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The Adventure Starts Here
Geohashing is a game of spontaneous adventure generation played around the world since 2008. You will explore random locations, meet fellow geohashers, brave the elements, unlock achievements, and then come back here to document your expedition.
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| “ | After walking over a kilometer it was time to head into the forest, it was completely dark and I didn't see much of it. It seems like a crazy decision to try to walk the last 700 meters to the hash but it's also a kinda crazy decision to head out half an hour after midnight to try to reach a coordinate in the middle of a forest and then walk by foot for about six hours just to reach "nothing". (...)It was completely wet in the forest, small lakes and swamps had been temporarily created by the melting snow but this time it wouldn't stop me. My shoes got wet after just a few minutes and turned wetter since I had walked in deeper and deeper swamps. (...)I finally reached the geohash and it felt great.
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| find some more great geohashing quotations here. | —Vswe on 2010-11-18 59 17
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How to play?
- Create or log in to an account (returning after a break? all accounts created before 2020-02-02 were deleted; you'll need to sign up again)
- Use a coordinate calculator to give you a pair of GPS coordinates
- Go there (or as close as you can safely/legally get)
- Write about your expedition!
Need more? Keep reading for full instructions, FAQs, history, other people's expeditions...
How does Geohashing work?
Every day, effectively random locations are generated by an algorithm that derives randomness from stock market data. A set of coordinates is generated for every 1°×1° latitude/longitude zone in the world, or graticule. The coordinates might be in a field, a forest, a city, up a mountain, or out at sea! Everyone in a quadrant of the globe gets the same set of coordinates relative to their graticule.
The generated coordinates are used as destinations for adventures, à la Geocaching, or for local meetups. After the fun, please document your expedition: The rest of us would love to read your story, see your photos, and cheer your success (or commiserate with your failure)! Join the other 'spot spotters', be out standing in your field and use this wiki to document the daily coordinates (geohashes) you’ve been to or tried to reach.
The daily coordinates are repeated for each degree all round the planet, but there is also a single globalhash, rare, valued and much harder to reach.
Learn more
Get involved
- Find a geohash using a coordinate calculator
- Find others in your local area
- Join #geohashing chat on slashnet with your own IRC client or using your web browser
- Create your user page and become a part of the community!
news archive • Edit What's new on the wiki?
- The subdivision geohash is an achievement now.
- SIGSTKFLT is doing a slow rollout of Ribbon2. Add a comment if you see any problems.
- It's now possible to upload and embed GPX tracklogs of your expeditions.
- Dan Q is attempting to resurrect the wiki. Don't assume he knows about the problem you've discovered; let him know.
More pages needing discussion • Discussion archive • Edit Now discussing - please join in:
- Future/fixes on the wiki - now we're out of the Dark Ages we can add new features to the wiki: what would improve it?
- A proposal to identify users who are willing to be advocates/mentors for geohashing.
- We are almost always discussing in the Geohashing IRC channel: Join us in #geohashing on irc.slashnet.org
Official xkcd meetups
Official xkcd meetups happen every Saturday afternoon at 4:00 p.m.(*) at that day’s normal geohash coordinates. It is considered a Saturday meetup if you are there at 4:00 p.m. or if you meet people, but you are most likely to encounter other readers of xkcd if you go at the designated time. Bring games!
You're encouraged to geohash on any day of the week that the coordinates are accessible to you, but if you attempt one meetup all week, make a little extra effort to have it be on Saturday. All meetups start at 4:00 p.m. or as designated on the graticule page.
There's even an achievement for making it to 100 Saturday meetups.
*In some areas, 4:00pm is too close to sunset during the winter, so earlier meetups are often more appropriate. See individual graticule pages for local conventions.
Recent and Upcoming Coordinates
The coordinates for the next Saturday meetups, scheduled for 23 January 2021, will be based on the Dow’s opening price published at 09:30 EST (14:30 UTC) on Friday 22 January. See timeanddate.com to convert this time to your local time zone.
- Coordinates: Tue 19 Jan* | Mon 18 Jan | Sun 17 Jan | Sat 16 Jan | Fri 15 Jan | Thu 14 Jan | Wed 13 Jan | Tue 12 Jan
* Only known for regions east of 30W longitude. Coordinates for regions to the west announced 14:30 UTC, 19 January. - View expedition archives for: January 2021 | December 2020 | November 2020 | More...
Gallery of Recent Expeditions
The gallery for each day is added to this page automatically, but pictures are selected to the gallery by us. Any geohasher is welcome to add a picture from that day. Just add your image name in the list at the “add yours” link. If the gallery hasn't been started yet, copy the format from the previous day, or read the how-to. Please also write an account of your expedition, even if only a short one, so that people can click the link on your picture and find out more.
Click here to learn how to add your own expedition pictures.
If your newly added expedition does not show, click here to refresh the cache
Click here to see an automatic list of all recent expeditions, whether pictures were posted or not.
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Recent non-expeditions
This section documents hash expeditions that geohashers wish they could make, but have not been able to for the reasons stated.
2013 - 2014 - 2015 - 2017 - 2020
