User talk:Alastair

Grat naming

Hi Alistair, welcome the geohashing :) I just edited your page so the link to your graticule now works; we have a naming convention for graticules, and a lot of them are named already. You can find out what graticules are called by going to the map tool and clicking on your grat - if the grat is named it will appear on the top right. Good luck with your expeditions, and feel free to come visit #geohashing or leave a note on my tak page if you need any help. --joannac 19:59, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

Hey Alastair! I'm just over in Lansing, so maybe we'll see each other out there some time! --excellentdude 22:33, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

Gee, thanks guys. I didn't think anyone would really notice that I had made an account, especially someone from Australia. This graticule seems pretty dead right now, but I'm hoping to make at least one winter hash. I don't plan on going to any too far away right now but once it gets warmer I'm going to try to make nearby hashes by bike and a few that are further away by car. Hopefully I'll see you around, excellentdude. I was actually just in Lansing last week for a friend's birthday party. I had to drive out there during that really big snowstorm, it wasn't very fun. Maybe once it gets warmer though.

P.S. I have no idea if this was the correct way to respond to you guys. Should I be leaving comments on your talk pages? I guess I'll find out if I don't hear back... --Alastair 21:04, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

Good to hear from you, too. If you're back this way and planning on trying one, let me know. And I had that same question about responding when I joined. This way is cool. I usually click the tab to watch a page if I've edited it to see if anyone responds. Have a good one! --excellentdude 21:11, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

Wow, thanks for the amazingly quick response and wonderful information. I was only there for Saturday night and a bit of Sunday afternoon and that's the only time I've ever been out there, but if I'm going to be out that way again I'll let you know. Unfortunately, right now I can't drive too much because I'm quite broke and gas is pretty expensive and that's way too far to travel to by bike, but maybe in the spring or summer. Thanks again, cheers. --Alastair 21:15, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

Hi Alistair -- don't worry, there's more than just your graticule that seems completely dead right now! I've only made it to one hashpoint so far, as everything else seems to have been too far away or right in the middle of a field, but hey, sometime soon it'll be on our doorsteps, right? Good luck with your geohashing. -- Benjw 21:23, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks Ben! Hashing may be dead right now but at least the web site is alive and kicking. I'm kind of curious, how did you find out about my account since you're all the way over in the UK? I'm hoping to make one a hash soon but unfortunately most of my graticule is on a lake or in another country (I live right near the border of Canada) but fortunately I live right on the edge of a graticule so hopefully there are a couple nearby in that one. --Alastair 00:38, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

If you look to the left of your browser window, there are a few wiki links, the sixth one of which is "Recent changes". I keep an eye on that page to see what people have been adding to the wiki, so I can read new stuff like today's expeditions, new hashers, and so on. So that's how Joannac and I found out about you... :-) Another country, by the way, is no boundary to geohashing, but the lake might be more awkward. Hope you get some in the other direction! -- Benjw 07:59, 25 January 2009 (UTC)