Hello everyone! I'm from Uppsala and I'm going to try some geohashing. :)
Contents
Expeditions
# | Graticule* | Status | Expedition page | 5 word summery | Location |
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1 | 59,17 | Success | 2010-11-07 59 17 | Initial and bull escaping hash. | In a very small forest in Dalby outside Uppsala. |
2 | 59,18 | Failure | 2010-11-13 59 18 | Hunting scared inexperienced GPS hasher. | A few thousand meters into a forest outside Uppsala. |
3 | 59,17 | Success | 2010-11-18 59 17 | Crazy walker defeats Mother Nature. | 700 meters into a dense forest about 30 km from Uppsala. |
4 | 59,17 | Success | 2010-12-07 59 17 | Non-forest pizza and gingerbread geohashing. | In the middle of a snowy field somewhat 50 km from Uppsala. |
5 | 59,17 | Success | 2010-12-10 59 17 | Frozen sunset for bus rider. | In a field just outside Uppsala. |
6 | 59,17 | Success | 2010-12-20 59 17 | Lucky house circulation town geohasher. | In a stairway in a house in Årsta, Uppsala. |
7 | 64,20 | Success | 2010-12-28 64 20 | Extremely cold northern cliff-top hashpoint. | In a snowy forest pretty near Krångfors, Skellefteå. |
8 | 60,17 | Success | 2011-01-25 60 17 | Windy and snowy field hashpoint. | A few kilometers into the forest, in a field. North of Uppsala. |
9 | 59,17 | Success | 2011-02-04 59 17 | Raining town walking geohash expedition. | In the south-eastern parts of town, a few km from school. |
10 | 60,17 | Success | 2011-02-06 60 17 | North of Uppsala some hundred meters into a forest. | |
11 | 62,12 | Success | 2011-02-26 62 12 | Snowy snow expedition with snow. | 600 meters into the forest through deep snow. |
* Home graticule - Adjacent to home graticule - Other
Records
Private records
- Hash furthest away from home(as the crows flies): 562 km
- Hash closest to home(as the crows flies): 3.90 km
- Longest walk: 45.79km
- Longest time spending geohashing: 10 hours
- Number of transportations used(to reach a hash): 4
- Walking
- Bike
- Bus
- Kicksled
- Most geohashers met during a single expedition: 0
- Total number of geohashers met: 0
Public records
These are the records(if any) that I hold among all geohashers. I encourage you to try to beat them, just remember to write a good story afterwards.
- I am currently holding the first position of Walk geohash with a walked distance of 45.79km.
Goals
These are goals I'm hoping to complete.
- Meet another geohasher.
- Beat my own Walk geohash record.
- Minesweep the Uppsala graticule.
- Have great fun all the time.
- Reach a geohash in each of Sweden's (116) graticules.
- Hash outside of Sweden.
Questions
Q: Why did you started geohashing?
A: I've been a XKCD fan since my sister introduced me to the strips and when I by chance(I was googling for a XKCD strip) found this wiki I realized that geohashing was something real. It seemed like fun and I tried it and now I'm stuck.
Q:Why are your pictures often blurry?
A:I'm using a small camera that fits in my jacked pocket and I usually operate it with only one hand while I'm still walking. The reason for this is either cause I'm in a hurry or that it's freezing cold outside(can't operate the camera with gloves). Sometimes it's both.
Achievements
Vswe earned the Circus Geohash Achievement
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Vswe earned the No Batteries Geohash Achievement
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Vswe earned the Picnic achievement
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Vswe earned the Land geohash achievement
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Vswe earned the Prize poultry Consolation Prize
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Vswe earned the Walk geohash Achievement
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Vswe earned the Drowned Rat Geohash Honourable Mention
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Vswe earned the Public transport geohash achievement
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Vswe earned the Frozen Geohash Achievement
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Vswe achieved level 1 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement
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Vswe achieved level 1 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement
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Fun stuff
http://vswe.codecall.net/Minesweeper/?region=SE&user=Vswe
If you want to send anything fun to me, like a Hashcard, here's my address:
Raketgatan 18
75337 Uppsala
Sweden
Address it to Vidar Swenning
- Geohashers
- Geohashers in their 30s
- Geohashers in 59,17
- Circus geohash achievement
- No batteries geohash achievement
- Picnic achievement
- Land geohash achievement
- Prize poultry consolation prize
- Walk geohash achievement
- Drowned rat geohash achievement
- Public transport geohash achievement
- Frozen geohash achievement
- Minesweeper geohash achievement
- Geohashers in Sweden
- Addicted to geohashing