Orienteering News

There is an interesting discussion going on over at Attackpoint regarding the future of punching in orienteering. [As you might have noticed, you now get to see the latest messages in several of the most important orienteering forums here at World of O (just scroll down to the day before ...

Videos are getting more and more used within the orienteering sport as part of invitations, race reports, race analysis or just for fun. The number of orienteering videos at YouTube and other online Video Hosting sites is growing every day – a YouTube search for “Orienteering” at YouTube now gives ...

Close to all WRE competitions in Foot-orienteering are now entered into WoO Calendar – but quite a few of them are not entered with position. With YOUR help, all of these events can be positioned! This will make it easier for people to consider which WRE competitions to attend to, ...

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 ...