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Stratford City Race
Yesterday was the Stratford City orienteering race, organised and planned by Josh Jenner, with the map done by myself. The map was a real fiddle to do, requiring four site…
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UK Orienteering Fixtures Map – New Version
Posted on January 6, 2011 | 4 CommentsCross-posted from my research blog. Five years ago, I created a mashup of forthcoming orienteering fixtures in Great Britain, as listed by the sport’s national governing body, British Orienteering, on... -
Nike+ SportWatch GPS Unveiled at CES
Posted on January 6, 2011 | 1 CommentNike’s unveiled a new GPS watch – the Nike+ SportWatch (press release) for runners, today at CES. It gets launched in the US and UK in April, and other countries... -
Repetitive Running
Posted on November 13, 2010 | No CommentsHere is my GPS tracklog for the middle Sunday afternoon session of the Nike Grid game, running between two phoneboxes in E2. In order to stave off boredom, I tried... -
Nike Grid is Back
Posted on October 11, 2010 | 3 CommentsNike’s alternative reality game/metrogaine/street-o – Nike Grid - is coming back to the streets of London. This time it’s over two weeks rather than just a weekend, and involves an... -
Urban Orienteering this Year
Posted on October 10, 2010 | No CommentsThe Warwick Town Race was the final urban orienteering race in this year’s Nopesport Urban League, so I thought I would recap the six urban races I enjoyed the most... -
Three-Dimensional Estate Map
Posted on October 10, 2010 | No CommentsI spotted this rather fantastic estate map in Chislehurst, while heading to the Bromley parkrun on Saturday morning: Tweet -
Orienteering 2.0
Posted on September 17, 2010 | No CommentsAt tomorrow’s City of London Race I’m trying something a bit interactive – a Twitter Wall and Photo Wall for the event. Tweet your photos and comments with hashtag #cityrace... -
Third City of London Race – Just A Few Days Away!
Posted on September 13, 2010 | No CommentsThe 3rd City of London orienteering race is happening this Saturday, and the entry this year is huge – over 700 people have pre-entered online, and entries on the day... -
TwittFont
Posted on September 7, 2010 | No CommentsHere’s a TwittFont animation of my Twitter posts: Tweet -
O-Scape and GhettOCAD
Posted on August 21, 2010 | No CommentsA couple of interesting software programs for orienteering mapping have appeared recently. I haven’t yet looked in depth at either, but both could potentially be very useful for producing new... -
Long Distance Routing with the Garmin Forerunner 305
Posted on August 9, 2010 | 3 CommentsI’ve just cycled from Land’s End to London, taking a meandering route and covering 1012km (630 miles) over the course of 10 days. And I did it without any maps.... -
Garmin Forerunner 305 Battery Charging Failure – Solved!
Posted on July 18, 2010 | 6 CommentsI’ve had my Garmin Forerunner 305 sports GPS for nearly three years now and it’s logged several thousand km of running and cycling. Up until recently it worked pretty flawlessly,... -
OOM used for HH Street-O Event
Posted on July 1, 2010 | No CommentsSimon has a good article about how OpenOrienteeringMap was used for a street orienteering event in St Albans. See it here. Tweet -
OS Locator vs OSM
Posted on June 1, 2010 | 1 CommentITOWorld have created a rather nice streetname error indicator layer for Great Britain, which graphically shows naming inconsistencies for streets, between OS Locator (part of the Ordnance Survey Open Data... -
Summer Plans
Posted on May 28, 2010 | No CommentsWhat I’m planning on doing this summer: #spaced td { padding: 3px; } 3 June pm LOK Park Race Grovelands Park 5km 5 June parkrun Hackney Marshes 5km 8 June... -
Marathons
Posted on May 27, 2010 | No CommentsSo, I ran my first marathon last Sunday – the Edinburgh Marathon. Although really it’s the East Lothian Marathon, as 19 of the 26 miles are outside the city, and...