The plans for the TV coverage for the World Cup race in Hovden during O-festivalen 2007 were gigantic, when considering that this is an orienteering event. Norway’s largest commercial TV channel, TV2, had really ambitious plans for the race at Hovden. The plan was to spend 200.000 euros – three ...

Micro. Macro. The media future of orienteering. Printing of orienteering maps with a laser printer. These were some of the issues covered at Holmenkollen this weekend. It was a big weekend for Norwegian Orienteering with 200 of the most influential people in the sport assembled in Holmenkollen Park Hotel for ...

It is now also possible to add Training camps and Orienteering-travels in the WoO Calendar. Thus, now clubs, organizations or individuals who organize training camps can add their offers in the calendar. When more entries are added, this will make it easier to plan a training camp. Currently there are ...

At Daniel Hubmann’s page, finally good quality scans of all maps from WMOC competitions in Brasil are available. As a bonus, the maps includes the routechoices of the winner from the long distance at WMOC (yes, that was Daniel Hubmann). Link: WMOC report at Daniel Hubmann homepage

There is a very interesting project going on among some junior orienteers preparing for the Junior World Orienteering Champs in Australia next summer. Basically, they plan to Redraw some of the relevant maps for JWOC available on the official JWOC site in OCAD Convert them to Catching Features format using ...

… here is one of the training maps from the WMOC in Brasil while waiting for the maps from yesterdays middle distance and todays long distance. [From I-OL forum – training map of Clemens Roos]. See also the middle warm-up course from Martin Pongratz page – We analyzed the races ...

Wikipedia integration, maps from competitions and results browsing are some of the new features that have been added in the WoO Calendar. Also thanks to all of you who have added competitions – more than 50 competitions have been added the last few days – more than 20 of them ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...