Orienteering is competed on maps with a scale of 1:10000 or 1:15000 (1 cm on the map is 100-150 meters in the terrain). You would need a laptop sized gps device to be able to use it in competition. It would also take too much time to use it. Elite runners almost never stops during races - not even at the control points.
being pissed off explains nothing. What does the map scale have to do with what device is needed? You can zoom in or out of a map, then rezoom, on any device, such as a cell phone.
If, as you say, the elites almost never stop anyhow, then how is this orienteering? Seems more like a race to some point up to 15k away that isn't hard to find at all.
I think I have discovered orienteering is a fake sport for b-level runners. Bummer, it would have been interesting otherwise
And what you will see in phone? just a point where you are in the middle of the forest. Orienteering maps are a lot more detailed maps that google maps, or another maps from phones.
You receive map with control points after your start, so you can't import it in phone before competition, to be helpful for you
They don't stop because they are reading the map and deciding where to go next while running. When they are running to one control point they already are deciding how they will run to next point, so when they are at the control point, they already have a full plan how to go to the next one.
Go to one competition, especially in Switzerland or Scandinavia, and you will see if it's "fake sport" or no, and you will see how hard is it and how much time you will lose to leaders
Orienteering is competed on maps with a scale of 1:10000 or 1:15000 (1 cm on the map is 100-150 meters in the terrain). You would need a laptop sized gps device to be able to use it in competition. It would also take too much time to use it. Elite runners almost never stops during races - not even at the control points.
being pissed off explains nothing. What does the map scale have to do with what device is needed? You can zoom in or out of a map, then rezoom, on any device, such as a cell phone.
If, as you say, the elites almost never stop anyhow, then how is this orienteering? Seems more like a race to some point up to 15k away that isn't hard to find at all.
I think I have discovered orienteering is a fake sport for b-level runners. Bummer, it would have been interesting otherwise
It's always amusing to hear people babble about something when they don't have a clue.
Did you really think they were using a public google map and were given the course long before the race?
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