We've Been Away

Our apologies to regular users of the Melbourne Street Orienteering Web Site - we've been away for 2 weeks - tramping through the Fiordlands in South-Western New Zealand and were unable to put an alternate service in place before departure. It's interesting to note that this is the longest outage in more than 10 years of online service to the street-orienteering community. We'll patch things up in the next few days and return to normal service this week.

Ray's Rankings - now available for March 2010

Thanks again to Ray Howe for updated rankings - press here to see how you fared. 

Controversy Rocks the Northern Series

For those of you that ran in the heat and the hills earlier in the week, the Thursday event at Greensborough managed to fix one out of two. The conditions were perfect for running - cool, clear conditions - as we ran along the creek and through the parks on this well set event, we realised that few events get much better than this. There were, however, several upsets in the results - causing at least one long-standing orienteer to reconsider his tenure in the sport. For full details, see the Event Report at http://street.orienteering.com.au/2010/Thursday/NSS/Summer2/

Park-Street Millennium Club

 Many of you may have enquired about the Millennium Club - a VOA sponsored initiative that recognises longer-term participation in our sport. Organised by Ray Howe, this award system provides recognition for street-orienteers that have done more than 500 events since 1st January 2000.  Several classes of membership are currently on offer - see http://www.vicorienteering.asn.au/parkstreet/millennium/ for more information.

Legend Member : Participates in 1000 Street-O events since the start of this millennium (1^st January, 2000) and will be regarded as a full member of The Millennium Club. Legend members will be presented with a special TMC cloth badge(1000), a special TMC(Legend) key-ring and a Certificate of Recognition. Legend members will be identified with a number which represents the chronological order in which they have qualified for The Millennium Club.  Companion Member: Participates in 750 Street-O events since the start of this millennium (1^st January, 2000) and will be regarded as a provisional member of The Millennium Club. Companion members will be acknowledged with a special TMC cloth badge(750). Associate member: Participates in 500 Street-O events since the start of this millennium (1^st January, 2000) and will be regarded as a provisional member of The Millennium Club. Associate members will be acknowledged with a special TMC cloth badge(500).

OCAD Mapping Tips and Hints

We recently added two articles to the OCAD pages associated with our site -

Adjusting the Map Scale in OCAD 8 - will be of interest to those of you that draw maps and set courses. Very few of our maps are set up correctly - in most cases course setters experiment to find out what seemingly random value they have to key in to get the paper copy of the map to come out at 1:10,000. This brief tutorial explains how OCAD map scales work and provides a few steps to adjust the internal scale so that your map prints correctly.

Using Part of an OCAD Map - will be of interest to course setters that want to use part of a larger map. Cutting out just the portion of interest allows one to size the map to fit the page thereby making the map all the clearer.