Oslo, Norway

Nesbyen	Gjøvik	Hamar
Skien	Oslo	Sarpsborg
Kragerø	Stavern	Uddevalla, Sweden
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About

Today's location

The Oslo graticule is at latitude 59, longitude 10. High probability of geohash coordinates being in water or the middle of nowhere far away from any road.

Land usage, as reported by kartverk databases, and the Land usage script:

Category   SK      Land Usage  Category
Forest     51.36%  47.36%      Forest
Swamp       0.05% 
Sea        25.93%  37.62%      Water
Lakes       1.97%
Rivers      0.11%
Open       12.50%  9.91%       Fields/Wilderness
Urban       8.09%  2.42%       Settlements
                   1.19%       Near Roads
                   1.19%       Near Highways
                   0.24%       Natural reserves/Parks
                   0.08%       Industrial/Restricted

Since it covers a significant amount of the population in Norway, you'd think we might get something more going.

Local Geohashers

eiggen, lives close to the Oslo sentralstasjon

Enno, who is living in Oslo and does not have a car but likes to walk and play football. On TV. Every Wednesday.

hbrx, living and working in Oslo, caching and hashing all over.

relet, lives in Hønefoss, not far from the northern graticule border.

W, lives near Fornebu.

Snoken, lives in Oslo.

Past Geohashes

• 2010-08-07 was reached

• 2008-06-21 almost reached by Chimera

• 2008-06-25 will be attempted reached by FluffyB

• 2008-06-26 was reached by hbrx and Chimera

• 2008-07-07 was reached by Chimera

• 2008-07-15 was reached by Chimera and Enno

• 2008-08-01 was reached by Chimera and hbrx, whats the odds, meeting another geohasher at the site without agreement?

• 2008-08-22 was reached by Chimera, hbrx and lyx independently and at different times of the day.

• 2008-09-04: lyx and relet met Enno. Chimera showed up too, but missed everyone else. Even hbrx hashed by in the evening.

• 2008-09-13 was attempted by Chimera.

• 2008-10-02 was reached by lyx at (the wrong) midnight.

• 2008-10-13 was reached by lyx at sunset, and by hbrx half an hour earlier.

• 2008-11-26 was attempted by hbrx.

• 2009-08-24 was reached by hbrx

• 2010-04-25 was reached by relet

Achievements

hbrx earned the Like a Virgin Geohash Achievement by reactivating the inactive Oslo graticule at (59, 10) geohash on 2009-08-24.