Berlin, Germany

The Berlin graticule is at latitude 52, longitude 13. It completely encloses the cities of Berlin and Potsdam. It extends as far as Zehdenick and Joachimsthal to the north, Luckenwalde to the south, Storkow and Falkenberg to the east and Potsdam to the west. It also contains a part of the Spreewald and some nice lakes, and a lot of arable land, particularly in Brandenburg.

Upcoming Locations

New hashes are announced at 15:30 local time on the previous day, and on Friday for Saturday, Sunday and Monday.

48 hour meteogram (weather forecast)
all the current hashes on activegeohasher.com
Tuesday, 27th April - On Hanauer Straße, very close to S Heidelberger Platz - seems like a very easy geohash!
Wednesday, 28th April - Another inner city hash - this time in a garden colony in Schönholz

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Local Geohashers

Name	Base*	Recent activity	Active?	GPS?	Bike?	Car?
Hiro Protagonist	Dahlem/Teltow	recent activity	Active - Regular	No	Yes	No
davidc	Mitte	recent activity	Active - Regular	Yes	Yes	No
Phoenix	Spandau	recent activity	Active - Occasional	Yes	Yes	Yes
Hessophanes	Charlottenburg	recent activity	Active - Occasional	Yes	Yes	Yes
pari	?	recent activity	Active - Occasional	Yes	Yes	No
lyx	Moabit	recent activity	Active - Occasional	Yes	Yes	No
Trurl	?	recent activity	Active	?	?	?
Jerrome	-	recent activity	Active	Yes	Yes	Motorbike
JUB	?	recent activity	Active	?	?	?
relet	60,10	recent activity	Occasional	Yes	No	On demand
Sneak	?	recent activity	Inactive	?	?	?
Thilo	?	recent activity	Inactive	?	?	?
Per	?	recent activity	Inactive	?	?	?
erlehmann	?	(no userpage)	Inactive	?	?	?
Lars	?	recent activity	Inactive	?	?	?
Syphonophorae	Friedrichshain	recent activity	Active	Not yet	Yes	No

* Area you live in. Feel free to write "-" here if you'd rather not say!

Visiting Geohashers

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Probabilities

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

37.03%	Forests
29.14%	Fields
11.23%	Natural reserves
9.19%	Roads
6.84%	Settlements
3.84%	Highways
2.12%	Water
0.62%	Industrial

According to Public transport probability, using OpenStreetMap data, there is a 27.58% chance of the hash landing within 2km of a train station, or 47.45% chance of it landing within 2km of a train or bus stop.

Increasing the search to a 5km radius, there's a 68.63% chance of it landing within 5km of a train station, or 81.61% chance of it landing within 5km of a train or bus stop.

Basically, this means that when being out there, you should go and map those thousands of missing bus stops.

Graticule Ribbons

This graticule earned the We're Better Than You achievement

by finally beating Mannheim in the Most active graticules after the (52, 13) geohash on 2009-09-01.

Berlin, Germany earned the Largest geohash achievement

by congregating at the (52, 13) geohash on 2009-08-29 with a participation of 12 geohashers.

The Berlin, Germany graticule (52 13) earned the Mostly Active Graticule achievement

for the month of 2008-10 in the category coordinates reached by being the location of 6 successful expeditions.

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Past Meetups

sorted by date of actual expedition, latest first

April 24th 2010 - Four on a midnight-circus-no batteries-animal coffin potato honourable mention-geohash
April 19th 2010 - Hiro and Hessophanes fail to reach the hash but find many crane components instead.
March 24th 2010 - syphonophorae visits the spot in the area of allotments.
March 20th 2010 - davidc visits the a graveyard on a flightpath in Reineckendorf.
March 14th 2010 - davidc celebrates a snowy Pi-day.
March 4th 2010 - Phoenix and relet visit a garden colony in Potsdam, missing Benpicco.
February 16th 2010 - relet, Jub and JP visit a hash and hardly make it back home
February 9th 2010 - Hiro, Jub and Kolja discover a time anomaly at the Berlin-Brandenburg border
February 3rd 2010 - Hiro and two drag-alongs rush to reach the hash in Stahnsdorf just before midnight
January 20th 2010 - Hiro, JUB, Hessophanes and relet at the scene of a heinous murder.
January 12th 2010 - Phoenix, lyx and relet build a snowman in Birkenwerder.

Many more expeditions can be seen in our past meetup lists for the years 2009 and 2008.

Güstrow	Neubrandenburg	Szczecin, Poland
Brandenburg	Berlin	Frankfurt (Oder)
Leipzig	Dresden	Cottbus
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