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I'm Brandon. I'm a journalism student in Chicago, from Ohio originally. (The Wilmington, OH graticule.) For a personal profile, friend me on Facebook with "geohashing" or "xkcd" as an accompanying message. My blog's at brandonsmith.com; professional stuff's at brandonsmith.com/about.

I'm a newbie hasher. OK, as a matter of fact, as I write this I haven't hashed before. I hope to start soon, maybe this Saturday. I'd use public transit, bike and walking exclusively.

I've heard most Chicago points fall in the lake, so I'd be moving the coordinate horizontally to the land in these cases. The lakefront trail's 18 miles long, folks!

Find me on the irc channels #geohashing, #xkcd-love and #xkcd-signal as Typewriter.

"Near Future" exploits

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"Eventually" exploits

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Geohashing Equipment

  • Road bike in working order
  • Camera phone

Wanted Equipment

  • Cold-weather bike clothes
  • iPhone or Android phone
  • Mountain bike
  • SLR

The rest of this profile is a copy-paste of Robyn's profile, as filler text. I hope to expand to such depth.

Statistics

Graticules

  • Hashes Attempted: 98 in 35 different graticules
  • Hashes Achieved: 63 in 29 different graticules (+2 more without proof)
  • Retrohashes: 1
  • Centurion-eligible Saturday Meetups: 12 in 6 different graticules
  • Geohashers met: 28 in 6 different graticules
  • Continents geohashed: 1

Things that have thwarted me

  • Private property : 11
  • Being chicken: 1
  • Body of water: 1
  • Transportation failure: 3
  • Mis-setting the GPS: 1
  • Time constraints: 4
  • Terrain/weather too nasty to continue safely: 7
  • Inability to use a camera: 1
  • Went to an alternate instead:3

Never turn down a chance to geohash.

All Geohashes Attempted

Most recent are listed first. Single horizontal lines every ten missions, and double lines every fifty, to facilitate counting. Bold numbers are the success count and bold words indicate an award or consolation prize taken for that attempt. When I get to 100 I'll move them to their own page.

I've decided to count a geohash "successful" if I:

(a) get to within the accuracy figure of the coordinates as shown by my GPS,
(b) have the GPS show a distance remaining of zero,
(c) get to where it is obvious I could reach the geohash, but refrain from trampling crops,
(d) for airhashes, take a readable photo within 10 seconds of each latitude and longitude, or

The one time I thought I would have to invoke option (c), the geohash came to me.

... a bunch not yet documented ...


Geohashers Met

Alphabetical by username. Date is first meeting at a geohash.

Achievements

These are the ribbons I have earned or updated this month. I have moved all the older ribbons to their own page.

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Robyn earned the MacGyver Honourable Mention
by constructing a raft out of driftwood, rope, duct tape and old bicycle tires and paddling to within 111 m of (49, -123) geohash on 2009-07-11.
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Wade & Robyn earned the Wedding anniversary geohash achievement
by reaching the (49, -123) geohash for 1994-07-08 on 2009-07-08.
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Robyn earned the Walk geohash Achievement
by reaching the (49, -122) geohash on 2009-07-07 on foot, travelling a distance of 42.6 km.
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Progress Towards Multihash Achievements


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