Home / Development

Development

Twitter Usage Finally Increasing in Orienteering

The last three months since WorldofO.com opened a Twitter account, we’ve seen a significant increase in orienteering related content and users surfacing at Twitter. In April we included the last tweets from @Worldofo in the right margin of the WorldofO.com frontpage, and since then we have seen several fresh Twitter ...

Read More »

World of O Maps: Open for additions

It is now possible to add/change map information in World of O Maps, but currently with some limitations in functionality. The two most important limitations is that new maps may not be added for countries which already have a full o-map database (Switzerland, Norway, Austria, Slovakia, Slovenia, Great Britain and ...

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 »

Welcome to Austria

Finally one of the top austrian runners will be present here at World of O. Martin Pongratz is ranked 194 at the World Ranking, and has quite a few interesting (and long) stories at his web page – so it will definetely be worth a visit. He has, for example, ...

Read More »

Archive of old World of O stories

I have had several requests about where to find some of the stories I have written here at World of O – for example the Micro-O analysis from the Norwegian Champs, the stories from WUOC and some of the national team presentations I wrote before WOC in Århus this summer. ...

Read More »

WOC 2006: Runner profiles updated with results from long final

All runner profiles are now updated with results from all qualification and final races which have been run thus far in this WOC, including todays long final. Pictures from the race today and yesterday are also included in the runner profiles. Note that you get a larger version of the ...

Read More »

WOC 2006: Runner profiles updated with todays pictures

All runner profiles are now updated with pictures from todays race. Pictures from the race yesterday are also included in the runner profiles now. Note that you get a larger version of the pictures when you click a picture. You find the runner profiles here: Use of pictures All picture ...

Read More »

New design and site additions

Gøril Fristad, Carl Waaler Kaas and Faaborg Elite Team and NM-uka 2006 pages have been added. Also, after several e-mails from people telling me that the design of ‘World of O’ was boring and old-fashioned, I used part of the weekend to freshen the design of ‘World of O’ up ...

Read More »