On 25 Jun 2018, at 16:43, David Mawdsley <mawdsleyd@gmail.com> wrote:

It's not actually a family activity day in as the website suggests -  the only thing is the orienteering so I think your wording should be changed to reflect this.

Do you think that you should give a little bit more of an explanation as to what you mean by virtual controls I think that for those not particularly techie they would find it hard to understand

Would it be a good idea to make a bit more of the parkrun to make make it clear that running that first and then the score event makes the trip to Macclesfield worthwhile?

Dave

On Sun, 24 Jun 2018, 18:07 Peter, <peter.ross1@btinternet.com> wrote:

Dave

This is what I would like to send to simplelists.

Macclesfield South Park 

There is a family activity day on Saturday June 30th at Macclesfield Park.

MDOC will have a stall and one of the attractions will be an Orienteering Score Event using virtual controls.

It will be 15 minute sprint so don’t forget the usual Saturday Park Run that starts at 9.00am if you want two events for the price of none. It's all free!

Here’s the link to the MDOC site https://www.mdoc.org.uk/events/spark-orienteering-south-park-macclesfield-30-jun-2018

Here’s some stuff on MapRun - the Virtual Orienteer’s first choice App.

Let me (p.ross1@btinternet.com) know if you want a paper map & control descriptions

regards

Peter

On 24 Jun 2018, at 10:47, David Mawdsley <mawdsleyd@gmail.com> wrote:

Peter,

Thanks, got it

I wasn't getting the same screen previously - don't know why

Dave

On 24 June 2018 at 10:29, Peter <peter.ross1@btinternet.com> wrote:

Dave

Try this….

Go to the event.

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Then use the drop down “Choose class/course” and choose Course1 (1). Your name will appear.

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Then highlight your name and use the blue “View routes” button

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Good luck

Peter

On 23 Jun 2018, at 22:04, David Mawdsley <mawdsleyd@gmail.com> wrote:

Peter,

I've failed to see the route

It takes me to routegadget. then choose course and name.

Click on "gps upload" but where is the file to upload??

Dave

On 22 June 2018 at 17:09, Peter <peter.ross1@btinternet.com> wrote:

Dave

I found your route - eventually.

It is at http://maprunners.weebly.com/results.html and then Runners Routes

And this takes you to RouteGadget. (The map you can see is a Purple Pen version that the App people provide).

It looks like that I put control 123 in quite the wrong place. Ooops. Sorry.

Peter

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On 22 Jun 2018, at 14:59, David Mawdsley <mawdsleyd@gmail.com> wrote:

Peter,

Yes. I had found the results OK. I wasn't able to get the gps file of the track. There didn't seem to be anything to say where It is?

Will you send a simplelists message? If anyone has any questions you'll be best placed to help

Dave

On 22 June 2018 at 13:47, BT <peter.ross1@btinternet.com> wrote:

Dave

Really glad you liked it. I think that you will be able to find your results here. 

http://maprunners.weebly.com/results.html

I’ll phone you for advice over what to do next. I like your idea of a 12 minute score. It sounds good and racy.

In theory all we need to provide to simplelists are the instructions on how to download the App and the Event. (They would probably also like to know what type of event it will be.) We could hand out the PIN and the paper maps on the day. 

Regards 

On 22 Jun 2018, at 12:08, David Mawdsley <mawdsleyd@gmail.com> wrote:

Peter,

I've been out to South Park this morning and used Maprun. Excellent!

Comments

I took a paper map and think using the map on the phone would have been difficult. The circles were big and overlapped and on a bright sunny day it's hard to see on a phone

I think a potential difficulty with using it in anger is that the system works when you are quite a distance from the control - probably up to 10m. I can see this would be a problem - say being able to pick up the control when at the top of a crag rather than at the bottom

I successfully uploaded the file and then accessed the server to see the result but wasn't able to plot the track. I  don't know where the GPS file comes from?

My results showed a missing control but I was pretty certain that it did register

I walked around in 35 minutes so if we were going to try it as a score event you possibly need a maximum time of something like 12 minutes - unless you want people to get all the controls. I did 2.3km

Do you think it would be a good idea to send out a simplelists message attaching all the files you sent to me and inviting members to come and have a go with it a week tomorrow?

All in all a real success-  well done!

Dave

On Wed, 20 Jun 2018, 22:23 Peter, <peter.ross1@btinternet.com> wrote:

Dave

I have set up a score event using all your potential control sites, with the start and finish locations you gave me.

Here is a guide on how to access it, and have a run.




Here are the files I used. You can drop them onto Google Earth Pro…