British Orienteering website

[johnloguk]

Yes AWK, it's doing the same to me now, although it was working fine earlier today.

[SIman]

Yes AWK, it's doing the same to me now, although it was working fine earlier today.

It seems to work now if you put in both club and association. Sure they will get it back as it was.

[awk]

To emphasise what others have been saying about speed of the office's response: I sent some info to BOF for the club profile on Thursday evening. The website had been updated before I returned home from work on Friday evening. Excellent!

[pyrat]

Looks like the news rss has died. I had a brief look but couldnt find a new one. Anyone else found a news rss feed?

[Paul Frost]

On the subject of RSS newsfeeds, where is the Nope Forum one?

[pyrat]

Dead for the time being. If somebody wants to write one for the new forum software (phpbb3) then please do so. There is a plugin currently available which has just been developed but that cant handle the size of the DB.

So code on a postcard to me if you want it.

[mikecumpstey]

The old ranking system has not been changed and is still available at http://ccgi.orienteering.plus.com/rankings
The new BO website has a ranking list page which is an edited out-of-date copy of the full list from the above.
If you want to see the up-to-date rankings or use any of the facilities you need to visit the old site.
-- Mike

[Copepod]

I emailed (the suggested address) to ask if Wandlebury POC was included, as I couldn't locate the POC page. Later I found the POC page, and thre are no POCs listed for Cambridgeshire. No reply to the email I sent, either.

[RS]

Can't edit membership details, emailed BOF about it last week but no reply so far.

[Angry Haggis]

distracted wrote:
At least this is a step in the right direction and Joe Bloggs could now, relatively easily, find their local club.


except that the map isn't clickable, and there isn't a "Go" button for the dropdown list for the regional association, so Joe Bloggs either has to follow the links to the Regional Associations sites and get club names from there, or select a regional association from the dropdown list, and then put the cursor in the (empty) Clubname/abbreviation box, then hit Return. At least TD4 on website navigation...

and the "there are no active clubs in this county" is just plain stupid

My Map of Orienteering Maps has a "What are my nearest clubs?" section, based simply on which clubs have produced maps nearest to your postcode - see here. The quality of the data isn't great, but I'm just copying it from the BOF database.

Any comments/bug reports you have are welcome.

[greywolf]

My Map of Orienteering Maps has a "What are my nearest clubs?" section, based simply on which clubs have produced maps nearest to your postcode - see here. The quality of the data isn't great, but I'm just copying it from the BOF database. Any comments/bug reports you have are welcome.

Yes, it's potentially a really useful tool, though the data needs tiding up a lot: too many duplicates and mis-placements - I tried it a while ago and it gave GRAMP as my nearest club, based on an *interesting* location for Scolty, not sure about the TD, but certainly no dogs in the car park...

[Gross]

Interesting to see that there is no mention of the World Cup finals results etc on the new BOF website. No matter how good the mechanics of the site.... if it doesn't get fed information it won't appear!

[Angry Haggis]

My Map of Orienteering Maps has a "What are my nearest clubs?" section, based simply on which clubs have produced maps nearest to your postcode - see here. The quality of the data isn't great, but I'm just copying it from the BOF database. Any comments/bug reports you have are welcome.

Yes, it's potentially a really useful tool, though the data needs tiding up a lot: too many duplicates and mis-placements - I tried it a while ago and it gave GRAMP as my nearest club, based on an *interesting* location for Scolty, not sure about the TD, but certainly no dogs in the car park...

I've added in an "Alert" button beside each map listing now - if you come across an incorrectly located map, you can click it and it will let me know the map is in the wrong place. I'll then fix it if I can.

[AndyO]

Wow, Scolty is a challenge - even more so than Baluain and Banvie Woods, and nothing to do with global warming! The problem seems to be with the BOF map database, as it lists Scolty as map ref NJ687948 while the Gramp website says NO692949. GPS would help...

BTW, AH - alert notified for B&B Woods

[Angry Haggis]

Wow, Scolty is a challenge - even more so than Baluain and Banvie Woods, and nothing to do with global warming! The problem seems to be with the BOF map database, as it lists Scolty as map ref NJ687948 while the Gramp website says NO692949. GPS would help...

BTW, AH - alert notified for B&B Woods

Thanks, now fixed - Baluain and Scolty are no longer aqueous maps.

Yan Kocbach's excellent World of O Maps also uses the BOF map database, his map graphically shows there are quite a few submerged orienteering maps out there.