User:dawidi

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I work as a database programmer and multi-purpose geek in the "IT-Speicher" in Regensburg, Germany, and toy around with infrared thermography, unconventional r/c aircraft, aerial photography, and some other odd digital photography techniques in my free time.

I do have a website but for the moment it is horribly outdated.

I was a very active Openstreetmap mapper (back in 2007, when Regensburg almost completely missing on their map) and I've been a moderately, but constantly active Geocacher since 2006; these combine well with Geohashing expeditions.

I visited a lot of hashpoints in 2009, which was an amazing year - to a great extent thanks to geohashing expeditions and the people that accompanied me there. Since then my enthusiasm has faded a bit, so my weekend plans are no longer ruled by the DJIA, but I'm still looking for ones that would make for good day trips, and trying to at least pay a short visit to those hashpoints that are "too close not to go", which for me means that they're reachable from Regensburg by bicycle, including the corners of the neighbor graticules:

Nürnberg 49 11 Regensburg 49 12
München 48 11 Landshut 48 12

I have also been seen in other graticules across central Europe a few times, due to vacations and dedicated geohashing trips.

I can be found idling around in #geohashing most of the time, and I've built a program to generate Maps and Statistics about graticules and expeditions on the wiki.

Most recent expeditions

(newest first)

2013-12-24 49 12 hashforest.jpg 2013-12-24 49 12 in a forest north of Lorenzen, by bike.
2013-11-01 47 13 geohashing discouragement grid.jpg 2013-11-01 47 13 next to a motorway near Salzburg (not reached). 2013-09-25 49 12 across the road.jpg 2013-09-25 49 12 on a military base in Regensburg (not reached). 2013-07-28 49 11 embankment.jpg 2013-07-28 49 11 in a forest halfway between Amberg and Schwandorf, by bike with mojibake.
2013-07-23 48 12 videothumb.jpg 2013-07-23 48 12 in the Danube river near Bad Abbach. Reached by proxy through a GPS in a bottle, with Tomcat. 2013-04-24 49 12 scanorama hashpoint teaser.jpg 2013-04-24 49 12 on Hermann-Köhl-Straße in Regensburg, by bike. 2013-03-03 49 12 dawidi.jpg 2013-03-03 49 12 next to the eastern bypass in Regensburg, by bike.
2012-10-19 49 12 view east.jpg 2012-10-19 49 12 in the Donau river near dawidi's office, by bike (not reached). 2012-09-23 49 12 hashers.jpg 2012-09-23 49 12 next to a car workshop in Regensburg, on foot with mojibake. 2012-03-30 49 12 gps.jpg 2012-03-30 49 12 on a road construction site in northern Regensburg, by bike.
2012-03-17 48 12 inside plants.jpg 2012-03-17 48 12 in the Biology building on Regensburg's Uni campus, by bike with mojibake (not reached). 2012-03-02 48 12 headlightbow 2.jpg 2012-03-02 48 12 on a road in the Laber valley, by bike. 2012-01-26 49 12 tripod shadow.jpg 2012-01-26 49 12 at the edge of a forest near Lorenzen, by bike with mojibake.
2012-01-15 49 11 at the hash.jpg 2012-01-15 49 11 in a forest east of Amberg, by bike with mojibake. 2011-12-22 49 12 dawidi.jpg 2011-12-22 49 12 in an industrial area in eastern Regensburg, by bike. 2011-12-12 49 12 dawidi mojibake.jpg 2011-12-12 49 12 north of Kneiting, by bike with mojibake.

... and 99 other expeditions before that!

Most recent achievements

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dawidi so far achieved level 7 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement
by visiting coordinates in Landshut, Germany and 7 of the surrounding graticules.
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dawidi and Tomcat earned the Geohash by proxy achievement
by reaching the (48, 12) geohash on 2013-07-23 using a GPS-carrying plastic bottle on a rope.
2013-07-23 48 12 the bottle returns victoriously.jpg
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Tomcat, Hans and dawidi earned the Water geohash achievement
by reaching the (49, 12) geohash on 2011-05-31 by two inflatable kayaks.
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dawidi with AE, Schorhr and ekorren earned the Virgin Graticule Achievement
by being the first to reach any hashpoint in the (55, 8) graticule, here, on 2010-08-21.
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dawidi earned the Juggernaut achievement (beta)
by reaching a geohash in a straight line from home (with a deviation of less than 1:26) on 2010-07-30.
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dawidi earned the Déjà Vu Geohash Achievement
by reaching the (49, 12) geohash on 2010-06-22, and previously on 2007-12-25.
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Tomcat, Hans and dawidi earned the Virgin Graticule Achievement
by being the first to reach any hashpoint in the (49, 13) graticule, here, on 2009-10-04.
2009-10-04 49 13 at the hash.jpg
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dawidi earned the Multihash Achievement
by reaching the 2009-10-04 49 12 and 2009-10-04 49 13 geohashes on 2009-10-04.
2009-10-04 49 13 moonrise.jpg
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dawidi earned the Sunrise Geohash Achievement
by reaching the (49, 12) geohash on 2009-10-04 to smile at the first rays of sun to cross the horizon.
2009-10-04 49 12 contrails.jpg
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dawidi earned the Multihash Achievement
by reaching the 2009-08-27 54 9 and 2009-08-27 54 10 geohashes on 2009-08-27.
2009-08-27 54 10 caching.jpg
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Schorhr, AE and dawidi earned the Water geohash achievement
by reaching the (54, 10) geohash on 2009-08-27 by a bright orange pedal boat.
2009-08-27 54 10 happy hashers.jpg
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dawidi earned the Virgin Graticule Achievement
by being the first to reach any hashpoint in the (54, 9) graticule, here, on 2009-08-27.
2009-08-27 54 9 dawidi.jpg
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dawidi earned the Multihash Achievement
by reaching the 2009-07-21 49 12 and 2009-07-21 49 11 geohashes on 2009-07-21.
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dawidi earned the Birthday Geohash Achievement
by reaching the (49, 12) geohash on his 27th birthday, 2009-07-21.
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dawidi earned the Calendar girl achievement
by taking compromising photographs for public consumption at the (49, 12) geohash on 2009-07-21.
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dawidi earned the Border geohash achievement
by crossing the Germany-Denmark border on 2009-06-26 to reach the (54, 8) geohash.
2009-06-26 54 8 border hut.jpg
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dawidi earned the Virgin Graticule Achievement
by being the first to reach any hashpoint in the (54, 8) graticule, here, on 2009-06-24.
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dawidi earned the Holy hash achievement
by reaching the sacred (54, 8) location, which is the village's graveyard, on 2009-06-24.
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dawidi certifies that Emma and Christian Carstensen of nearby Soholm earned the Coffin Potato Achievement
by occupying a coffin at the (54, 8) geohash from 1973-09-24 and 1984-02-19, respectively, to 2009-06-24.
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... and several other achievements (virgin, drag-along, deja-vu, proxy, hashcard, frozen, meet-up, midnight, water...) which I've moved to a separate page.

I'm particularly looking for opportunities for these in the future:

a Border geohash in the Czech Republic, more Proxy Geohash variants, MNIMB Geohash, Consecutive Geohash, more Meet-Up Achievements, Origin Geohash, Tron achievement.