User:DanQ

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Dan Q

Based near Oxford; in the Swindon, UK graticule.

Expeditions

  • Wednesday 19 February 2014 - successful expedition by bike (57.75 mile round trip) to a the geohash in the nearby London West graticule, to commemorate the second anniversary of his father's death.
  • Monday 21 April 2014 - successful expedition on foot (1.2 mile round trip, including finding some nearby geohashes) to a hashpoint just 300 metres from his house, along with his partner Ruth and her baby Annabel.
  • Saturday 12 July 2014 - successful expedition by car and foot to a geohash that was broadly-speaking sort-of between his house and an interview he'd just been to
  • Saturday 4 August 2018 - successful expedition by bike at midnight to a hashpoint about 2 miles from his house
  • Tuesday 7 August 2018 - successful 6.5km expedition by bike (and foot at the very end) to a field South of Oxford after his afternoon's work meeting got cancelled
  • Wednesday 22 August 2018 - successful expedition to East Adderbury to a hashpoint in a field of cows
  • Thursday 23 August 2018 - cancelled expedition after the hashpoint location was revealed to be entirely in the wrong direction for my intended day's travel
  • Thursday 23 August 2018 - successful expedition to replace the cancelled one; this time a hashpoint South one graticule, deep in a forest

Achievements

In reverse order of aquisition (i.e. most-recent first):


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DanQ achieved level 3 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement
by visiting coordinates in Swindon, United Kingdom and 3 of the surrounding graticules.
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DanQ earned the Consecutive geohash achievement
by reaching hash points on 2 consecutive days starting on 2018-08-22.
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This user earned the Last man standing achievement
by being the the only hasher world-wide to go on a geohashing expedition on 2018-08-22.
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This user earned the Midnight Geohash achievement
by reaching the (51, -1) geohash on 2018-08-04 in the middle of the night.
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This user earned the Drag-along achievement
by dragging Ruth (and carrying baby Annabel) to the (51, -1) geohash on 2014-04-21.
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This user earned the Walk geohash Achievement
by reaching the (51, -1) geohash on 2014-04-21 on foot.
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This user earned the Land geohash achievement
by reaching the (51, -0) geohash on 2014-02-19.
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This user earned the Bicycle geohash achievement
by cycling 93km to and from the (51, -0) geohash on 2014-02-19.

Elsewhere

Find me online at:

Contact me via:

  • dan@danq.me - good old-fashioned email
  • Contact form - sends me an email; sometimes these go to spam and may take a few days to respond to; sorry