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Aargh, where have our medals gone?

Have been staying up late, watching the Olympics all the last week. Great stuff from Team GB.
The BBC seems to have temporarily erased the 19 silver and bronze medals we currently have though! Let’s have them back please!

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Odd Maps

While doing some research for a project, I came across a number of unusual orienteering maps:
“Trog-O” - In an underground warren of caves, in south London. Article, map.
“Metr-O” - Orienteering above - and in - a major underground station in Italy. Article, map.
“Ship-O” - On three levels of a cruise ship, in Turkey. Article, map.
“Urb-O” [...]

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What’s On My iPhone?

iPhone 3G Good:

A lot of very nice, free apps - the Facebook and Bloomberg apps are particularly impressive. Apple’s Remote app is superb.
Generally a very responsive OS and the screen looks fantastic.
The GPS seems to get a fix in tough conditions (e.g. indoors) although there’s no way to know that this is a GPS fix [...]

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Sheffield Garmin Ultrasprint

I caught an early train up to Sheffield yesterday, for the Garmin Ultrasprint, that SYO were organising as part of the “Cliffhanger” outdoor activities festival. The event promised the famous “labyrinth” and I was intrigued to see how I would fare.
The map consisted of two 1:1000 sections, of the labyrinth, which were visited at the [...]

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Maps and Courses, the Mac Way

I’ve just sent off my first “proper” orienteering map to the printers.
The process was slightly convoluted:

Survey done by annotating OS base map and taking photographs. Averaged 3ha per hour.
Cartography done in Adobe Illustrator CS3 on Mac OS X. Used my photos, annotations, Google aerial photos and MS Birds Eye (oblique) photos. Averaged about 0.5ha per [...]

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QM Race - Map Done

A week until the event. The map is done, now it needs to be edited and corrected!
Here’s a MOO card for the event that I designed, and would have bought to promote it, except it would have taken too long to be delivered
Hope you like it! I might do one of these for [...]

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One Map, One Week

I’ve set myself the challenge of drawing a complete ISSOM sprint map in seven days.
The event is on the evening of Tuesday 8 July and it’s a sprint race at the Queen Mary (University of London) Mile End Campus, and Mile End Park, which is immediately to its east. The fast running through the [...]

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Jukola

1:55am here - and it’s already getting light in Finland (3:55am) there.
Maybe time to get some sleep…

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An Uneven Distribution of Orienteering Events

timbean talks about Orienteering Blackholes - places in the UK where not much goes on - at least this time of year - in terms of events.
Looking at my Map of Orienteering Events, there certainly are some interesting patterns - the icons show events happening in the next ten weeks. The big clusters are around [...]

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Brill

This Tuesday, I headed off to Oxford for an informal evening event put on by TVOC at Brill village. The event is held every year, and I’ve been quite a few times in the last few years. Unfortunately Brill is not an easy village to get to - long ago, the London Underground used to [...]

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