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Virtual Orienteering

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Jen HB
Jen HB
Aug 2024
7:50pm, 21 Aug 2024
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I went out and did my course this evening - don't like running holding my phone and was worried I would miss a flag, so this is my solution (in the order I'm visiting them!)
Gooner
Gooner
Aug 2024
8:37pm, 21 Aug 2024
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Good analogue effort, I just followed roads and hoped I had remembered the right way for my first attempt 🙈😂
chunkywizard
chunkywizard
Aug 2024
2:04pm, 23 Aug 2024
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<quote.A few little tweaks:

1) your run no longer needs to start at the start point. You can run to it, and continue from it to collect flags, without having to interrupt your run.</quote>

After seeing this in action, I am not sure I like it. If there are 2 course in the area you are running in then you get notifications as if you have tried to do both if you happen to run past a point on the alternative course whilst trying to do the other one.

I could see 2 ways to make this better. Either increase the distance you have to be within to the start point so it's not so difficult to start the course, or not to give a notification on a course unless say at least 5 points are covered. This would also stop spurious notifications for every time I run in my area not intending to be a course and I just happen to run past a few of the course points.

To be honest, I think I'd just go back to having to do the start point of a course to start the course if it was up to me.
Gooner
Gooner
Aug 2024
2:25pm, 23 Aug 2024
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Whereas I like the change and can easily ignore the extra notifications if triggered. It's not like there's a penalty for having inadvertently half attempted a course whilst completing another and it makes it much easier to fit a course into a longer run than the course would be.
chunkywizard
chunkywizard
Aug 2024
2:43pm, 23 Aug 2024
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I can see that, but the notifications annoy me! I really don't want to see a notification when I inadvertently run past 1 or 2 points on a normal run, only when I am making an attempt (hence why only notifying when at least 5 points have been captured would be a work around I wouldn't mind)
GimmeMedals
GimmeMedals
Aug 2024
3:33pm, 23 Aug 2024
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I agree with you, @chunkywizard I like the idea of at least 5 flags being collected for an attempt to register if you don't need to start your Garmin at the start point. I've been getting notifications every time I log the walk to the village shop (which I'm doing to get every km for Walk the Sum purposes) as I pass the start of a local course and collect one flag.
Gooner
Gooner
Aug 2024
3:43pm, 23 Aug 2024
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I have no issues with that tbf, if you're actually doing an attempt so want the notification you should easily hit that many so can't see it having any negatives ...other than work for the Boss.
chunkywizard
chunkywizard
Aug 2024
1:03pm, 24 Aug 2024
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I wonder it Fetch has been tinkering? I got no notifications today despite running past various course points…
Chicken 🐔 Legs
Chicken 🐔 Legs
Aug 2024
7:00pm, 25 Aug 2024
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Looks like Orienteering routes might not be attaching to the original run.
No notifications after completing today.
Saved GPX from Coros, upload manually and the run was accepted.
(In case anyone gets a non-response)
Ness
Ness
Aug 2024
7:20pm, 25 Aug 2024
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Interestingly, I got a notification that you'd attempted a route I'd set up. Hope you got a badge for completion of it.

About This Thread

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I had an idea the other day whilst walking with Katie. A lot of Fetch games rely on randomly-placed markers to encourage you to vary your routes - but what if you could design your own virtual orienteering course? Drop a dozen or so virtual flags on the map, and then you've got a challenge for yourself and anyone else who is passing through the area.

I've built some pages that allow you to construct a course:

fetcheveryone.com/ori

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