Orienteering News

Today the impressive winner maps in the Catching Features Map contest have been announced – and it looks like this map contest has been another step forward in making the orienteering simulator (or game – choose the one most appropriate for you) Catching Features (CF) even more realistic. Using the ...

Close to a few thousand(!) more Norwegian maps have been entered in the Norwegian map register during the last month or so, and are now also available through WoO Maps. Now there are nearly 4000 Norwegian maps registered – soon passing Czech Republic in terms of the number of registered ...

Now for the list of the 25 most read stories (of the total 6614 stories) at World of O in 2006 – regardless of site. 1. Live TV with 14 cameras & micro – 2006-11-20The plans for the TV coverage for the World Cup race in Hovden during O-festivalen 2007 ...

Below you find the most read stories for each of the sites included in World of O in 2006. Enjoy! Note that there are some problems with character sets – and some small problems with some sites (for example Daniel Hubmann is included twice – once with the wrong name ...

Thierry Gueorgiou’s stories where the most popular in 2006, whereas OPN.no published most stories, and was also the most clicked site from World of O in 2006. Thank you to all of you who have contributed to making World of O the major international orienteering news site since the relaunch ...

The last weeks, maps from Belarus, Bulgaria, Croatia, Finland, Israel (see map sample to the right), Italy, Poland, Spain and Sweden have been added to World of O – in addition to addition of map samples from some other countries. Why don’t you use some of the quiet Christmas time ...

Off-season time is time for web-page updates. I just got a notice that Simone Niggli-Luders homepage has got a significant update. This also makes it possible to serve you better news from Simone at World of O, including the first part of her news stories (previously only title). Take a ...

All news stories from the IOF webpage will now be included in World of O aided by improved possibilities with the restructured Orienteering.org site with new design. All information is structured in a different way now – so take a look. The design of the page is a lot fresher ...

Just a small not about some new features in WoO Calendar and WoO Maps. The fantastic thing about adding geographic location to items, is that you can easily relate items to each other. Now WoO Maps and WoO Calendar talk to each other! That is, after recent updates, it is ...

World of O Maps has been updated, and now contains all maps from the newly updated Norwegian map register – a total of more than 1800 maps (including some duplicates). The Norwegian mapping group is doing a great job registering maps using a network of people in the regions – ...