Talk:Cubicle geohash achievement

All the math here assumes a 25,000 sq. ft workplace. Anyone have a good drawing?--Ahecht 14:33, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Request for clarification: Workplace for a grad student means... actual building, entire campus, or what?

Whatever you can blag. 90.198.176.206 16:15, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

Shouldn't socially engineering yourself a job at the location on the same day count for something? :P

Definitely! Falls under the same sort of skill set as manipulating the stock market to get the precise point you so desire - full marks for creativity. :)
- If you're a private contractor, and you can finagle yourself a job at the site of that day's location, you should definitely get it. --Jevanyn 15:17, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Closest so far?

The 12 June 2008 location for Newark, New Jersey is three miles south of my office, on US 206. I think that this is the closest anyone has gotten for this achievement to date. Do I get an honorable mention? Can we put it to a vote? --Jevanyn 15:17, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

That beats out the 4.5 miles (as the crow flies) that the San Jose, California location of 1 June 2008 was from my workplace. Though really, I'd just sort of assumed that with a multi-mile radius taken from any sundry urban location, you'd have such a wide tract that someone would surely work somewhere within it. I kind of like the "1km / 20 minutes walk" upper bound on the Honorable Mention sections myself. Though I don't see the harm in appending a "Closest To Honorability" entry until we have some "real" winners or what have you. :) --Youhas 19:46, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

My office has wings, so I have opportunity to maneuver it over geohashes. That would be cheating, though. I intend to take this achievement if the hash falls within the boundaries of an airport that I land at during the day. Robyn 04:09, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

Today might be your lucky day :-D. -- Jevanyn 13:48, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Today's location is 308m from my desk. I guess that makes me closest? -- Moose Hole 15:33, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

I think I've got ya'll beat, I'm not sure if accidental presence counts, but I worked in this building on the day of the hash. Distance estimate is 150 feet from hash to cube. I probably parked within 20 feet of the hash. Smartaleq 21:00, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

For students

Question: What about for students? At our school? -- 146.115.115.35

IMO, if you have a homeroom (i.e., a morning gathering room, not necessarily where a lesson is delivered), it has to be in your homeroom. If not, it can be in any classroom you occupy that day. Honorable mention if it's on your school grounds / campus? -- Jevanyn 18:51, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Within Three Miles!

The main article asks for reports of work locations within three miles of a geohash. I'm about 1.5 miles from today's coordinates for the West London graticule -- as are a lot of other people, probably, as it's just east of Regent's Park. My desk is at +51.514666, -0.133015. Drplokta 16:02, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

Yesterday's hash for the Oslo graticule was about 1.8 km walking distance from my departement's university building, tells me google. That's almost honorable, isn't it?
--Lyx 16:27, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

I guess you all (and Virgletati) qualify for the Honourable Honourable Mention. (Almost Honourable Mention sounds good, too). -- Relet 18:54, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

The hash for the Albuquerque graticule was about 2.5 miles from my office directly, 2.9 miles via Google maps driving directions. It did fall within Kirtland AFB, so at least I received the Restricted_Area_Geohash achievement.
--Bishop_Wash 04:28, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

The hash for the Newark graticule was 2.3 miles from my main base directly, about 2.9-3.0 miles walking because of Rt-10. I did drive right past the site, but it's frowned upon (read my butt would get fired) to stop with a patient on board or take pictures with a patient on board..... --Techdarko 17:50, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

Five miles away

[1] shows the point about five miles south-east of my work place for the summer, the Blue Note Caribou mine (it's the whiteish blotch above the dark looking lake on hybrid mode). Pretty close...

Working in multiple locations

Although I am based at a central Cambridge office, my job also involves me working at a number of satellite offices, and also going to people's houses in the various villages within about 25km of Cambridge. I therefore have a few questions about the Cubicle Geohash:

If, as has happened, a geohash pops up in a particular village, and I know I have been to an office in that village for work before (and might also have to go there at some future point), do I count the Cubicle Geohash from that location, or would I have to count it from the location(s) where I happen to be working the particular day of the geohash?
If the former (i.e. I count it from anywhere I have previously worked), is the achievement also retrospective? That is, if I go to a geohash somewhere, and a few days later find myself visiting the same spot for work, does that 'upgrade' my Cubicle Geohash?
If the latter (i.e. I count it from where I'm working that day), what happens if it's a Sunday or it's my day off?

-- Benjw 16:11, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

Can you be at more than one office at a time? -- relet 16:22, 3 April 2009 (UTC)