User:Mtu

36 / m / 53,10

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Successful expeditions (total: 2)

• 2010-11-19 53 9
• 2010-11-14 54 11

Achievements

For single achievements, only the first times ares listed, for personal records and running achievements, only the achievements with the highest numbers are listed. For the whole shebang, check the complete list!

Botched expeditions (total: 5)

Expeditions affected by mtu's Grand GPS Clustermug of 2010:

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2010-09-17 53 9 -- 2010-10-16 53 9 -- 2010-10-17 53 9 -- 2010-11-01 53 10 -- 2010-11-10 54 10

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For his first five geohashes, mtu had the wrong map datum set on his GPS device—namely the Potsdam datum instead of the globally accepted standard, WGS 84—causing him to not visit the actual, canonical hashpoints, but places about 200 m away in SSW-erly direction.

In all cases, the actual hashpoints would have been easily accessible, but were missed by 20–200 m solely due to mtu's ineptitude.

In commemoration of this epic fail,

mtu earned the False Start Consolation Prize by finding that all of his first 5 geohashes are invalid because the map datum on his GPS was wrongly set to the Potsdam datum instead of the WGS 84 global standard, causing the loss of 13 achievements and approximately 31 hours of lifetime, up to and including the (54, 10) geohash on 2010-11-10.

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As a consequence, all achievements formerly claimed for those hashes are null and void (except Drag-along achievements). Instead, for all expeditions,

mtu earned the Blinded by Science Consolation Prize by failing to reach the (53, 9) geohash on 2010-09-17 because he had set the wrong map datum on his GPS.

Hall of Fail

Is it true that mtu and seamus_d earned the land geohash achievement? In principle, yes. But mtu's GPS had a wrong map datum set, missing the hash by about 200 m (2010-09-17 53 9).

Is it true that mtu and seamus_d earned the Public transport geohash achievement by taking MEr 36654 and RB 14747? In principle, yes. But mtu's GPS had a wrong map datum set, missing the hash by about 200 m (2010-09-17 53 9).

mtu earned the Drag-along achievement by dragging seamus_d and Johannes to the (53, 9) geohash on 2010-09-17.

mtu earned the Bicycle geohash achievement by cycling to the (53, 9) geohash on 2010-10-17.

mtu earned the Consecutive geohash achievement by reaching 2 consecutive hash points starting on 2010-10-16.

mtu achieved level 2 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement by visiting coordinates in Hamburg, Germany (East) and 2 of the surrounding graticules.