Monthly Archives: April 2009

At-a-Glance Courses

Course Indicators
I’ve added a new feature to the map of orienteering events – you can now see the range of available courses for each event, via the set of coloured boxes on the right hand side. Mouse-over or click a box for more details.

I’ve also refined the links to the road-maps and the Geograph photos, and added in the region that each event is in, you can also filter by the region. Due to a quirk with the data source at British Orienteering, this information is only available ten weeks into the future, hence why the Scottish 6 Days don’t yet show as being an event in Scotland.

Finally, there is now a way to pre-filter the results (and pins on the map) to be for a certain region or club – this is an “undocumented” feature, to access it you append an “&c=club” or “&c=region” to the end of the URL, using the acronym for the club or region concerned. Use NIOA, SOA and WOA for Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales respectively, and the two-letter codes for the English regions.

For example, to show all the events in the south-east of England (SEOA region) use http://www.oobrien.com/map/?p=E1&c=SE.

Dopplr

I’ve had a Dopplr account for a while now. It’s a rather cool service for basically saying where in the world you will be. It’s a shame that not many people I know are on it, as like all social networking sites, it gets better and better as your network moves onto it.

One unexpected freebie that Dopplr did at the end of last year is take everyone’s historical data and create a personalised report of what they did in 2008. In the usual Dopplr style, it’s attractively presented and a little quirky – with the famous city colours (each city has a colour associated with it, based on a conversion of its name into hexadecimal).

Here’s mine for 2008 – it links to a larger version on Flickr:
My 2008 Dopplr Report

I only made two foreign trips last summer, and so far only have one planned this year, although it will be a lot further away than in 2008.