User:Hermann

36 / m / 53,9

xkcd-reader from germany, living in west Hamburg. In times of global warming, I dislike wasting fuel on Geohashing, so I try to get to hashes in range by bike. For your information, as of July 2008, standard fuel (91 ROZ) is 1.55 EUR per Litre ^= 2.53 AUD per Litre ^= 2.45 USD per Litre ^= 9.27 USD per US-Gallon in Germany.

You can speak to me in the #geohashing IRC channel or at my Teamspeak. I can have a look at your geohashing oriented PHP, Java, C++, Python, Pascal or Bash code (and there is a small possibility that I can improve it).

Contributions

I run the Google Maps service for generating overviews containing geohashing locations.
I adapted Douglas Adams' "Nad": In geohashing, you call it Geonad.
I drew the Bicycle Geohash Award ribbon image myself and converted Randall's Geohashing logo into a vector format image. It is used on the posters I hold being at the hashes and the promotional poster I left in Hamburg.
This wxPython powered App alerts me whenever todays geohash is close whilst this one fires at pixels using The Algorithm.
I use Commonist to upload my photos to the wiki. Use "geohashing _ http://wiki.xkcd.com/wgh/api.php" for your "wikis.txt" config file. It's great, much less clicking and copypasta.

Expeditions

Range

Travelling by bike only, my range is:

9.60707 < longitude < 10
53.54037 < latitude < 53.67906

Statistics

My list of expeditions has it's own page.

Achievements

• I am the first geohasher in my graticule
• I am the first successful geohasher in Germany (edit this page if I'm wrong)
• I am a Bicycle Geohasher
• 2008-07-17 53 9 was very close to become a Déjà Vu Geohash

This user earned the Drowned Rat Geohash Achievement by reaching the (53, 9) geohash on 2008-06-03 despite being thoroughly wet from a thunderstorm.

This user earned the There might be alligators! consolation prize by being prevented from reaching the (53, 9) geohash on 2008-06-24 by an impassable and unforeseen swamp (and probably lurking alligators).

This user earned the Bicycle geohash achievement by cycling to the (53, 9) geohash on 2008-05-26.

This user earned the Land geohash achievement by reaching the (53, 9) geohash on 2008-05-26.

This user earned the No Batteries Geohash Achievement by reaching the (53, 9) geohash on 2008-08-06.

This user earned the Drag-along achievement by dragging Matthias to the (53, 9) geohash on 2008-12-15.

This user earned the Frozen Geohash Achievement

by reaching the (53, 9) geohash on 2009-01-09 while the temperature was -4.5°C.

This user earned the Sunrise Geohash Achievement by reaching the (53, 9) geohash on 2009-01-09 to smile at the first rays of sun to cross the horizon.

This user earned the Picnic achievement by reaching the (53, 9) geohash on 2009-02-03.

This user earned the Police Geohash Achievement by meeting an officer while attempting the (53, 9) geohash on 2009-02-03.

This user earned the Midnight Geohash achievement by reaching the (53, 9) geohash on 2009-02-03 in the middle of the night.

This user earned the Pub Geohash Achievement by visiting a pub visible from the (53, 9) geohash on 2009-03-08.

This user earned the Public transport geohash achievement by reaching the (53, 9) geohash on 2009-03-08 via U3.

This user earned the No trespassing consolation prize by almost reaching the (53, 9) geohash on 2009-04-26.

This user earned the Puppet Master Geohash achievement by manipulating a fellow student to reach the (53, 9) geohash on 2011-01-28.

Hermann earned the Meet-up achievement by meeting mtu at the (53, 9) geohash on 2011-01-28.