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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 unavoidable to statistically impossible.
 
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 unavoidable to statistically impossible.
  
Some are easily obtainable by just about anyone with time and persistence. The [[Achievements#"I'm Better than You" Achievements|"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. An alphabetical list linking to all achievements by name, but without descriptions, is available on the [[:Category:Achievements|Achievements Category page]].
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Some are easily obtainable by just about anyone with time and persistence. The [[Achievements#"I'm Better than You" Achievements|"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.
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* [[:Category:Achievements]] - Links to all the achievements without descriptions.
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* [[Proposed achievements]] - How to propose a new achievement.
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* [[:Category:Proposed_achievements]] - A list of proposals in the Proposed achievements category.
  
 
'''Be sure to click through and read the page describing an achievement before you claim it.''' Many of the requirements are not obvious from the names and/or short descriptions.
 
'''Be sure to click through and read the page describing an achievement before you claim it.''' Many of the requirements are not obvious from the names and/or short descriptions.
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Every geohash you reach qualifies for one of the Basic Location awards: Land, Water or Air. 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. There are also a few special cases here, stretching the meaning of 'basic.'
 
Every geohash you reach qualifies for one of the Basic Location awards: Land, Water or Air. 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. There are also a few special cases here, stretching the meaning of 'basic.'
*[[Air_Geohash|Air Geohash]] -- To geohash while in the air.
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*[[Air geohash achievement]] -- To geohash while in the air.
 
*[[Land geohash achievement]] -- For getting to a geohash on land. This is most people's first achievement.
 
*[[Land geohash achievement]] -- For getting to a geohash on land. This is most people's first achievement.
**[[Goingdeep geohash|Underground Geohash]] -- Reaching a geohash while underground  
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**[[Going deep geohash achievement]] -- Reaching a geohash while underground  
*[[Water Geohash]] -- Reaching a geohash that lies in water. Probably requires a boat
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*[[Water geohash achievement]] -- Reaching a geohash that lies in water. Probably requires a boat
**[[Underwater Geohash]] -- Reaching a geohash while ''under''water.
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**[[Underwater geohash achievement]] -- Reaching a geohash while ''under''water.
 
**[[Walking on water geohash achievement]] -- Being at geohash while on the surface of the water, on foot.
 
**[[Walking on water geohash achievement]] -- Being at geohash while on the surface of the water, on foot.
  
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*[[Cross that bridge achievement]] -- You reach the coordinates while on a pre-existing bridge.
 
*[[Cross that bridge achievement]] -- You reach the coordinates while on a pre-existing bridge.
 
*[[Cubicle geohash achievement]] -- Location is at your office
 
*[[Cubicle geohash achievement]] -- Location is at your office
*[[GeoSquishy#Achievements|GeoSquishy Geohash]] -- Geohash falls near a vendor of flavoured slush drinks
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*[[GeoSquishy|GeoSquishy Geohash]] -- Geohash falls near a vendor of flavoured slush drinks
 
*[[Golf Geohash]] -- The geohash falls at a golf course, and you cause a golf ball to land at the geohash point.
 
*[[Golf Geohash]] -- The geohash falls at a golf course, and you cause a golf ball to land at the geohash point.
 
*[[Hash collision achievement]] -- Find an already existing geocache at a geohash.
 
*[[Hash collision achievement]] -- Find an already existing geocache at a geohash.
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*[[Hobbit achievement]] -- Reach and return from the geohash in the style of a hobbit: barefoot, fed, and bearing a ring.
 
*[[Hobbit achievement]] -- Reach and return from the geohash in the style of a hobbit: barefoot, fed, and bearing a ring.
 
*[[Juggernaut achievement]] -- Reach the hash following a straight line, overcoming all obstacles.
 
*[[Juggernaut achievement]] -- Reach the hash following a straight line, overcoming all obstacles.
*[[Maker Achievement]] -- The geohash is reached in a vehicle built largely by the geohasher. Upgrade to the [[MacGyver Achievement]] if you built or improvised the vehicle especially for that hash.
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*[[MacGyver achievement]] -- Like the [[Maker Achievement]] but you built or improvised the vehicle specially for that hash on the day.
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*[[Maker Achievement]] -- The geohash is reached in a vehicle built largely by the geohasher.
 
*[[Public transport geohash achievement]] -- Taking only the bus, train, subway, or other mass transit
 
*[[Public transport geohash achievement]] -- Taking only the bus, train, subway, or other mass transit
 
*[[Puppet Master Geohash]] -- Causing a non-geohasher to reach the geohash and return with proof
 
*[[Puppet Master Geohash]] -- Causing a non-geohasher to reach the geohash and return with proof
*[[Relay Geohash]] -- Have multiple people relay the GPS to the geohash.
 
 
*[[Speed racer achievement]] -- Driving through a road-located hash at maximum possible/legal speed
 
*[[Speed racer achievement]] -- Driving through a road-located hash at maximum possible/legal speed
 
*[[Thumbs Up Geohash]] -- Hitchhiking
 
*[[Thumbs Up Geohash]] -- Hitchhiking
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Geohashers are enouraged to [[Games We Play|play games at the geohash]] or at a nearby safe location. Some of them will even earn you ribbons.
 
Geohashers are enouraged to [[Games We Play|play games at the geohash]] or at a nearby safe location. Some of them will even earn you ribbons.
 
*[[Buccaneer Geohash]] -- Geohash in pirate attire, hire some crew, and sail the seven seas!
 
*[[Buccaneer Geohash]] -- Geohash in pirate attire, hire some crew, and sail the seven seas!
*[[Star photographer achievement]] -- Submit a photograph to the [[2012 calendar|current calendar selection contest]].
 
 
*[[Circus Geohash]] -- Display any kind of circus skill at a geohash
 
*[[Circus Geohash]] -- Display any kind of circus skill at a geohash
*[[Formal attire achievement]] -- Going to your Geohash in formal attire!
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*[[Formal attire achievement]] -- Going to your Geohash in formal attire
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*[[Geobrush achievement]] -- Commemorate your expedition in a piece of art
 
*[[Geoflashing]] -- AKA birthday suit geohash.
 
*[[Geoflashing]] -- AKA birthday suit geohash.
*[[GeoSquishy#Achievements|GeoSquishy]] -- Various geoSquishy related achievements
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*[[GeoSquishy]] -- Various geoSquishy related achievements
 
*[[Geotrash Geohash]] -- [[Geotrashing|Respect the Geohash point]] and pick up litter
 
*[[Geotrash Geohash]] -- [[Geotrashing|Respect the Geohash point]] and pick up litter
 
*[[Fly a kite achievement]] -- Fly a kite at a geohash.
 
*[[Fly a kite achievement]] -- Fly a kite at a geohash.
 
*[[Hashcard achievement]] -- Send a postcard of the geohash to a geohasher, while geohashing
 
*[[Hashcard achievement]] -- Send a postcard of the geohash to a geohasher, while geohashing
 
*[[Media Attention Geohash]] -- Receive media coverage of your geohashing expedition
 
*[[Media Attention Geohash]] -- Receive media coverage of your geohashing expedition
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*[[Musical achievement]] -- Playing an instrument at the geohash
 
*[[No Batteries Geohash]] -- Reach coordinates using compass and/or sextant.
 
*[[No Batteries Geohash]] -- Reach coordinates using compass and/or sextant.
 
*[[OpenStreetMap Achievement]] -- Contributing a feature to OpenStreetMap encountered near the hash
 
*[[OpenStreetMap Achievement]] -- Contributing a feature to OpenStreetMap encountered near the hash
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*[[Pie Geohash]] -- Share home-baked pie at the geohash
 
*[[Pie Geohash]] -- Share home-baked pie at the geohash
 
*[[Sex Geohash]] -- Get laid at the geohash
 
*[[Sex Geohash]] -- Get laid at the geohash
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*[[Star photographer achievement]] -- Submit a photograph to the [[2012 calendar|current calendar selection contest]].
 
*[[Snowman Geohash]] -- Build a Snowman at the geohash
 
*[[Snowman Geohash]] -- Build a Snowman at the geohash
 
*[[Twister Geohash]] -- Playing twister or encountering a tornado or both
 
*[[Twister Geohash]] -- Playing twister or encountering a tornado or both
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*[[No Batteries Geohash]] -- Reach coordinates using compass and/or sextant
 
*[[No Batteries Geohash]] -- Reach coordinates using compass and/or sextant
 
*[[Raptor geohash|Velociraptor Geohash]] -- Reaching a geohash despite raptor attack
 
*[[Raptor geohash|Velociraptor Geohash]] -- Reaching a geohash despite raptor attack
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*[[XKCD-100]] -- travel 100+ miles to make an XKCD meetup (Saturday 4pm geohash)
  
 
=== Multiple Geohash Challenges ===
 
=== Multiple Geohash Challenges ===
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*[[Reverse regional achievement]] -- Visit hashpoints in all regions of a graticule.
 
*[[Reverse regional achievement]] -- Visit hashpoints in all regions of a graticule.
 
*[[Time-Traveller Geohash]] -- Visit two geohashes on the same day ''at the same local time''
 
*[[Time-Traveller Geohash]] -- Visit two geohashes on the same day ''at the same local time''
*[[XKCD-100]] -- travel 100+ miles to make an XKCD meetup (Saturday 4pm geohash)
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*[[Two to the N achievement]] -- Reach the next level, for example when you reach your 2<sup>4 th</sup> geohash ( = 16 ).
 
*[[xkcd centurion achievement]] -- Make 100 XKCD meetups (Saturday 4pm geohashes)
 
*[[xkcd centurion achievement]] -- Make 100 XKCD meetups (Saturday 4pm geohashes)
  
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*[[Drag-along achievement]] -- This can be achieved by introducing a friend to geohashing.
 
*[[Drag-along achievement]] -- This can be achieved by introducing a friend to geohashing.
 
*[[Hashcat achievement]] -- Patting a cat you encountered during the expedition
 
*[[Hashcat achievement]] -- Patting a cat you encountered during the expedition
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*[[Handshake achievement]] -- Meet up with several other geohashers on your attempts (succesful or not) to go geohashing.
 
*[[Meet-up achievement]] -- Meet at least one complete stranger at the geohash
 
*[[Meet-up achievement]] -- Meet at least one complete stranger at the geohash
 
*[[Migration Geohash]] -- Meet up with people from at least 5 different graticules at the geohash
 
*[[Migration Geohash]] -- Meet up with people from at least 5 different graticules at the geohash
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*[[Birthday Geohash]] -- Reach the daily coordinates on your own actual birthday.
 
*[[Birthday Geohash]] -- Reach the daily coordinates on your own actual birthday.
 
*[[Hashiversary achievement]] -- Go on a geohashing expedition on the anniversary of your first expedition.
 
*[[Hashiversary achievement]] -- Go on a geohashing expedition on the anniversary of your first expedition.
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*[[Towel Day achievement]] -- Carry a towel to the hashpoint for Douglas Adams on May 25th!
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=== Less than Annual Events ===
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* [[Leap geohash achievement]] -- Reach a geohash on a Leap Day! (or in a leap second)
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* [[Dark Ages achievement]] -- Attempt a geohash during the [[Dark Ages]]! (let's hope that it is far less than annual)
  
 
=== Commemorative Dates (Retro expeditions) ===
 
=== Commemorative Dates (Retro expeditions) ===
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=== Geographic ===
 
=== Geographic ===
  
*[[High geohash achievement]] (record is currently 3,923 m = 12,871')
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*[[High geohash achievement]]  
*[[Low Geohash]] (record is currently -6 m = -19.7')
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*[[Low Geohash]]
*[[East geohash achievement]] (record is currently 175.9561395°E)
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*[[East geohash achievement]]  
*[[North geohash achievement]] (record is currently 68.5291679 °N)
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*[[North geohash achievement]]
*[[West geohash achievement]] (record is currently 149.9117°W)
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*[[West geohash achievement]]
*[[South geohash achievement]] (record is currently 53.1225352°S)
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*[[South geohash achievement]]
*[[Hot geohash achievement]] (record is currently 51°C = 124°F)
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*[[Hot geohash achievement]]
*[[Cold geohash achievement]] (record is currently -28.0 °C = -18.4 °F)
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*[[Cold geohash achievement]]  
 
*[[Virgin Graticule]] -- Be the first to visit a hashpoint in a particular graticule.
 
*[[Virgin Graticule]] -- Be the first to visit a hashpoint in a particular graticule.
  
 
=== Geohashers ===
 
=== Geohashers ===
  
*[[Oldest Geohash|Oldest Geohasher]] -- You're never too old to geohash (record is currently 84 years young)
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*[[Oldest Geohash|Oldest Geohasher]] -- You're never too old to geohash (record is currently 87 years young)
 
*[[Youngest Geohash|Youngest Geohasher]] -- Giving birth at the geohash ensures a ribbon for your child (record is currently 5 days old)
 
*[[Youngest Geohash|Youngest Geohasher]] -- Giving birth at the geohash ensures a ribbon for your child (record is currently 5 days old)
  
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**[[There Might be Alligators!]] -- The hash point lies in an unexpected marsh, bog, swamp or sewer which you don't dare to cross.
 
**[[There Might be Alligators!]] -- The hash point lies in an unexpected marsh, bog, swamp or sewer which you don't dare to cross.
 
**[[Cliffs of Despair]] -- Terrain too steep to continue
 
**[[Cliffs of Despair]] -- Terrain too steep to continue
*[[Nanny consolation prize]] -- You have to break off a quest to stay with a quitter.
 
 
*[[No Trespassing Geohash]] -- Forced to turn back because of signs forbidding access
 
*[[No Trespassing Geohash]] -- Forced to turn back because of signs forbidding access
 
**[[Posted achievement]] -- suffering through one hundred No Trespassing geohashes
 
**[[Posted achievement]] -- suffering through one hundred No Trespassing geohashes
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This category is to allow geohashers to commemorate things they have done or seen with colourful ribbons even when the thing they have done is not an achievement, is not provable and/or couldn't be done in enough graticules to make sense as an achievement. Award them to yourself. Award them to others. Have fun.  
 
This category is to allow geohashers to commemorate things they have done or seen with colourful ribbons even when the thing they have done is not an achievement, is not provable and/or couldn't be done in enough graticules to make sense as an achievement. Award them to yourself. Award them to others. Have fun.  
*[[Easy Geohash]] -- The geohash was so easy to reach you couldn't have ''not'' reached it in the course of your day.
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*[[Easy Geohash]] -- The geohash was so easy to reach you would have had to go out of your way to ''not'' reach it.
 
*[[Radio Yerevan]] -- Should you have won an achievement? Yes, but there was a technicality.
 
*[[Radio Yerevan]] -- Should you have won an achievement? Yes, but there was a technicality.
 
*[[Gratuitous Ribbon]] -- Customize this ribbon for all your "do we get a ribbon for this?" needs.
 
*[[Gratuitous Ribbon]] -- Customize this ribbon for all your "do we get a ribbon for this?" needs.
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*[[:Template:Combo|Combo]] -- Combine multiple achievements into one, while maintaining all the original categories.
  
If you see a ribbon on someone's page but there is no corresponding achievement listed on this page, that ribbon is probably a gratuitous ribbon.
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If you see a ribbon on someone's page but there is no corresponding achievement listed on this page, that ribbon is probably a gratuitous ribbon or a combo.
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== Catch all ==
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If you are in the mood for bad puns and your expedition is cool, try this one.
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[[File:2016-04-22 52 1 Sourcerer Trophy.jpg]]
  
 
== Proof ==
 
== Proof ==
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== Ribbons ==
 
== Ribbons ==
 
Most achievements include ribbons you can display on your user or expedition page. Just copy the template linked in the achievement to the page where you want to see it, and fill in the details.
 
Most achievements include ribbons you can display on your user or expedition page. Just copy the template linked in the achievement to the page where you want to see it, and fill in the details.
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If you gain multiple achievements in one expeditions, you can fuse them into a single ribbon using the [[:Template:Combo|Combo template]], to add a silly flavor to your reports and user pages.
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[[Category:Achievements]]
 
[[Category:Achievements]]
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[[Category:Geohashing guide]]

Revision as of 17:51, 31 March 2020

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 unavoidable 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.

Be sure to click through and read the page describing an achievement before you claim it. Many of the requirements are not obvious from the names and/or short descriptions.

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: Land, Water or Air. 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. There are also a few special cases here, stretching the meaning of 'basic.'

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

Geohashers are enouraged to play games at the geohash or at a nearby safe location. Some of them will even earn you ribbons.

Challenge Achievements

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

Annual Events

Geohashing expeditions on particular dates may earn you a ribbon.

Less than Annual Events

Commemorative Dates (Retro expeditions)

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.

"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. 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

  • Oldest Geohasher -- You're never too old to geohash (record is currently 87 years young)
  • Youngest Geohasher -- Giving birth at the geohash ensures a ribbon for your child (record is currently 5 days old)

"My Graticule is Better than yours" Awards

Ultimate 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.

"There Should Be a Ribbon for This" Category

This category is to allow geohashers to commemorate things they have done or seen with colourful ribbons even when the thing they have done is not an achievement, is not provable and/or couldn't be done in enough graticules to make sense as an achievement. Award them to yourself. Award them to others. Have fun.

  • Easy Geohash -- The geohash was so easy to reach you would have had to go out of your way to not reach it.
  • Radio Yerevan -- Should you have won an achievement? Yes, but there was a technicality.
  • Gratuitous Ribbon -- Customize this ribbon for all your "do we get a ribbon for this?" needs.
  • Combo -- Combine multiple achievements into one, while maintaining all the original categories.

If you see a ribbon on someone's page but there is no corresponding achievement listed on this page, that ribbon is probably a gratuitous ribbon or a combo.

Catch all

If you are in the mood for bad puns and your expedition is cool, try this one.

2016-04-22 52 1 Sourcerer Trophy.jpg

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.

A tracklog may also be submitted as evidence of your journey.

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

Ribbons

Most achievements include ribbons you can display on your user or expedition page. Just copy the template linked in the achievement to the page where you want to see it, and fill in the details.

If you gain multiple achievements in one expeditions, you can fuse them into a single ribbon using the Combo template, to add a silly flavor to your reports and user pages.