Discussion: Find US Orienteering Clubs and Events Near You
in: Orienteering; General
Jul 30, 2011 11:41 AM
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All,
If you go on-line today you can find the clubs and races nearest you (or where you are heading when on the road). Just go to www.orienteeringusa.org and click on "Come Try Orienteering". That will then give you a variety of options to get to the clubs, their event calendars and the permanent courses nearest to you.
Thanks to the Web Committee, especially Pat Dunlavey, for this important upgrade to the website.
If you are in New York today, run well. See you all tomorrow in Rochester at the convention.
Glen
If you go on-line today you can find the clubs and races nearest you (or where you are heading when on the road). Just go to www.orienteeringusa.org and click on "Come Try Orienteering". That will then give you a variety of options to get to the clubs, their event calendars and the permanent courses nearest to you.
Thanks to the Web Committee, especially Pat Dunlavey, for this important upgrade to the website.
If you are in New York today, run well. See you all tomorrow in Rochester at the convention.
Glen
Aug 1, 2011 8:54 PM
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that's nice. Next step: list and map the events.
Right now, it is only showing on a US map the club home address. That is not very useful if you are flying to somewhere in Florida, where an event may be 10 hours driving distance from another within the same club/state.
An example: this fall I might go in the Wash DC area to visit a friend during a weekend. Hey, while I am in the area, I might check out if there is a QOC (Quantico Orienteering Club) event. So I go to their website, but it just presents a tabular text listing of upcoming events, not a map-based display. To figure out if the venue of the event that is scheduled on that same weekend of my visit in the area, is within driving proximity of where I am going to be at, I gotta go to this site on the QOC website
http://qoc.us.orienteering.org/content/our-venues-...
Only then, I can make an accurate determination if I will hitting a orienteering course on the fly while driving by.
Not that other national federation clubs are any better. Here is the one for Italy. I am traveling that country for pleasure trip this month of August, here is the list of all the orienteering events in that country, as submitted by the clubs affiliated with that country's federation:
http://www.fiso.it/03_gare/?disciplina=CO&interess...
Now, that is not that useful for me to quickly grasp where the events are, unless I am a native and can recognize these cryptic location names. To determine if there is an O event near the Tuscan home I am renting or beach I am camping, I would have to copy and paste the city and province code into maps.google.com, and with some luck, get a good idea where on the land that event is.
I can easily find where the closest Wal-Mart or Trader Joe is, maybe I can do the same for O events within a 100 mile radius.
Right now, it is only showing on a US map the club home address. That is not very useful if you are flying to somewhere in Florida, where an event may be 10 hours driving distance from another within the same club/state.
An example: this fall I might go in the Wash DC area to visit a friend during a weekend. Hey, while I am in the area, I might check out if there is a QOC (Quantico Orienteering Club) event. So I go to their website, but it just presents a tabular text listing of upcoming events, not a map-based display. To figure out if the venue of the event that is scheduled on that same weekend of my visit in the area, is within driving proximity of where I am going to be at, I gotta go to this site on the QOC website
http://qoc.us.orienteering.org/content/our-venues-...
Only then, I can make an accurate determination if I will hitting a orienteering course on the fly while driving by.
Not that other national federation clubs are any better. Here is the one for Italy. I am traveling that country for pleasure trip this month of August, here is the list of all the orienteering events in that country, as submitted by the clubs affiliated with that country's federation:
http://www.fiso.it/03_gare/?disciplina=CO&interess...
Now, that is not that useful for me to quickly grasp where the events are, unless I am a native and can recognize these cryptic location names. To determine if there is an O event near the Tuscan home I am renting or beach I am camping, I would have to copy and paste the city and province code into maps.google.com, and with some luck, get a good idea where on the land that event is.
I can easily find where the closest Wal-Mart or Trader Joe is, maybe I can do the same for O events within a 100 mile radius.
Aug 1, 2011 9:43 PM
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Aug 1, 2011 9:47 PM
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Aug 1, 2011 10:18 PM
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bct:
http://www.attackpoint.org/eventmap.jsp
Colo(u)r-coded by time period does look pretty dope.
Colo(u)r-coded by time period does look pretty dope.
Aug 1, 2011 11:27 PM
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All,
Thanks for the input. The web committee is looking at the next step as well. I will share this. What we have now is a huge improvement over what we had (nothing), but we have further to go.
Glen
Thanks for the input. The web committee is looking at the next step as well. I will share this. What we have now is a huge improvement over what we had (nothing), but we have further to go.
Glen
Aug 1, 2011 11:29 PM
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An additional thought for all to discuss....
Would love to do some type of geolocator so events could come up within x miles of the zipcode you type in. How do we do this without requiring a lot of work from the clubs or hiring freelancers to do the work.
Just asking. Honestly don't have the answer.
Glen
Would love to do some type of geolocator so events could come up within x miles of the zipcode you type in. How do we do this without requiring a lot of work from the clubs or hiring freelancers to do the work.
Just asking. Honestly don't have the answer.
Glen
Aug 2, 2011 7:30 AM
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bubo:
Events within x miles is already present here at the AP Events listings...
Shouldn´t be too hard to fix.
Shouldn´t be too hard to fix.
Aug 2, 2011 8:47 PM
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I can easily find where the closest Wal-Mart or Trader Joe is, maybe I can do the same for O events within a 100 mile radius.
You mean something like this under Upcoming Events -> Find an Event Near You on the QOC website?
You mean something like this under Upcoming Events -> Find an Event Near You on the QOC website?
Aug 2, 2011 9:31 PM
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> You mean something like this .. "Find an Event Near You" on the QOC website?
instead of textual list, a graphical image of a map with meet locations. Target [department store in the US] website uses a target icon as a symbol on the map to mark their store locations. Touché.
instead of textual list, a graphical image of a map with meet locations. Target [department store in the US] website uses a target icon as a symbol on the map to mark their store locations. Touché.
Aug 4, 2011 1:55 PM
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I do like the capability on AP....having a filter for date range would be nice, too.
Something like this, but perhaps less clunky
Marathons in US
Does having a separate version on the OUSA site provide any benefit?
Something like this, but perhaps less clunky
Marathons in US
Does having a separate version on the OUSA site provide any benefit?
Aug 4, 2011 2:11 PM
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> Does having a separate version on the OUSA site provide any benefit?
Yes, it does.
There are lots of folks who use that site who do not even know that AttackPoint exists. Also, it should be the responsibility of OUSA to promote events, not AttackPoint. (The fact that AttackPoint does such a good job of this is a wonderful benefit, but OUSA should not rely on an independent source for this service.)
Yes, it does.
There are lots of folks who use that site who do not even know that AttackPoint exists. Also, it should be the responsibility of OUSA to promote events, not AttackPoint. (The fact that AttackPoint does such a good job of this is a wonderful benefit, but OUSA should not rely on an independent source for this service.)
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