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Someone emailed a link to an xkcd cartoon (not THE cartoon), I followed it, ended up consuming them all that same day. Didn't realise geohashing actually existed when I first saw THE cartoon, but later looked around on the xkcd site and found links to it.

So since late November 2009 I've been watching my graticule for reachable spots, but haven't actually made it to any yet. The idea seems very romantic but when you've spent 10 minutes stuck in traffic on the North Circular trying to get to a spot outside Luton for no defensible reason it becomes a bit less so...

I work around 51.5,-0.08 and divide my non-working time between 51.4,-0.2 and 51.51,-0.26 (numbers deliberately rounded out of vague paranoia!). That seems a pretty large triangle to me, but in graticule terms it's fairly tiny.

I'm a software developer (surprise!).