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Virtual Orienteering

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fetcheveryone
fetcheveryone
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Also... I've made the whole thing opt-in - but I've opted in everyone who has made a course. If you want to see your times against the courses, you need to click the button labelled 'Join the Game' (it'll be labelled 'Leave the Game' if you're already signed up).
geordiegirl
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Exciting! Might have to do one of mine tomorrow!
fetcheveryone
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If for some reason the matching doesn't work, don't panic. Whilst we're still in the testing phase, I am happy to stick any failed runs back into the game queue once I've worked out what went wrong :-) But it worked out ok with my test course (which I designed to roughly correspond to the run I did earlier).
fetcheveryone
fetcheveryone
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I've added a very basic table of attempts - you can see it here on my test course:

fetcheveryone.com/ori-course.php?id=52

Obvious additions during my next coding session:

1) dates of attempts
2) sift by run/bike/walk
3) leaderboard ordering based on column headings
4) stats on a per-flag basis e.g. shortest distance/time to collect, most collected
5) overlay routes on map
6) notifications when you've done a course
7) badges
8) layout / mobile friendly / usability tweaks
9) editing policy e.g. renaming points, but also... what happens if a point is/becomes inaccessible? What happens to existing records?
10) overlay when plotting routes

Shout out if you have any suggestions :-)
fetcheveryone
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11) update game guide
12) make available in menus
Jen HB
Jen HB
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Question: if I do a course as part as a longer session will it just extract the part 'between the start/finish marker
This then made me think of another question - what if the optimum route (or the route I pick)goes through the start/finish but I'm not dobbing out?
fetcheveryone
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You have to start at the start, it doesn’t check all runs.
CumbriAndy
CumbriAndy
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fetcheveryone wrote:You have to start at the start.


And finish at the finish?
fetcheveryone
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Under the current way of things, you don’t need to get back to the start/finish flag, you just need to grab as many as you can.
geordiegirl
geordiegirl
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5:48pm, 1 Aug 2024
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Darn it the one of my maps I did I had forgot to create map so start point is totally wrong (for me at least 🤣) I’ll redo it.

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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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