User:Sourcerer

About Me

70 / m / 52,1

My name is Neil. Is geohashing the ultimate "Nerd Snipe"?

My user name is a play on words based on computer source-code and is a tribute to controlled folly.

I enjoy computer programming and wrote an implementation of Conway's Game of Life in BASIC in 1972. The virtual creatures were printed on a paper roll by a mechanical teletype. Those were the days. Later in 1976 I taught programming to school kids. We used Algol! We filled in coding forms and submitted them to be punched onto cards for the overnight run. The next day we'd get the error message print-outs or rarely a successful run. More recently I have used PHP, MySQL, Javascript and Delphi.

One of my follies is to go geohashing. A totally pointless but pleasing activity. Another is to walk from Cape St Vincent (Portugal) to Istanbul (Turkey). 1600 miles completed by the summer of 2010 with about 5400 miles to go. I'm not seriously expecting to complete this walk but that is all part of the folly.

My Geohashes

2010-08-11 52 1 - A five mile walk including the haspoint and a nice visit to the historic village of Laxfield. Logged at wikiloc.

2010-08-10 51 0 - A six mile walk including the haspoint and fine views over the River Crouch valley. Logged at wikiloc.

2010-08-07 52 0 - At 4pm on Saturday 7th August 2010, I visited the co-ordinates of the day in the Cambridge UK graticule. No one else was there. Next time, I'll pre-advertise my intention to make an expedition. This was my first ever geohash. It was an easy one, right beside a bridle path. Logged at wikiloc.

My Achievements

Sourcerer earned the Midnight Geohash achievement by reaching the (2010-08-13)/52,1 (52, 1) geohash on date (2010-08-13) in the middle of the night.

Sourcerer earned the Consecutive geohash achievement by reaching 2 consecutive hash points starting on 2010-08-10.

Sourcerer earned the Land geohash achievement by reaching the (52, 0) geohash on 2010-08-07.

Sourcerer earned the Juggernaut achievement by reaching a geohash in a straight line (with a deviation less than 1:23) on 2010-08-07.