User:Q-Owl
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About Me
I like geocaching since 2011, discovered geohashing 2013-09-25 and went to the first hash at 2013-09-27.
Home graticule: Mannheim, Germany (see today's point on the peeron map).
My Homepage: www.KlickTipps.de with a special geohashing page: www.KlickTipps.de/geohashing.php
Age: I feel quite young, but it seems, that I am one of the ten oldest known active geohashers - see Geohashers_by_age.
Expeditions
Plan
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reached
45. 
2016-01-07 49 8: A hashpoint in Bensheim
44. 2016-01-07 49 8: On a meadow near Einhausen
43. 2016-01-01 49 8: In a wood near Seeheim
42. 2015-12-13 49 8: In a field between between Monsheim and Mölsheim
41. 2015-11-29 49 8: In a field between Alzey and Gau-Bickelheim
40. 1955-11-28 49 8: Retro origin hashpoint reached 2015-11-18 in an an orchard near Mainz
39. 2015-11-18 49 8: next to an orchard near Mainz-Finthen
38. 2015-11-07 49 8: In a field near Erfelden and Leeheim (Saturday)
37. 2015-10-30 49 8: In a field between Eich and the Rhine River
36. 2015-10-25 49 8: Near Schwanheim (a part of Bensheim)
35. 2015-10-24 49 8: Near the Kalmit mountain in the Palatinate Forest (Sa.)
34. 2015-10-18 49 8: In Weiher east of Mörlenbach in the Odenwald
33. 2015-09-18 49 8: Near Neunkirchen in the Odenwald
32. 2015-07-21 54 11: In Denmark on the island Lolland
31. 2015-05-20 49 8: Near Bensheim at the Hemsberg hill
30. 2015-05-09 49 8: In the forest very close to Darmstadt
29. 2015-05-08 49 8: Near Leutershausen on the western rim of the Odenwald (Sa.)
28. 2015-03-14 49 8: Near Wembach-Hahn in the Odenwald (Sa.)
27. 2015-03-13 49 8: In the middle of the Maudacher Bruch near Ludwigshafen
26. 2015-03-10 49 8: Between Hambach and Schannenbach in the Odenwald
25. 2015-02-01 49 8: In a little industrial estate in Goddelau
24. 2015-01-28 49 8: Near Wissembourg in the 0.1 % French part of this graticule
23. 2015-01-23 49 8: Between Eich and Hamm
22. 2015-01-22 49 8: Between Schifferstadt and Waldsee
21. 2015-01-21 49 8: West of Bickenbach near lake Erlensee
20. 2015-01-20 49 8: In the west of Alsbach
19. 2015-01-18 49 9: Near Neuenstadt am Kocher
18. 2015-01-12 49 9: In the Odenwald south of Bad König
17. 2014-12-25 49 8: Near Malsch on a little meadow between apple trees
16. 2014-11-28 49 8: Between Darmstadt and DA-Eberstadt
15. 2014-11-26 49 8: In Bensheim-Auerbach near a voltage transformation substation and about 200 m west of ALDI.
14. 2014-11-15 50 8: In a forest near Dietzenbach (Sa.)
13. 2014-11-08 49 8: In the Odenwald east of Heppenheim, near Mittershausen (Sa.)
12. 2014-10-05 48 7: In a little wood between Bouxwiller and Ingwiller (Alsace, France)
11. 2014-09-27 49 8: In the Odenwald near Fränkisch-Crumbach (Sa.)
10. 2014-09-08 49 7: In the Palatinate Forest near the Luitpold Tower
9. 2014-07-17 49 8: On a forest aisle half way between Lorsch and Neuschloss
8. 2014-06-27 49 8: In front of the Viernheim Bowling Center
7. 2014-05-12 49 8: In a wood near Bensheim-Hochstädten
6. 2014-04-20 49 8: On a dyke with bicycle path near Biebesheim
5. 2014-03-29 49 8: On a vineyard near Nierstein not far from the Rhine (Sa.)
4. 2013-12-11 49 8: In the southern part of Darmstadt: Rüthleinweg/Edith-Stein-Weg
3. 2013-11-14 49 8: A meadow with apple trees near Einhausen
2. 2013-10-25 49 8: Not to far from home and near a geocache which I could not log in april
1. 2013-09-27 49 8: Three days after creating my account at XKCD I had the chance to visit my first geohash near Fehlheim
not reached
2016-01-16 49 8: 
In the northern part Mannheim City on the roof of a company.- 2015-11-15 49 8: Near the "Schuldorf Bergstraße" in the caretakers garden.
- 2015-03-21 49 8: Near the circle of caches east of Wald-Michelbach in the Odenwald
not attempted
- 2014-10-16 49 8: In the 0.1 % French part of this graticule - but too ill to start an expedition :-((
Plans and ideas
✔ Cross the border to: France (specially to the little French triangle in 49,8)
- Cross the border to: Switzerland, Austria and other countries - ✔ Denmark
- Visit all graticules next to our own
✔ Get some different achievements
- Get more different achievements
- Rise a little bit in the list of the most active users
✔ Visit my birthday hash 1955-11-28 49 8
Visited Graticules
Green shows success and red indicates attempted but failed graticules. The numbers schow successful/all Expeditions
| 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | |
| 50 | ./. | ./. | 1/1 | ./. | ./. | ./. | ./. | ./. |
| 49 | ./. | 1/1 | 38/42 | 2/2 | ./. | ./. | ./. | ./. |
| 48 | ./. | 1/1 | ./. | ./. | ./. | ./. | ./. | ./. |
| 47 | ./. | ./. | ./. | ./. | ./. | ./. | ./. | ./. |
Other graticule(s): 54 11 in Denmark
You may see my hashes and the visited graticules on the map xkcd.nathanwoodruff.com/GooMapXKCDQ-Owl.htm.
Countries
- Germany
- France
- Denmark
Achievements
(first occurrence, newest first)
Transportation
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2015-01-23, 2014-03-29, 2015-10-30 | |||
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Geographic
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Alsace, Rhineland-Palatinate, Baden-Württemberg, Hesse | ||||||||||
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Interaction Achievements
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2014-09-27 | ||
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2014-09-08 | ||
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2015-01-22, 2014-11-28, 2014-04-20, 2015-05-09 | ||
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Timing Achievements
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Other Achievements
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 Q-Owl earned the Frozen Geohash Achievement
by reaching the (49, 9) geohash on 2015-01-18 while the temperature was -1 °C.
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 Q-Owl earned the Two to the N achievement
by reaching 25 hashpoints on 2015-07-21 54 11 and is promoted to Level 5 (Coordinates reached).
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Q-Owl earned the Two to the N achievement
by reaching 20 hashpoints on 2013-09-27 49 8 and is promoted to Level 0 (Coordinates reached).
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HowTo in this Wiki
Information I saearched for and learned:
List of uploaded Files
http://wiki.xkcd.com/wgh/index.php?title=Special%3AListFiles&limit=50&ilsearch=&user=Q-Owl
Edit an existing gallery of the day
http://wiki.xkcd.com/wgh/index.php?title=Template:Expedition_Images2/2015-MM-DD&action=edit
HowTo: http://wiki.xkcd.com/geohashing/Template:Expedition_Images2/How-to
Main page gallery: Main_Page In the middle of the page is the gallery for this month.
Delete a photo
Use the word delete in double braces {{...}}.
You can edit photos; that's where the caption is stored.
(learned at User_talk:Joannac#Delete_Photos_and_Pages)
Delete a page
You can mark pages with the word delete in double braces anywhere; first line of text is possibly easiest.
Calculating Coordinates
At 2015-03-10 49 8 you can see, how GeorgDerReisende performs it.
You can get the opening price for the Dow Jones Industrial Average from http://www.google.com/finance/historical?q=indexdjx:.dji. But geohashers in Europe use the price of the previous day (according to the "east of -30° rule")!
More: The Geohashing Algorithm.
Using the Parser
ParserFunctions, eg. #if or #time
Magic_words, eg. current date or pagename
PHP
I like programming PHP. If you need a nice little PHP function to link from your own homepage to the geohashes of a certain day, here it is:
function geohashing_textlink( $my_date = -1 , $cl = "" ){
/* a text link to a special day
Parameters: $my_date (optional): 2 the day after tomorrow
1 tomorrow
0 today
-1 yesterday
-2 the day before yesterday
-3 and so on ...
$cl (optional): CSS Class for the link */
$complete_date
= mktime(0, 0, 0, date("m"), date("d") + $my_date, date("Y"));
//check inputs
if ( $my_date > 3 ){ $my_date = 0; }
$cl = trim( $cl );
//build link
$text = date("j.n.Y" , $complete_date );
$outp = "<a href=\"http://wiki.xkcd.com/geohashing/";
$outp .= date("Y-n-j" , $complete_date ) . "\"";
$outp .= " target=\"_blank\"" ;
if ( $klasse != "" ){ $outp .= " class=\"" . $cl . "\""; }
$outp .= " >" . $text . "</a>" ;
return( $outp );
}
Other version with date as input:
function geohashing_textlink2( $my_year , $my_month , $my_day , $cl = "" ){
/* a text link to a special day
Parameters: Year, Month and Day
$cl (optional): CSS Class for the link */
$complete_date
= mktime(0, 0, 0, $my_month, $my_day, $my_year);
//... continue as the function above
How to calculate the md5 hash of a string is explained at php.net.
- Geohashers
- Geohashers in their 60s
- Geohashers in 49,8
- Bicycle geohash achievement
- Gratuitous ribbon achievement
- Land geohash achievement
- Border geohash achievement
- Reverse regional achievement
- Minesweeper geohash achievement
- Cliffs of despair consolation prize
- No trespassing consolation prize
- Meet-up achievement
- Drag-along achievement
- Xkcd centurion achievement
- Consecutive geohash achievement
- Birthday geohash achievement
- Hashiversary achievement
- Origin geohash achievement
- Déjà vu geohash achievement
- Velociraptor geohash achievement
- Frozen geohash achievement
- Two to the N achievement
- Hash collision achievement
- Circus geohash achievement
