Are there any good #openstreetmap frontends for #orienteering/#rogaining?
I mostly use government forestry maps for teaching #scouts but they are getting a bit old and include a fair bit of extraneous detail.
At a minimum I need to be able to print to a PDF at a defined scale with UTM grid, contours, roads and tracks. Blazed trees would be great but probably a stretch goal.
Noch ein wenig Kartenstudium in #OsmAnd+ vor der #Lugdonight ... Wer hat mich für 12 km angemeldet? #Orienteering #Lyon
It's the periodic sort-out and filing of #orienteering maps if I ever needed a visual representation of how many events I've done in the last few months
No pic as obvs didn't have phone with me, but today's #orienteering race in the snow was fun. Easier to see further in forest, easier to run as vegetation squashed down, easier to see where others had gone, easier to spot orange triangles on white background.
Reminded me of the Dales Trophy in 1989, still my snowiest race.
I had rather overconfidently assumed that my days of making serious errors in #orienteering were behind me. Consigned to my beginner days. You know, about two months ago. Well, today was the wake up call. Ran off the edge of the map and was totally lost for some time. Nice day out in the winter sunshine, though.
A training race in the snow... and when was the last time my #orienteering shoes were this clean?
@sborrill Actually I got an #orienteering shirt for Christmas too 😄
Advances in #compass technology
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiDhbZ8-BZI
Today I'm going to wear my new T-shirt that I got for Christmas in "Child buys excellent and thoughtful present" shocker. #orienteering
I knew that #orienteering had become my number one hobby. But I didn't expect to get withdrawal symptoms from a two week Christmas layoff.
Running, navigating and getting lost 🧭🌲
Orienteering in the Kattenbos in Lommel.
This checkpoint I missed and 20 minutes later I found it finally. What a relieve !
Be Expert with Map and Compass: The Complete Orienteering Handbook 4ed by Carina Kjellstrom Elgin & Björn Kjellström, 2025
The classic map and compass navigation guide, updated with new features and tips
How to read a map, map symbols, traveling by map and compass alone or by map and compass together, finding bearings, sketching maps, and traveling in the wilderness
The Military League (South) festive #orienteering score course on Tuesday included three unmarked controls: a mobile Santa, a mobile fairy, and a (fixed) Christmas tree.
Who said the #BritishArmy don't have a sense of humour?
My 2025 #orienteering summary
104 events totalling 708km
Won:
- Club Summer MapRun league (overall)
- Club all-events league (Men Vets)
- East Anglian Championship (M50)
- East Anglian Forest League (M50)
- East Anglian Urban League (Men Vets)
Plus:
- 3rd Southern England Orienteering Urban League (Men Vets)
Not a bad final year before I move up to M55 and Supervets.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@abbe98/115725952178671309
Very happy with today's progress of porting Purple Pen (purple-pen.org) to Linux.
Yesterday #orienteering, city sprint in Ostrava. For the first time list of controls didn't fit into my holder 😁 (But course was just 4,7km long.)
BTW one of magical aspect of this sport is how few hundred of people suddenly gathers in the middle of nowhere and after few hours just disappears.
This was unofficial event organized by single man. And there were 176 runners... 😄 I'm so glad that one can still place box for ~3€ per map and it just works.
Running round the streets of Stratford in East London, after dark. Where's the pleasure in that? Well, it's a lot of fun when it's a #streetorienteering event, especially since a post-race pint and chat is part of it. Thanks to Dartford Orienteers for organising it.
Several hard falls during todays #Orienteering practise. Not advised to do that in heavy rain wearing glasses with virtually no visibility. No pain in the beginning, but now there's some. But very likely no bigger damage.
