Control Descriptions in advance?

[Adventure Racer]

Yes please to tables of descriptions at enquiries / start - something I've suggested to our event organisors before now. Of course that still relies on people understanding the format of the descritptions, but that is something you pick up through use, so only really an issue for the first couple of runs, and normally you can find somebody to help - the bigger issue is that some of the translation between pictorial descriptions and map symbols isn't always intuitive (that and you've normally got some context to help with map symbols if you don't know them).

[awk]

Just as said in my previous post !!

Sorry, Tatty, missed that. Nice to know that someone agrees (or that I agree with someone!).

[seabird]

Yes please to tables of descriptions at enquiries / start - something I've suggested to our event organisors before now.

I'd very much like to try all pictorial descriptions at our next (imminent) District Event. But where can you get a list that is compact enough? The IOF Control Descriptions runs to 17 pages (Only 6 of which can really be eliminated.) Too large for reasonable display and containing too much information which won't be needed.

Seems to me the best solution is to have a large text description of each course on display near registration.

However it would be far more advantageous to have the same information which could be moved from one event to another. Any ideas?

[Guest]

use condes or ocad & plan a course using only the descriptions you want to display... then print out descriptions only

[Ed]

there used to be available a double-sided A4 publication of all pictorial descs with text translations - not sure who published it, Harveys maybe. Try asking CompassPoint or Ultrasport if they've got one (and if its updated to the 2004 version)

[PorkyFatBoy]

They can be downloaded from http://www.orienteering.org. Go to Publications, Rules and Guidelines, Foot-O rules, Pictorial Control Symbols (2004 edition)

[seabird]

They can be downloaded from http://www.orienteering.org. Go to Publications, Rules and Guidelines, Foot-O rules, Pictorial Control Symbols (2004 edition)

Yes. All 17 pages of them!

[RJ]

Now who has a bit of time over the festive season to prepare a two page synopsis of those 17 pages with enough detail. Prepare a pdf file and make available for organisers to publish at events. Go on.... I dare someone do it!!!!!!

[Paul T]

We did just that for our juniors in a low-tech way with scissors, glue and a photocopier. It wasn't neat or comprehensive but told them most of what they needed to know and only took 30 minutes.

If I could work out how to include images in this reply, then I would scan it.

[ruthl]

I'd like to know the same thing, Adventure Racer where did you get a list of description translations to learn from. The IOF list is just too cumbersome. Here's hoping someone will take up the challenge and produce a list or even find and scan a copy of the old list which was excellent.
And loose description sheets are a necessity if at all feasible - at the start so we can't check how many common controls we have towards the finish.

[mikey]

Now who has a bit of time over the festive season to prepare a two page synopsis of those 17 pages with enough detail. Prepare a pdf file and make available for organisers to publish at events. Go on.... I dare someone do it!!!!!!

Was I drunk this morning? I could have sworn Simon E had posted a link to just such a work??

[rocky]

http://www.nopesport.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5274

he did, in a new thread.

[mharky]

there used to be a few control description games lurking around the internet, they might still be there

[Adventure Racer]

As always I used google. "orienteering control descriptions" produced an interactive "game" as the first hit, and a link to the full 17 page document which I printed out is there somewhere too. Obviously the 2 page summary is a lot easier.

[seabird]

http://www.nopesport.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5274

he did, in a new thread.

Brilliant Simon!

We will deploy it at Esholt on January 8th.