User:PaintedJaguar

From Geohashing
Revision as of 23:19, 14 November 2015 by imported>PaintedJaguar (Added 2015-11-14 expeditions)
Lol-asg.png 45 / m / 52,0

I'm originally from Sheffield, United Kingdom, but moved to Cambridge, United Kingdom in 2001 and have lived there ever since. I discovered geohashing in 2012 completely by accident whilst trying to find out some information about tide times on the North Norfolk coast, and Google sent me to the 2012-09-02 52 0 expedition page. I'm not sure why I'd never heard of it before, given that I'd been reading xkcd since before the original geohashing comic was published!

I don't have a car, and am only an occasional cyclist. Most of the hashpoints I've visited have been reached on foot or by public transport.

Hashcot

I've decided to geohash with a small pink toy caterpillar named Hammersmith (after the London Underground line). Don't ask. More recently, I've also taken along an unnamed blue knitted mouse that doesn't have any eyes. Again, don't ask. Oh, and MrsPaintedJaguar often geohashes with me as well!

Aims

I've decided, quite randomly, that my long-term geohashing goal is to complete a Minesweeper Geohash achievement that includes both graticules that I've lived in, Cambridge and Sheffield. In order to achieve this (without buying a boat), I'll have to centre on the Northampton, United Kingdom graticule.

Expeditions

When/where Expedition count Meetup with Description
Total Success Failure Sat meetup
2012-10-14 51 0 1 1 In a field near Thurrock football ground
2012-10-14 51 -0 2 1 In a park in southwest London, close to Chiswick Park tube station
2012-10-21 52 0 3 2 At the end of Teasel Close in Haverhill
2012-10-31 52 0 4 3 Benjw On the bank of the River Cam in Chesterton
2013-02-03 51 0 5 4 Outside a house on High Wych Road, near the town of Sawbridgeworth
2013-05-12 51 -0 6 5 In shrubland near Waltham Cross and the Lee Valley; also very close to the M25
2013-06-02 52 1 7 6 Just North of Winterton Dunes on the Norfolk coast
2013-06-30 52 -0 8 7 The end of Gery Court in Eaton Ford, about one mile west of St. Neots town centre
2013-07-20 52 0 9 8 1 Benjw On Plantation Road in Sawston
2013-08-03 51 -0 10 9 On Birchwood Way, near How Wood station, just south of St. Albans
2013-08-03 52 0 11 10 Benjw The west bank of the River Great Ouse just south of Kings Lynn, at the appropriately named Eau Brink Road
2013-08-04 52 0 12 11 Benjw On the west bank of a canal near Outwell, in Norfolk
2013-08-05 52 0 13 12 The front lawn of Cambridge University's Faculty of Education, on Hills Road in south Cambridge
2013-09-11 52 0 14 2 The middle of a field adjacent to the River Cam near Waterbeach
2014-06-29 52 0 15 13 In the middle of Sluice Road, between the River Great Ouse and the village of Denver, a couple of miles from Downham Market
2015-08-08 52 0 16 14 2 Benjw, Sourcerer Just off a dirt road in Fulbourn, near Cambridge
2015-09-19 52 0 17 15 3 On the Icknield Way long distance trail, on a track near Honington Airfield, somewhere between Thetford and Bury St Edmunds
2015-09-29 52 0 18 16 On a footpath between Foxton and Newton
2015-10-17 52 0 19 17 The middle of Snettisham Common, near the coast of The Wash
2015-11-05 52 0 20 18 A small lawn just inside the grounds of Homerton College, Cambridge
2015-11-08 51 -0 21 19 On the entrance road to Chells Park, Stevenage
2015-11-14 52 0 22 3 In a field near the village of Lolworth, just off the A14 outside Cambridge
2015-11-14 52 -0 23 20 In a field between the villages of Lolworth and Boxworth, just outside Cambridge