Difference between revisions of "2019-07-23 47 7"

Latest revision as of 20:25, 15 June 2020

Location

Rodersdorf near Basel, Switzerland

Plans

A mere 13km as the bird flies, in a country as yet unhashed for me. Weather was nice, map indicated it was reachable, long daylight hours... Go!

Participants

Rincewind

Expedition

I looked the nearest street up in the Geohash Droid app and let my hashmobile guide and carry me there. I knew from the map it was close to a crossroads on the very end of Rodersdorf at the last building, already within agriculture of different sorts. I parked the car at the crossroads and walked on towards the indicated direction. When the GPS display indicated 1m and I couldn't get it to flip back to zero again without falling into the hedges in my respectable-person-costume required for tomorrow's working day, I called it off as reasonably close and a success.
basically, the hash was just two or three meters off the field road, at the edge of a tiny river in the brush. On the way back, I saw a gentleman in the garden next to the hash coordinates being willingly busy half-hidden behind some stuff and greeted him. Suspecting he wasn't there by chance I asked him whether he was curious what I was doing just there, and indeed, he politely agreed that he was curious indeed...
I explained to him the chance adventures based on Randall's comic and he understood it was a way to get around and see things in a game. Fair enough I think. His wife and dog joining in the explanation, I met a nice swiss couple on the expedition and made my way back to Basel again.
"Of course", I forgot the mini USB cable required for the GPS screenshot download. ~~Will follow.~~Finally updated! (2020-06-15)

Photos

Certainly not a halo.
Upon starting in Basel
View towards the hash point (went further in just then)
Beautiful surroundings looking from the coordinates
Guardians-of-the-hash accomodation
Screenshots of the GPS unit. Did a lot of dancing for "1m".

Achievements

Rincewind earned the Land geohash achievement

by reaching the (47, 7) geohash on 2019-07-23.

Rincewind has visited an Easy Geohash

by reaching the (47, 7) geohash on 2019-07-23 without really trying.

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 == Location ==
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+Rodersdorf near Basel, Switzerland
+== Plans ==
+A mere 13km as the bird flies, in a country as yet unhashed for me.
+Weather was nice, map indicated it was reachable, long daylight hours... Go!
 == Participants ==
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+[[User:Rincewind|Rincewind]]
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-== Plans ==
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 == Expedition ==
 <!-- how it all turned out. your narrative goes here. -->
+I looked the nearest street up in the Geohash Droid app and let my hashmobile guide and carry me there. I knew from the map it was close to a crossroads on the very end of Rodersdorf at the last building, already within agriculture of different sorts.
+I parked  the car at the crossroads and walked on towards the indicated direction. When the GPS display indicated 1m and I couldn't get it to flip back to zero again without falling into the hedges in my respectable-person-costume required for tomorrow's working day, I called it off as reasonably close and a success.<br>
+basically, the hash was just two or three meters off the field road, at the edge of a tiny river in the brush.
+On the way back, I saw a gentleman in the garden next to the hash coordinates being willingly busy half-hidden behind some stuff and greeted him. Suspecting he wasn't there by chance I asked him whether he was curious what I was doing just there, and indeed, he politely agreed that he was curious indeed... <br>
+I explained to him the chance adventures based on Randall's comic and he understood it was a way to get around and see things in a game. Fair enough I think. His wife and dog joining in the explanation, I met a nice swiss couple on the expedition and made my way back to Basel again.
+<br>"Of course", I forgot the mini USB cable required for the GPS screenshot download. <s>Will follow.</s>Finally updated! (2020-06-15)
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+== Photos ==
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-Image:2019-07-23_47_7_Rincewind_1563909284380.jpg|Hell, yeah. It was about time, too.
+Image:2019-07-23_47_7_Rincewind_1563909284380.jpg|Certainly not a halo.
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+Image:2019-07-23_47_7_Rincewind_1563913982995.jpg|Upon starting in Basel
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+Image:2019-07-23_47_7_Rincewind_1563914090805.jpg|View towards the hash point (went further in just then)
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+Image:2019-07-23_47_7_Rincewind_1563914146407.jpg|Beautiful surroundings looking from the coordinates
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+Image:2019-07-23_47_7_Rincewind_1563914234168.jpg|Guardians-of-the-hash accomodation
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+Image:2019-07-23 47 7-gpsproof.jpg|Screenshots of the GPS unit. Did a lot of dancing for "1m".
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