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== Location ==
 
== Location ==
 
Northern boundary hedge of West Witney Primary School, Witney.  
 
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== Expedition ==
 
== Expedition ==
Success at 14:16. Details to follow.  
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I wasn't supposed to be here. I was supposed to be on the Isle of Man with my partner, celebrating our <code>0x10</code>th anniversary. But this week's been a week of disasters: my partner lost her job, our plane to the Isle of Man got cancelled, and then I got sick (most-likely, I got to catch airport germs from people I got to sit next to on an aircraft which was then cancelled before it had a chance to take off). So mostly this week I've been sat at home playing video games.
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But the dog needed a walk, and my partner needed to go to the supermarket, so I had her drop me and the geopooch off in West Witney to find the hashpoint and then walk to meet them after she'd collected the shopping. I couldn't find my GPSr, so I used my phone, and it was reporting low accuracy until I rebooted it, by which time I'd walked past the hashpoint and had to double-back, much to the doggo's confusion.
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I reached the hashpoint at 14:16 (and probably a few points before than, owing to my navigation failure). I needed to stand very close to the fence to get within the circle of uncertainty, but at least I didn't have to reach through and into the school grounds.
  
 
== Tracklog ==
 
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{{ Tracklog | Activity_11654052401.gpx }}
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* Download: [[:File:Activity_11654052401.gpx]]
  
 
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Image:Screenshot 20230727 141637 Geohash Droid.png | Proof (from the app)
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Image:20230727 141654.jpg | Looking East from the hashpoint
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Image:20230727 141651.jpg | Looking West from the hashpoint
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Image:20230727 141710.jpg | A pair of silly grins
 
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Latest revision as of 14:42, 27 July 2023

Dan Q also wrote about this expedition on his blog. For more details and higher-resolution pictures, see this expedition's log at https://danq.me/2023/07/27/geohashing-expedition-2023-07-27-51-1/

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Location

Northern boundary hedge of West Witney Primary School, Witney.

Participants

Expedition

I wasn't supposed to be here. I was supposed to be on the Isle of Man with my partner, celebrating our 0x10th anniversary. But this week's been a week of disasters: my partner lost her job, our plane to the Isle of Man got cancelled, and then I got sick (most-likely, I got to catch airport germs from people I got to sit next to on an aircraft which was then cancelled before it had a chance to take off). So mostly this week I've been sat at home playing video games.

But the dog needed a walk, and my partner needed to go to the supermarket, so I had her drop me and the geopooch off in West Witney to find the hashpoint and then walk to meet them after she'd collected the shopping. I couldn't find my GPSr, so I used my phone, and it was reporting low accuracy until I rebooted it, by which time I'd walked past the hashpoint and had to double-back, much to the doggo's confusion.

I reached the hashpoint at 14:16 (and probably a few points before than, owing to my navigation failure). I needed to stand very close to the fence to get within the circle of uncertainty, but at least I didn't have to reach through and into the school grounds.

Tracklog

My smartwatch kept a tracklog:


Photos