User:Norsemark

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Introduction

I'm Mark and I live within the London West graticule.

I'm hoping to put some more detail on this page soon, but for starters I discovered Geohashing via the T-Mobile G1 app when searching for xkcd apps and it merges my fondness for experimental travel and xkcd. Perfect.

After weeks of joking and threats to friends I finally achieved (and failed) my virgin Hash Attempt on May 31, 2009 and have the appetite for more. Unwittingly I might have set a few hares running with the distance - more detail on my talk page and that of the attempt itself, linked below.



Hash Attempts

2009

# Date & Time Graticule Hashpoint Locality Route Result Achievements (Count) Report/Plan
1 Sun 31st May
11am-5pm
London West 51.914° N
0.533° W
Thorn, N of Houghton Regis, Beds Google Maps Failed Mother Nature's Bitch (1) Here
2 Sun 21st June
3pm-5pm
London West 51.491° N
0.021° W
Isle of Dogs, London Part 1
Part 2
Success Public Transport (1) Here
3 Sun 21st June
5pm-9pm
London East 51.491° N
0.021° E
Greenwich, London Google Maps Failed Mother Nature's Bitch (2) Here
4 Sun 28th June
Afternoonish
London West 51.910° N
0.306° W
Field nr. Preston, Herts - - - Here


Achievements

I've listed them per expedition in the table above, so this list recognises only the first time that each of them was achieved, in chronological order:

Accomplishments

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Norsemark earned the Public transport geohash achievement
by reaching the (51, -0) geohash on 2009-06-21 via FCC train, Northern Line tube, DLR light railway & rail replacement bus!.


Consolation Prizes

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NorseMark earned the "Mother Nature's Bitch" Consolation Prize
by failing to reach the (51, -0) geohash on 2009-05-31.
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Ambitions

Outstanding ambitions

Being based in the corner hundredth of my graticule is a good opportunity to claim some early achievement scalps, so for starters I hope to achieve the following:

  • Multihash achievement, most likely in London East graticule when the latitude decimal is smaller than 0.1° and the longitude decimal is greater than 0.8° (approx once every fifty days)
  • Consecutive Geohash Achievement, probably when the hashpoint in Northampton is close, likely on days when the latitude decimal is less than 0.2° and the longitude decimal is smaller than 0.1° (again, approx once every fifty days)
  • Minesweeper achievement, probably by reaching both London East and Northampton
  • to defeat Mother Nature and earn the MNIMB achievement

Failed ambitions

I don't mind a bit of brutal honesty. What doesn't kill me will only make me stronger. These are things I'd planned to do but didn't

  • to not achieve the Mother Nature's Bitch consolation prize again before I've completed my 5th attempt (listed after #1 was a MNB)

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