2009-12-22 48 8

Tue 22 Dec 2009 in 48,8: 48.9489331, 8.4932909 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

In a field between Karlsruhe's suburbs Stupferich and Plambach.

Participants

• Koepfel

Plans

Attempting a public transport tron geohash, which, to my knowledge, has never been done before. I've wanted to do that since the day the achievement was created, seeing as being bound to a few possible routes makes this the most challenging form of tron geohashing. I've planned several tron-train geohashes before, but this is the first one that might actually work.

The plan, here's a map for those who want to follow [1]

• Leave house to the north, walk to the tram stop Sinsheimer Straße, take S2 to Hagsfeld Bahnhof (not on the map, since the map only includes buses)
• Take bus 31 (the red line on the right part of the map) to Durlach Friedhof, here's the exact route [2]
• Walk from Friedhof the the stop Durlach Turmberg. The 31 actually goes there, but uses the same road as bus 23, which I'm going to take, for a few meters, which would invalidate the tron geohash. As I have 18 minutes waiting time at Turmberg anyway, this won't cost me any additional time.
• Take bus 23 from Durlach Turmberg to Stupferich Pfefferacker, map [3]
• Walk from there to the hashpoint, which is in a field, enter the field from the north, leave to the south, continue walking to the stop Stupferich Auf der Römerstraße.
• Take bus 47, map [4], back to Zündhütle, from there take tram 2 and tram 4/S2 back home, enter house from the south.

All buses involved go every 20 minutes during the day, trams every 10, so timing isn't an really an issue. I plan to leave my home at about 8:00, arriving at Stumpferich at 8:56.

• Weather update: After lot's of snow and temperatures of -10°C over the weekend, it's now around 1°C and raining like hell. So inb4 drowned rat geohash and muddy shoes (again). Leaving in 30 minutes. 06:16, 22 December 2009 (UTC)

Report

Everything went better than expected. Five minutes after I left my house, the rain stopped. All bus connections worked, too, public transport tron geohash is done. Field was muddy, but I was prepared, wearing more water- and mudproof shoes this time. Most field paths were covered with a layer of ice, yet the temperature was probably above 0°C, so no Frozen geohash. Coordinates were reached at 9:15, snowman was built.

Also, I was trying to create a live broadcast from the hashpoint via ustream's iphone application, the network coverage wasn't good enough though, so I took a short video and uploaded it at home. And here it is.

More to come.