geohashing
- Geohashers in Germany