Orienteering News

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 – ...

Today another small contribution in spreading orienteering news between people from different countries has been made here at World of O. The blog of the best Japanese runner, Yoko Bamba, and the Russian orienteering page O-sport.ru have been added to World of O. And as most of the ‘World of ...

9914 maps from 7 countries is what you will find in World of O Maps at its official release today. Countries included are Austria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Great Britain, Norway, Slovenia and Switzerland. I am still waiting for maps from a few more federations, including Slovakia and Hungary – and ...

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 ...