There has not been much news about South Africa here at World of O. However, after the launch of the WoO Calendar last week, a few South African events have been added to the calendar, and this is definitely worth a news story. I also got a nice e-mail from ...
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Introducing: World of O Calendar
News Release: Just in time for the planning of your next summer holiday, World of O launches the World of O Calendar – an international orienteering event calendar giving you something extra. In addition to all standard event calendar features, location based searches are possible by clicking on a map ...
Read More »Technical orienteering and fantastic nature
That was what I was looking for this summer when I had a few weeks of extra vacation due to a job change. Read on to see maps and pictures from where I decided to go after a long search on the Internet. It gave me 20 top orienteering races ...
Read More »WorldofO GEO: Ready for beta-testing
With WorldofO GEO you can find out if there are any orienteering maps close to where you are, just by clicking on a map. This is what I have wanted since I started using the Internet more than 10 years ago – and now I am finally seeing it getting ...
Read More »Search more than 800 O-pages
In the right column of World of O it is now possible to perform a search through more than 800 different orienteering pages – including all sites included in ‘World of O’, national o-federation pages, club pages in several countries, etc. If you notice that your club page is not ...
Read More »Do not miss the good stories!
A new feature is now introduced at World of O: It is now possible to tell your opinion about a story by giving the story a rating between 1 and 5. Rating a story is extremely fast and easy – it will not take you more than a second or ...
Read More »Book full of Orienteering
I don’t know how many countries are so lucky that they have a yearly book with nearly 200 colorful pages about orienteering? In Norway we have “O-Boka”, the 2006 edition being available from the coming saturday at Blodslitet. I have been so lucky to be able to look through a ...
Read More »WC 2007 discussion
There have been a lot of comments to Sandy Hott Johansen’s long and interesting article regarding the WC 2007 at her homepage from many elite orienteers. It is worth to take another look at Sandy’s homepage and read the comments – and add your thoughts about the matter. Link: “Why ...
Read More »Routechoice Quiz: Bonus round
Ready for a bonus round of the Routechoice Quiz? Due to extremely good response (nearly 200 answers) – quite a few of them in english – Jo Inge Fjellstad has made an extra bonus round of the Routechoice Quiz, and also made an english translation. Expect answers to the first ...
Read More »Routechoice Quiz
The folks at Ås-UMB make some very nice routechoice quizzes – and now the october version of the routechoice quizzes are out. You can also see which routechoices where chosen in the previous quizzes. The quiz is in Norwegian, but even without knowledge of the language, I think it is ...
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