{"id":1202,"date":"2012-06-30T00:02:24","date_gmt":"2012-06-29T23:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jgeo.nl\/o\/?p=1202"},"modified":"2017-05-01T11:40:44","modified_gmt":"2017-05-01T10:40:44","slug":"oo-games-online-orienteering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jgeo.nl\/o\/2012\/06\/30\/oo-games-online-orienteering\/","title":{"rendered":"oO-games (online-Orienteering)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I planned to add some home-made JavaScript Orienteering games to my blog. Sounds fun to make, and to play. Something with maps, where you have to find the location of a tiny snapshot of the map. And a puzzel, where you have to select the control description icons for a certain spot on the map. And a map where you have to draw what you think is the best route, and afterwards, get a simulated time based on the underlying map colors. Or a jigsaw puzzle of a map. Like this:<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flash-gear.com\/index.php?puz\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.flash-gear.com\/puz1.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<object width=\"750\" height=\"570\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allownetworking\" value=\"all\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/five.flash-gear.com\/npuz\/puz.php?c=f&amp;o=1&amp;id=4124602&amp;k=73478185&amp;s=60&amp;w=600&amp;h=420\" \/><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"scale\" value=\"noscale\" \/><param name=\"salign\" value=\"LT\" \/><param name=\"pluginspage\" value=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\" \/><embed width=\"750\" height=\"570\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/five.flash-gear.com\/npuz\/puz.php?c=f&amp;o=1&amp;id=4124602&amp;k=73478185&amp;s=60&amp;w=600&amp;h=420\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allownetworking=\"all\" quality=\"high\" wmode=\"transparent\" scale=\"noscale\" salign=\"LT\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p><\/center>But first, I decided to look what is already out there. I have bought once Catching Features, which is sort of the <em>complete orienteering experience<\/em> on your PC. A lot of fun when you can&#8217;t go out for some reason. It pretty well resembles the <em>stress<\/em> when orienteering for real. But here appear to be many more tools.<br \/>\nI wish I had an Android smartphone, then I could play Virtual Orienteering, or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.novaspatial.com\/products-services\/mobile\/games\" target=\"_blank\">pCM Orienteering<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But there are other Orienteering computer games as well. Have a look for example at:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Webroute\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.worldofo.com\/webroute\/\" target=\"_blank\">Webroute<\/a>: Here you can draw what you think is the best route, on a map, and compare with others. Seems to be used a lot, but not by many Dutch people.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.richtig-orientieren.de\/icd\/mst\/\" target=\"_blank\">Control Descriptions Quiz<\/a>, where you can exercise your knowledge on control symbols.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortnet.org\/icd\/mst\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Map reading Quiz<\/a>, where you can rehearse with map features.<\/li>\n<li>On <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pejla.se\/ardf_games.htm\" target=\"_blank\">ARDF-games<\/a>, you can play with virtual ARDF receivers, a kind of orienteering where you use radio waves to locate the controls.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/o-training.net\/blog\/2011\/12\/15\/theoretical-o-exercise-follow-the-camera\/\" target=\"_blank\">This one<\/a> is also fun: you have to watch the head-camera video, and locate where you are on the map. Sounds like a fun idea for a Geocache.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/catchingfeatures.com\/b\/skiomapmemory.html\" target=\"_blank\">Memory training<\/a>: this one shows you a map for some seconds, and then you have to run the same route, along many crossings, to get to the end point, by what you remember of the map.<\/li>\n<li>And if you like to play online puzzels, with Orienteering as theme, then <a href=\"https:\/\/techniek.hamok.be\/orientatielopen\/step37.html\" target=\"_blank\">this section<\/a> of the Hamok Orienteering Handbook could be interesting.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But of course, the real game is outside. I found some good sites with training exercises, some of which you can do on your own when there is no nearby race, or no training. For example <a href=\"http:\/\/o-training.net\/w\/Category:Orienteering_exercises\" target=\"_blank\">here, on O-training.net<\/a>, or <a href=\"http:\/\/techniek.hamok.be\/orientatielopen\/step52.html\" target=\"_blank\">this huge list<\/a>, also from the Hamok Handbook.<\/p>\n<p>Although there are not many regional races nearby during the summer season, there seems to be enough to do. So let&#8217;s quit writing my blog, and start playing.<\/p>\n<p>More links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Efortnet%2Eorg%2Ficd%2F&amp;urlhash=NHpO&amp;_t=tracking_disc\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.fortnet.org\/icd\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Efuntrivia%2Ecom%2Ftrivia-quiz%2FSports%2FOrienteering---the-Maps-the-Sport-57551%2Ehtml&amp;urlhash=1a7U&amp;_t=tracking_disc\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.funtrivia.com\/trivia-quiz\/Sports\/Orienteering&#8212;the-Maps-the-Sport-57551.html<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Esporcle%2Ecom%2Fgames%2FSteerpike%2Forienteering-control-descriptions&amp;urlhash=-bkq&amp;_t=tracking_disc\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.sporcle.com\/games\/Steerpike\/orienteering-control-descriptions<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Efortnet%2Eorg%2Ficd%2Fmst%2Findex%2Ehtml&amp;urlhash=INp3&amp;_t=tracking_disc\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.fortnet.org\/icd\/mst\/index.html<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishorienteering.org.uk\/page\/games\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.britishorienteering.org.uk\/page\/games<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.octavian-droobers.org\/index.php\/coaching\/on-line-quizzes\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.octavian-droobers.org\/index.php\/coaching\/on-line-quizzes<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I planned to add some home-made JavaScript Orienteering games to my blog. Sounds fun to make, and to play. Something with maps, where you have to find the location of a tiny snapshot of the map. And a puzzel, where you have to select the control description icons for a certain spot on the map. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jgeo.nl\/o\/2012\/06\/30\/oo-games-online-orienteering\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">oO-games (online-Orienteering)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[29,23,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","category-training","category-website"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jgeo.nl\/o\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jgeo.nl\/o\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jgeo.nl\/o\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jgeo.nl\/o\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jgeo.nl\/o\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1202"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/jgeo.nl\/o\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4294,"href":"https:\/\/jgeo.nl\/o\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202\/revisions\/4294"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jgeo.nl\/o\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jgeo.nl\/o\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jgeo.nl\/o\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jgeo.nl\/o\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}