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Thanks to my geohashing expeditions over the last two months to a field between my house and Heathrow Airport while on my way to catch a flight, to a nature reserve near Woodstock where my crotch was attacked by a wasp, and this weekend to a field with a trigpoint in it near Tackley... I'm now officially in the "top hundred" geohashers worldwide whether measured either by number of expeditions or number of successful expeditions. Who knew that this smiley/drooly moment would be a milestone of some kind? Of course, "top hundred" is a broad category. The curve is very skewed up this end: of the several thousand people who've ever created an account1 on geohashing.site, over half have undertaken only a single expedition. Whereas at the opposite end of the scale, I'd need to do around 20 times as many expeditions to catch up with epic adventurers like GeorgDerReisende and Fippe.2 That (epic) Trinidad & Tobago expedition really skews the map, doesn't it! But there's a bigger…

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