Virtual Orienteering
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Jul 2024
9:27pm, 31 Jul 2024
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Jen HB
Err- @♪♫ Synge ♪♫ this looks slightly odd: Teign Estuary circuit by ♪♫ Synge ♪♫ 11 5630.9km I'm guessing there is a rogue flag somewhere... |
Jul 2024
9:45pm, 31 Jul 2024
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fetcheveryone
No permanent link at the moment, but I’ll sort that out.
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Jul 2024
11:01pm, 31 Jul 2024
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Juuphy
Jen HB wrote: Err- @♪♫ Synge ♪♫ this looks slightly odd: Teign Estuary circuit by ♪♫ Synge ♪♫ 11 5630.9km I'm guessing there is a rogue flag somewhere... The start flag is at 0.00,0.00 on the equator off the coast of Africa. |
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Aug 2024
7:31am, 1 Aug 2024
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fetcheveryone
@♪♫ Synge ♪♫ if you want to let me know the lat/lng of a good start point, I can adjust that for you.
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Aug 2024
8:45am, 1 Aug 2024
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♪♫ Synge ♪♫
fetcheveryone wrote: @♪♫ Synge ♪♫ if you want to let me know the lat/lng of a good start point, I can adjust that for you. Ah! Thanks, all. I couldn’t work out why I couldn’t see the differently-coloured start flag while I was laying out the route! I realised when the map opened that it had placed me at the dreaded 0,0 location, but didn’t realise that the course had also decided to start there! Fetch, if you could make the start and finish where the “Teignmouth Pier” flag(s) is/are, that’d be great! 😀 I’ll try another one later. |
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Aug 2024
9:03am, 1 Aug 2024
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♪♫ Synge ♪♫
Looking at the other courses, I may have missed the point of this. I think my course is far too long.
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Aug 2024
10:04am, 1 Aug 2024
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fetcheveryone
If you prefer, I could withdraw that one @♪♫ Synge ♪♫ ?
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Aug 2024
1:03pm, 1 Aug 2024
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fetcheveryone
I've moved the start flag to Teignmouth Pier, and removed the two flags that were on the pier - the figures look a bit more achievable now  I'll put something in place to stop courses being created with no start point; and maybe something that requires flags to be a minimum distance apart. I also liked the comment on my blog about some sort of scoring system that gave extra rewards for flags that were far away. |
Aug 2024
1:30pm, 1 Aug 2024
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Funky Chicken
When I plotted mine, I based it on man-made features I knew were there, but also took a look at the orienteering map for the area, to see what that looked like - a lot more geographic features, like cliffs, copses and gullies, with occasional path junctions and crossings. I could have perhaps added a few of those in too, but thought that might increase the difficulty a bit too much so stuck with more identifiable physical objects. When the courses are made available for other Fetchies to try, maybe an option for feedback, with a difficulty rating, might come in handy? |
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Aug 2024
3:27pm, 1 Aug 2024
30,910 posts
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fetcheveryone
A feedback option sounds good. Some updates: I've amended the first course creation page, so that if you try to create a course with no name, or forget to make a start point, it'll let you know. The code that processes your training entries against all available courses is now in place - so you are welcome to go out and try running/walking/biking/swimming your courses. I'm still working on the code that will *display* your efforts, but I hope to get the basics in place pretty soon. The more I think about it, the more stats and mini-challenges I reckon we can get out of this
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