User:Spindizzy

75 / M / 40,-74

Biographical

Hi, my name is Rich and I live in the North Jersey graticule and most recently worked as a project manager for Hewlett-Packard. I recently stumbled across xkcd, which led inevitably to geohashing.

Expeditions

2011-10-10 40 -74: [Far Hills] fiasco...
2011-10-12 40 -74: Springfield, NJ

Achievements I'm shooting for

• Easy Geohash
• Pub Geohash
• Curse of Unawareness...see below
• Origin Geohash
• Retro coordinates reached

And whatever else I come across. So many categories, so little time.

Grabbed User:Wenslayer/KMLGenerator script to attempt generation of a Google Earth location history file for the North Jersey graticule. Installed [Active Perl] on my Win 7 64-bit box. Downloaded the current W30 history file allcoords.csv. The perl script took less that 1 sec. to create all geohashes from 1928 to date!
Did same for the New York City graticule looking for my Origin geohash. It's in the Atlantic ocean - will find alternate.

Spindizzy earned the No trespassing consolation prize by almost reaching the (40, -74) geohash on 2011-10-10.

Spindizzy earned the Land geohash achievement by reaching the (40, -74) geohash on 2011-10-12.

Spindizzy earned the No Batteries Geohash Achievement by reaching the (40, -74) geohash on 2011-10-12.

Well, I won't get this...

• Oldest Geohash