The Original Urban Orienteering

[DJM]

From a hotel room in Tallinn, top nine Google hits (page titles only) for "urban orienteering" are:

Team Building Activity - teamactivitiesandgames.co.uk‎
British Orienteering Championships 2013
Nopesport Urban Orienteering League
London City Race | Sunday 22 September 2013
The Seven Laws of Urban Orienteering | London City Race
Scottish Orienteering Urban League
Mole Valley Orienteering Club
Southern England Orienteering Urban League
Harlequins Orienteering Club - Home Page

[andypat]

In at Number 6 in Estonia! What a result for the SOUL series!

[madmike]

In at Number 6 in Estonia! What a result for the SOUL series!

but still behind the 7 laws of urban O

[oo_wrong_way]

Geek alert: to get a more realistic search result - one that does not take your location or previous search/browsing activity into account use your browser's "incognito" or "private" browsing mode. Your location may still have a bearing on the results.

For me an incognito search for urban orienteering (no quotes) returns:

1. Nopesport Urban Orienteering League
2. The 7 Laws of Urban Orienteering | Urban Orienteering UK
3. Urban Event - Monday 6th May - British Orienteering (link to the BOF event age for this year's Dorking event)
4. London City Race | Sunday 22 September 2013
5. Images for urban orienteering
6. Orienteering - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
7. Scottish Orienteering Urban League

[denbydale]

[quote="oo_wrong_way"]Geek alert: to get a more realistic search result - one that does not take your location or previous search/browsing activity into account use your browser's "incognito" or "private" browsing mode. Your location may still have a bearing on the results.

Using Bing an incognito search for urban orienteering (no quotes) returns:
1 Nopesport
then
2.GMPTE's Urban Orienteering: The ultimate challenge in a metropolis.
www.goto.org.uk/uo.pdf · PDF file

which I must confess is a new one on me

[oo_wrong_way]

2.GMPTE's Urban Orienteering: The ultimate challenge in a metropolis.
http://www.goto.org.uk/uo.pdf · PDF file

which I must confess is a new one on me

Interesting document. Brings a raft of new opportunities to urban orienteering planners:

The Key Stage 3 Strategy recommends that 6 types of thinking are developed:
• Information Processing
• Reasoning
• Enquiry
• Creativity
• Evaluation
• Metacognition
Here’s how Urban Orienteering can use all of them:
Information processing
• Find the best sources for travel information – timetables, connections, timings, routes, costs
• Collect relevant travel information and facts about the route
• Sort travel information into chronological order - itinerary
Reasoning
• Explain and express opinions about chosen route/means of travel
• Give reasons for planning a particular route or for method of transport
• Make judgements about how to travel and by what means
Enquiry
• Ask questions relating to the challenge
• Anticipate potential problems, plan them out
Creativity
• Draw on previous experience of public transport/local areas to generate new ideas
• Consider innovative solutions e.g. keeping within a budget/only using one other method of transport on top of
walking
Evaluation
• Develop and use own success criteria for the challenge – including skills and understanding
Metacognition
• thinking about thinking – plan, monitor and evaluate own thinking