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Contents
Location
In a forest south of Bad Wildbad
Participants
Plans
Bad Wildbad can be reached by light rail (S6) from Pforzheim and Karlsruhe. One can use the Sommerbergbahn on the way from the station to the hash, making it the first (afaik) expedition using a funicular as mode of transportation. Koepfel talk 20:57, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
- Do you have any plans about when to go there? I'm actually considering doing this because of the funicular. Might try to combine it with some other destinations during the day. --Ekorren 17:43, 24 October 2009 (UTC)
Webcams
There are two webcams in Bad Wildbad that I might pass by during the expedition.
One is located at the Kurplatz, a person holding a larger sign might be recognizable. [1]
The other one is located at upper station of the funicular at the Sommerberg. This one can be controlled by the user, however, it seems only be able to film the valley and not the actual station. If you pan to the very left, you can see a small platform, that seems to be accessible to the public. I'll try to get there. [2]
When I'm near one of them, I might alert IRC (via iphone).
Results of the geohashcam
Well ... it sort of worked! MykaDragonBlue and Sermoa were watching the Kurplatz camera for about an hour before Koepfel arrived so we figured out that it switches between 5 different views and stays on each for about 15 minutes. Having seen all 5 views we got a pretty good mental map of the area so that we were able to direct Koepfel around via irc.
Panorama
Here is a panorama that i created by stitching together the 5 views offered to us:
Koepfel is seen in front of the flags holding up a sign.
Animated video
This sequence shows Koepfel by the fountain, trying to hold up a sign for us to read, but there was no chance we could see what it says. If only Koepfel could have got up on that grassy roof, haha! We started trying to remote control Koepfel through the irc channel:
- 15:39 - koepfel please make your body in to an X
- 15:46 - photograph that pink hoodie person!
- 15:47 - tell them the internet says hi!
- 15:51 - you could play The Lying Down Game
Geohashcam gallery
I didn't manage to get the body-shape letters very well. Some i thought i'd got but my screenshot must have been delayed. Maybe MykaDragonBlue managed to get them better. Here are some reasonably good shots:
