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| # Posted 2008-05-12 03:42:02 | |
| StoraMoo: | How far away is the technology to do the following:
1. have an orienteering meet where the runners receive a map with a course in advance by email. 2. go to the meet site whenever they want (within a certain time window of, say, two weeks). 3. run the course (without controls in the woods) with a GPS device 4. email the track to the meet director to verify they visited the control locations, then the results get posted after the two week window is closed. 5. solving the problem of parking and a lack of permission for a formal meet (a gathering of many people). |
| # Posted 2008-05-12 11:41:34 | |
| bbrooke: | Are you asking because you saw this site? Based on that site, I'd say that the technology already exists. It would require a pretty sizeable hardware investment, though. (The "TrackMe" outfit loans out the GPS units that competitors use -- perhaps to prevent people from manually editing their track files.) |
| # Posted 2008-05-12 14:55:04 | |
| bubo: | Of course this would have to be done under an honour system and supposedly there wouldn´t be anything in it other than 'glory' if you happened to have the best time.
The possibility still exists: You could go out there and run the course several times and then send in your best time (which probably should be one of the latest since you by then know the terrain). So, yes the technology is already there - and it could be a nice way to communicate and compare yourself with others. But I certainly would miss what this is really about - meeting my friends IRL. |
| # Posted 2008-05-12 17:16:31 | |
| StoraMoo: | Brooke, I did not see that site, but it is something like what I was asking about. I was asking because there are a few places in this area that would be good for orienteering except for limited parking and or an official ban on large groups of people, but not individuals going out into the woods.
The club will not spend the money for a map for such places and I thought this might be a way to work around those problems. It is true that people would have to be on the honor system, but this type of meet might generate the money to justify the map cost. At least to me, one purpose of orienteering is to run in the woods and one goal of an orienteering club is make maps to help people get out and run in the woods. |
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