Talk:Bicycle geohash achievement

Icons

I also drew an Icon for the Bicycle geohash achievement. Now, we have two. Decide, which one you want to use: -- Hermann 19:03, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

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Splitting

I observe some users adding multiple expeditions with their bikes. In my oppinion, a user earnes the Bicycle Geohashing Awarad once, with his fist successful hashing by bike, and shouldn't be named on this page a second time. We should then make a complete list of all hashings with bike on another page. If noone speaks against this idea, I'll create that biking-page. --Hermann 18:33, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

• I agree that a particular person should appear at most once on the achievement page, but I don't have any problem with someone moving up the list if they go on a longer ride. Brett Daniel 00:13, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
• I now split the list. The complete list with all rides is now available though Bicycle geohashes. --Hermann 20:17, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

Where does the ride start?

A conversation on a recent geohash raised some questions and we thought they should be settled before someone has done the bike ride. For the purpose of the longest ride to a geohash, if ...

• I start riding south from Vancouver, Canada on Monday, and check the coordinates each morning. Everything in Washington and Oregon is in the sea, mountains or private property on my way south, but on Friday morning I see that there will be an on-street geohash in Sacramento, California. I ride there and make the meet. Is my bicycle geohash the 450 km from where I looked up the Saturday geohash, or is it the 1450 km I rode from Vancouver?

• I ride my bike to Kelowna and stay there a week in a motel until an accessible geohash arises. I ride 43 km from the hotel to the geohash and claim it. Is my bicycle geohash 43 km, or 43 km plus the 400 km it took to get to Kelowna.

• I am doing an endurance geohash, biking from one graticule to the next and spending the night in a tent, a nearby motel or with friends, as circumstances allow. I reach the seventh geohash after 875 km of biking. Is that my record for the bicycle geohash, or am I limited to the longest interhash segment?

Assume in each case that there is no doubt that I have made each of these rides for the sole purpose of geohashing. -Robyn 05:36, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

I think the odometer starts as soon as you know where you're going. So if you started on a Friday morning for a Sunday hash you'd get to claim the entire distance because when you set out Friday morning you target destination was the Sunday hash (you could obviously still visit intermediate hashes on the way). But for the endurance hash, you should only claim the distance cycled starting at the previous point because after you reached your destination (the first point) you added a second destination.

I still wouldn't have a problem with someone posting their entire distance for a week-long hashstravaganza, but if an "official" distance had to be figured out, I'd use the above guidelines. Thepiguy 06:14, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

So the upper bound on geocycling distance will ultimately be the speed of the cyclist and not raw tenacity/willingness to cycle for three weeks straight? -Robyn 07:01, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

What if you set out to cycle to Houston, Texas, with the aim of making the hash there on, say, Saturday 23 May (I have no idea how far it is from Vancouver to Houston). You get there on the appointed day, look up the coordinates and make it to the hash. Wouldn't that be a cycle ride with the express purpose of making it to that particular hash, even though you don't know where it is when you start? -- Benjw 18:51, 20 April 2009 (UTC)