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Using the iPhone for Mobile Control-Checking

This afternoon, I was around, checking the control for the City Race. Rather than take pen and paper, which would have been the traditional thing to do, I took the iPhone.
Prior to going out, I created a spreadsheet in Google Docs. In the spreadsheet, I named the first workbook “Controls” and added a number of [...]

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City Race Entries

If you haven’t entered the City Orienteering Race then get your skates on - entries close on Tuesday and some courses are nearing capacity. The event is less than two weeks away and shaping up to be a classic. The map has been a year in the making.
Today I was out checking some of the [...]

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French 6 Days

This was my summer orienteering holiday. I last went to the French back in 2003. This time, the races were on the Larzac Plateau, in the Massif Central in south central France. It was the combined SLOW and JOK holiday, and OUOC were also there, so there were plenty of people I knew who I [...]

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City of London Race - Entries Now Open

Entries are now open for the City of London race, the race is filling up fast! It’s on in just six weeks.
The official race website is at http://www.cityrace.org/ and you can enter through there.
Here’s a teaser section of the map:

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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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