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=== Multiple Geohash Challenges ===
 
=== Multiple Geohash Challenges ===

Revision as of 12:19, 12 August 2008

Three Geohashing Achievement Icons that can be earned.

As well as having the pure and genuine ecstasy of having reached a Geohash, many Geohashers like to complement those feelings with the joy of having won an achievement. There are many different kinds of achievements, ranging from impossible to avoid to statistically impossible.

Some are easily obtainable by just about anyone with time and persistence. The "I'm Better Than You" Achievements represent the literal and figurative pinnacles of the sport, showing current and past record holders for various extremes. Some achievements are merely comedic, not very attainable and unlikely to be achieved. For ease of browsing, they are arranged in sections, alphabetically within each section, with one-line descriptions. Click on the achievement names to see the details of each award and to claim your ribbon.

Location Achievements

Land Geohash

Everyone can earn one of the Basic Location achievement just by going to a geohash. You may need to wait a while, or go to another graticule for the right conditions to arise for a Lucky Location achievement however, and some require you to actually do something other than merely arrive at the location. Supply the proof of your achievement on your expedition page, and award yourself the appropriate ribbon. Some of these come with physical prizes also.

(Alphabetical within sub-category)

Basic Locations

Every geohash you reach qualifies for one of the Basic Location awards. As altitude is not specified in the geohash algorithm, it's also possible for the same point to be reached through more than one medium.

Lucky Locations

The ultimate in lucky locations would place the geohash right where you're sitting as you look it up, but then you wouldn't get to go on an adventure. Be alert for geohashes occurring places that would allow you or someone else to claim one of these achievements.

Couch Potato Geohash

Activities & Attire Achievements

These achievements commemorate what you do, wear, or don't wear en route to or at the geohash.

Getting There

Border Geohash

You have to get to the geohash somehow, and the spirit of adventure encourages you to get out of your car and use alternative transport. Most of these achievement descriptions include a page where you can list the distance you travelled to get to the hash.

Geohash Fun & Games

Snowman Geohash

Challenge Achievements

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MNIMB Geohash

Into every geohash some rain--or raptors--may fall. The challenges in this section commemorate reaching geohashes regardless of external or self-imposed challenges.

Single Geohash Challenges

Multiple Geohash Challenges

Human Interaction Achievements

Police Geohash

Never forget that Geohashing is intended as a way for people to meet. Whether you meet friendly curious strangers, hostile authority figures, or other geohashers, you have achieved something to celebrate.

Timing Achievements

Generally it doesn't matter what time you reach a geohash, but these achievements depend on time or date.

Daily Coordinates

  • Birthday Geohash -- Celebrating your birthday at the geohash
  • Déjà Vu Geohash -- You visit a geohash and have proof you were there on a previous day.
  • First Geohasher Geohash -- Earliest arrival at the day's geohash for your graticule
  • Midnight Geohash -- Visit the hash at midnight. <30W: Old day's hash, >30W: Hash announced for the new day. May be combined with endurance.
  • Sunrise geohash -- Visit the hash at sunrise. May be combined with endurance.

Commemorative Dates

Achievements in every other section on this page represent visiting that day's coordinates in any graticule. Achievements in this section require you to visit coordinates for some date in the past. These are good possibilities for dates when you really feel like geohashing, but the algorithm has produced unreachable coordinates.

  • Origin Geohash -- Visit the geohash in the graticule where you were born, for the day on which you were born.
  • Displaced Origin Geohash -- Visit the geohash for the day on which you were born, in a graticule other than the one in which you were born.

"I'm Better than You" Achievements

"I'm Better than you" Achievements represent extremes, that is the individuals or parties who have ventured to the highest mountain or the deepest cave, the coldest lake or the hottest desert to get a Geohash. These may require a level of toughness, or at least willingness to travel to a graticule that has these extremes. Others you receive just for being you. A handful take into account the story of how you got to the Geohash (e.g. Sexiest), and are subjective enough that multiple people can claim them at once. (No fighting, please). On each page there is a high score table, and if you're brave enough, it may finally be a way to immortalise that Internet alias you use.

NOTE: It is possible to achieve a "best of all the rest" geohash achievement for a particular date, only to be dethroned at a later time, when someone older/younger/taller/etc. takes the award. That's ok, you get to keep your achievement for that time. Just like Babe Ruth had the HR record, even though it's been broken, since then.

Geographic

Geohashers

Subjective Superlatives

There is no final judging on what is easiest or sexiest, nor on whether you should count the cost of buying your own geostationary satellite in the cost of the geohash, but we'll all be entertained by what you report, and you'll get a ribbon for it.

"My Graticule is Better than yours" Achievements

Consolation Prizes

My Kingdom for a Boat

Despite all your preparation. hard work, and defense against raptors, sometimes you are unable to reach the correct location. You've still achieved something, however, and thanks to this section you can say to yourself, "at least I get a ribbon for this!" To earn these ribbons you must get out there and make the attempt, right up to the point where you cannot go on. It is not, for example, sufficient for the Cliffs of Despair award to look at the terrain contours in Google Maps and declare the grade impassable.

Proof

It is recommended that you take photographic proof to demonstrate your achievement. This is, however, only important for proving to the community that you are an accomplished Geohasher and, for many, personal satisfaction is enough. For maximum recognition and commemoration, try to obtain one photograph including:

1. You! (The Stupid Grintm is optional.)
2. Something displaying the date
3. A Geosync device showing your location or alternatively
Something in the photo that proves your location.

Particular achievements may require further or more stringent proof, specified on the individual achievement pages.

Ribbons

There are a collection of ribbons that can be won. Just add the template listed in the achievement to the Expedition and/or user page as appropriate.