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Pub-O
Posted on January 26, 2010 | 1 CommentWhile digging through some old directories, I came across this artwork for an OUOC social back in 1999: [Update - I believe this may be the work of the legendary... -
Drawing Nice ISSOM Buildings in Illustrator
Posted on January 15, 2010 | No CommentsISSOM orienteering maps show buildings in plan view. Many buildings edges are orthogonal (i.e. at right angles to each other) – here’s how to draw these buildings neatly and correctly... -
Review of the Year 2009: Part 1
Posted on January 14, 2010 | No Comments2009 was a year in which I started to do less orienteering (after 13 years in the sport), a bit more running, and a lot more cycling. It was also... -
Minor Tweaks
Posted on January 13, 2010 | No CommentsSome small updates to OpenOrienteeringMap: Where trams run on or very near roads, they are now shown as being underneath the road. For the Street-O map, this means they are... -
Fair Weather Orienteering?
Posted on January 7, 2010 | No CommentsThe current cold snap is causing havoc with the UK orienteering fixtures list, with icy roads making getting to many areas impossible. The list makes for some grim reading: SLOW’s... -
Five Favourites in OpenOrienteeringMap
Posted on December 23, 2009 | 1 CommentTweet -
Brighton Street Race
Posted on December 19, 2009 | No CommentsHere’s a video of the Brighton Street Race that I ran in last Tuesday evening. It was one of SO’s regular Tuesday night training events, with a difference – a... -
OpenOrienteeringMap
Posted on December 18, 2009 | 39 CommentsWith the OpenStreetMap spatial dataset of the world, and the excellent map rendering toolkit Mapnik, it’s quite straightforward to make theme-based maps, such as OpenCycleMap, OpenPisteMap, OpenHikingMap and OpenWhitewaterMap. All... -
Testing Video Embedding
Posted on December 17, 2009 | No CommentsI’ve just set up the ability to embed videos in the blogs running off my department’s blog server, so here’s a couple of videos to test it works. Vimeo example... -
East End Orienteering
Posted on December 5, 2009 | 2 CommentsAs mentioned previously, I’m hoping there’s going to be some orienteering races put on in London’s East End over the next few years – I might organise a few. The... -
South Hampstead Street-O
Posted on December 4, 2009 | No CommentsMy route from last night’s Street-O race in South Hampstead. Tweet -
Orienteering, Inspired by London 2012?
Posted on November 19, 2009 | 2 CommentsOrienteering is not an Olympic sport, it is however a grassroots activity which just happens to have a number of venues (some existing, some potential) close to the site of... -
The Amazing Maze
Posted on October 4, 2009 | No CommentsI ran in a rather unusual orienteering event yesterday – a maze cut in a field of maize. It was the Maize Maze-O Challenge, taking place at the National Forest... -
City Race Redux
Posted on September 21, 2009 | No CommentsSo, SLOW had the second City of London race on September 12th. I extended the map west to encompass the Temple and Holborn areas, but left the planning to Alan... -
Going South of the River
Posted on September 21, 2009 | 5 CommentsHere’s my planned mapping for the next extension to the City of London orienteering map: The plan is to do one of the nine sectors every three weeks between January... -
Going back, Wayback
Posted on September 18, 2009 | 1 CommentNow that I’ve taken on maintaining the SLOW website, I’ve been digging around the myriad of directories in the site, and elsewhere on the web, to find out the history...