From Geo Hashing
I'm Robyn, also known on the internets as Qov. You may recognize me by another pseudonym from elsewhere, and I know I'm not doing a very good job of keeping quiet like this, but I can trust you not to blab, right?
I hash on foot, by bicycle and by transit, not by car, because burning fuel for pointless expeditions is dumb, but exercising for pointless expeditions is the win. I may stop off at a geohash in a car when I'm on my way elsewhere, though. When I'm at home in Vancouver I'll usually try for the nearest hash, in Vancouver, in Surrey or across the border to Bellingham. I may get over to Victoria from time to time, too. I have good maps locally. I also travel all over North America for work, so you'll see me at strange graticules elsewhere.
[edit] Future Plans
I plan to break out my extreme laziness and geohash. I'm driving to Seattle on Thursday, may try geohashing on the way if the coordinates cooperate. -Robyn 17:44, 18 November 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Statistics
[edit] Graticules
- Hashes Attempted: 41 in 24 different graticules
- Hashes Achieved: 28 in 20 different graticules
- Saturday Meetups: 3 in 3 different graticules
- Geohashers met: 6 in 2 different graticules
- Continents geohashed: 1
[edit] Things that have thwarted me
- No trespassing sign: 3
- Being chicken: 1
- Body of water: 1
- Transportation failure: 1
- Mis-setting the GPS: 1
- Time constraints: 2
- Terrain too nasty to continue safely: 3
- Inability to use a camera: 1
Never turn down a chance to geohash.
[edit] All Geohashes Attempted
Most recent are listed first. Horizontal lines are every ten missions, to facilitate counting. Bold numbers are the success count and bold words indicate an award or consolation prize taken for that attempt. I've removed my former one ribbon per geohash limitation. I've decided to count a geohash "successful" if I:
- (a) get to within the accuracy figure of the coordinates as shown by my GPS,
- (b) have the GPS show a distance remaining of zero,
- (c) get to where it is obvious I could reach the geohash, but refrain from trampling crops,
- (d) for airhashes, take a readable photo within 10 seconds of each latitude and longitude, or
- (e) get really close and meet other geohashers who didn't travel with me, while trying to reach the geohash.
I haven't yet had to use options (c) and (e): the one time I thought I would have to invoke (c), the geohash came to me.
- 2008-10-16 59 -122 (Snake River, BC): Airhash, success #27.
- 2008-10-12 55 -119 (Beaverlodge, AB): Airhash, success #26.
- 2008-10-12 56 -120 (Fort St. John, BC): Airhash, success #25.
- 2008-10-12 57 -121 (Gutah, BC): Airhash counted as failed because of a bad photo.
- 2008-10-07 55 -120 (Dawson Creek, BC): Airhash in snow and rain for success #24.
- 2008-10-07 54 -119 (Nose Creek, AB): Airhash over patchy clearing in the foothills. Success #23.
- 2008-09-27 48 -122 (Bellingham, WA): I guess I'll finally claim land with success #22.
- 2008-09-25 49 -123 (Vancouver, BC): Public transit in the rain for success #21.
- 2008-09-21 49 -124 (Port Alberni, BC: Part two of a multihash, a speedhash, and success #20.
- 2008-09-21 49 -123 (Vancouver, BC): Rubber raft sunrise and water geohash for success #19.
- 2008-09-19 49 -122 (Surrey, BC): Success #18 was a midnight and pirate geohash.
- 2008-09-13 48 -121 (North Cascades, WA): Second try in this graticule. Access road too nasty to ride on my (road) bike, especially after 75 km of riding just to get there.
- 2008-09-11 49 -123 (Vancouver, BC): I walked to #17, which was my first success in my home graticule.
- 2008-08-31 53 -113 (Edmonton, AB): A restricted area at an airport. I will count it as a failed attempt even though I failed a day early.
- 2008-08-30 53 -113 (Edmonton, AB): A Saturday meetup where I met no one, but they missed a fine spot. Success #16.
- 2008-08-30 54 -114 (Barrhead, AB): Success #15 was a drive-in geohash at a housing development in a virgin graticule.
- 2008-08-29 55 -114 (Slave Lake, AB): I was asked to fly to a point one minute and thirty seconds past today's geohash. I did as I was told for success #14.
- 2008-08-28 55 -115 (Utikuma Lake, AB): Success #13 is the first ever in the graticule. Beavers did not thwart me.
- 2008-08-26 55 -114 (Slave Lake, AB): Planned for a water geohash, but it was cold and windy and I had to work -- at the geohash! Success #12
- 2008-08-24 55 -114 (Slave Lake, AB): I don't remember the raptor attack, but I have significant claw marks on my legs. Success #11.
- 2008-08-21 55 -114 (Slave Lake, AB): First ever hash here, for success #10 and coldest documented.
- 2008-08-17 55 -115 (Utikuma Lake, AB): Mother Nature makes me her bitch in deep tangled forest.
- 2008-08-16 55 -114 (Slave Lake, AB): Stopped by deep swamp filled with metaphorical alligators a mere 0.2 nm from the geohash.
- 2008-08-15 55 -114 (Slave Lake, AB): Uphill dirt road took me too close to bedtime.
- 2008-08-14 55 -115 (Utikuma Lake, AB): Ran out of time cycling around the lake.
- 2008-07-28 48 -123 (Victoria, BC): Border geohash at Point Roberts. Success #9.
- 2008-07-21 49 -123 (Vancouver, BC): Second attempt at a hash in my home graticule. Blinded by Science entering coordinates.
- 2008-07-19 48 -121 (North Cascades, WA): Thwarted by No Trespassing sign.
- 2008-07-18 47 -122 (Seattle, WA): Ambassador achievement, on a boat dock. Success #8.
- 2008-07-14 39 -121 (Chico, CA): Suspense-filled adventure. No raptors. Success #7.
- 2008-07-13 42 -123 (Grants Pass, OR): My first speed hash. Virgin graticule. Success #6.
- 2008-07-10 44 -123 (Eugene, OR): Unsuccessful because the motorcyclist refused the road.
- 2008-07-06 47 -121 (Snoqualmie, WA): A drag-along hash, where the draggee brought me, on a motorcycle. Success #5.
- 2008-07-05 49 -122 (Surrey, BC): My first repeat hash in the same graticule, and 4th successful geohash. Logged bicycle.
- 2008-06-14 40 -112 (Tooele, UT): Unsuccessful, thwarted by a ditch in the way.
- 2008-06-14 32 -93 (Shreveport, LA): Another aerial hash, my 3rd successful one. Just missed getting the Master Pilot Award.
- 2008-06-11 31 -84 (Albany, GA): My 2nd successful geohash. First ever aerial hash reported by anyone.
- 2008-06-07 49 -123 (Vancouver, BC): Thwarted by the watershed. And wolves.
- 2008-06-04 49 -122 (Surrey, BC): just south of King George Skytrain station - My 1st successful. It's the parking lot of a Korean church slated for demolition, but said demolition hasn't stated yet and the construction fencing only covers the north side, allowing me to walk in through the west side, snap a quick photo of the parking stall and continue on my way.
- 2008-06-03 48 -122 (Bellingham, WA): east of Limestone Junction - unsuccessful, because I chickened out at the border.
- See my blog for details on my early geohashing adventures, before I had properly figured out wiki-ing.
[edit] Geohashers Met
Alphabetical by username. Date is first meeting.
[edit] Achievements
I love the idea of Achievements, I want them *all*. Just for fun, I'm trying to make an achievement at every geohash, and only taking each award once, but I've given up my earlier restriction of one award per geohash. It would also be funny to see how many achievements I could get at once. Also I take Virgin Graticule every time it is applicable. In each section, the most recent new achievement is last.
[edit] Once Is Enough Ribbons
I only take a ribbon for the first time I do one of these, even if I have achieved the feat more than once.
[edit] Upgradeable Ribbons
These ribbons change as I accomplish more.
[edit] Virgin Graticules
[edit] Checklist of achievements to get
first, time traveller, endurance, no batteries, geoflashing, underground, underwater, golf, pub, hash collision, freeway, birthday, picnic, sex, snowman, twister, phonebooth, hopper, restricted. McGyver, circus, and most everything else that has been made up.
[edit] Progress Towards Multihash Achievements
[edit] Wiki Stuff
- I've made it my goal to complete the needed pages to fix red links on the Achievements page. People keep making new achievements (which I love) but every one needs a page describing the achievement, a ribbon template, and a ribbon image.
- I like making ribbons and it makes me happy when people put them on their pages. If you have drawing or photoshopping talents please help make new or better ribbon images.
- I obsess about every page belonging to its proper categories, and every category belonging to a category, all the way up to the root.
- Placing the same page in two categories, one of which is a subcategory of the other, defeats the purpose of categories. I'm systematically rectifying such situations. An example is that a couple of hundred European graticules were classed in Europe in addition to their country categories. I'm removing the category Europe from those graticule pages.
- I came to this wiki knowing nothing about wiki, so I sympathize with others and am working on the Help page.
- My C-key doesn't work all that well, so some of my categories are ategories.
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