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Tag: geohashing

  • World map showing the outer extent of the areas in which Dan has geocached/geohashed. A shaded polygon covers the UK (except the far North of Scotland), parts of California, Cape Town, and parts of Italy and Austria.

    My Geo*ing Limits

    Let's use some self-data-mining plus a convex hull algorithm to plot a convex polygon onto a map that optimally encircles the entire corpus of my successful geocaching/geohashing expeditions!

    Read more (434 words)

    • Article
    • 10 comments
    • posted 4 April, 2024
  • Dan, smiling, holding up his GPSr, in a field.

    Geohashing expedition 2024-02-10 51 -1

    In my first expedition in a while, I made two brave outings to an exceptionally muddy field this morning in order to find a geohashpoint.

    Read more - about 3 minutes (541 words)

    • Checkin
    • to 2024-02-10 51 -1
    • 1 comment
    • posted 10 February, 2024
  • Dan drinking beer from a Wye Valley Brewery pint glass.

    [Bloganuary] The Gift of Time

    The best gifts I've ever received have been those that take me out of my routine (or give me the time and space to do so for myself!).

    Read more - about 3 minutes (573 words)

    • Article
    • posted 4 January, 2024
  • Dan with his thumbs-up in front of the high-score table (with the top-ranking spot about to be filled) of Wonder Boy, on a generic "80s Arcade Classics" arcade cabinet.

    [Bloganuary] Playtime

    Do I get to "play" in my daily life? Absolutely. For this Bloganuary prompt, I'm looking at the ways in which I play.

    Read more - about 3 minutes (693 words)

    • Article
    • 3 comments
    • posted 2 January, 2024
  • Ruth and Dan walking through a lush temperate forest.

    Not the Isle of Man

    Ruth and I celebrated our anniversary this week by going to the Isle of Man. Except we never got there and instead Ruth lost her job and I got sick.

    Read more - about 6 minutes (1323 words)

    • Article
    • posted 27 July, 2023
  • Dan, wearing a grey Three Rings hoodie, carrying French Bulldog Demmy, standing on a path with trees in the background.

    Geohashing expedition 2023-07-27 51 -1

    Ruth dropped the dog and I off for a walk to a hashpoint while she collected some shopping.

    Read more (249 words)

    • Checkin
    • to 2023-07-27 51 -1
    • posted 27 July, 2023
  • Image representing post: Geohashing expedition 2023-03-10 51 -1

    Geohashing expedition 2023-03-10 51 -1

    The dog needed a walk, so we explored North Leigh Common in the dark and found a hashpoint.

    Read more (301 words)

    • Checkin
    • to 2023-03-10 51 -1
    • posted 10 March, 2023
  • Dan - a man with a beard, wearing a grey fleece with a white poppy attached - crouches alongside his French Bulldog in a green field under a blue sky with a few wispy clouds.

    Geohashing expedition 2023-01-02 51 -1

    Taking a dog for a walk up a hill: couldn't be simpler, right? What if there were a flood in the way?

    Read more (233 words)

    • Checkin
    • to 2023-01-02 51 -1
    • 4 comments
    • posted 2 January, 2023
  • Dan, in the dark and wearing a cycle helmet, holds up a GPS receiver.

    Geohashing expedition 2022-12-05 51 -1

    A cycle in the dark leads to a hashpoint on a bridleway and the opportunity to improve OpenStreetMap.

    Read more (294 words)

    • Checkin
    • to 2022-12-05 51 -1
    • 2 comments
    • posted 5 December, 2022
  • A view through a barbed-wire fence, flanked by trees, into a grassy field with three light brown bullocks. A map "pin" is superimposed indicating a point around 25 metres into the field.

    Geohashing expedition 2022-12-02 51 -1

    This hashpoint looked like it'd be a walk in the park, but it nearly ended up as a battle with bullocks.

    Read more (293 words)

    • Checkin
    • to 2022-12-02 51 -1
    • 2 comments
    • posted 2 December, 2022
  • Dan makes a silly grin while holding a GPS receiver in a damp grassy autumn meadow, on a grey and drizzly day.

    Geohashing expedition 2022-10-24 51 -1

    In search of a geohashpoint, Dan explores the Wharf Stream Way Meadow near Eynsham.

    Read more (320 words)

    • Checkin
    • to 2022-10-24 51 -1
    • posted 24 October, 2022
  • Dan, wet, by a brick wall

    Geohashing expedition 2022-02-20 52 -1

    Dan makes a geohashing expedition to an aluminium-shaping plant in Birmingham.

    Read more - about 3 minutes (556 words)

    • Checkin
    • to 2022-02-20 52 -1
    • posted 20 February, 2022
  • Dan, windswept, in a field

    Geohashing expedition 2022-02-19 52 -2

    There's a footpath in Kinnersley, Herefordshire. And now Dan's been there.

    Read more (476 words)

    • Checkin
    • to 2022-02-19 52 -2
    • 2 comments
    • posted 19 February, 2022
  • Dan in a grassy field holding a GPSr and grinning

    Geohashing expedition 2022-02-08 51 -1

    A field near Kingston Bagpuize is the site of a geohashing expedition by Dan.

    Read more (331 words)

    • Checkin
    • to 2022-02-08 51 -1
    • posted 8 February, 2022
  • Dan with a GPSr doing a silly grin

    Geohashing expedition 2022-02-01 51 -1

    Dan visits an under-construction solar power plant in an effort to reach a geohashpoint.

    Read more (396 words)

    • Checkin
    • to 2022-02-01 51 -1
    • 12 comments
    • posted 1 February, 2022

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