Also see Mapper FAQs and Meet Director FAQs

This page is maintained by go-orienteering.com, who has no legal or official connection with USOF or the O-Net. If you have any comments or complaints talk to me, Gale, at gale@go-orienteering.com . Last revised June 30, 2002.

1. The O-net has moved to groups.yahoo.com .
   
   
2. What should not be posted to the O-Net? Your postings (e-mail messages) should not have HTML, pictures, or any attachments. This includes Vcards. The reason for this is that currently the O-Net administrator sends e-mail versions of the O-net to some 450 or so people and his current software leaves in the MIME formatting dialog and the HTML source code. This turns your message from one that is short and easy to read into one that is much longer and the source code makes reading it a royal pain. Signature files are OK because the signature is after the message and can easily be skipped past, if they get too long you may get complaints anyway. The newsgroup subscribers generally (over 90%) can read your postings with no problems and you may think your postings are OK because you can read them, but many others can not. Foreign languages should be converted to English. This can be done using a translation program like babelfish.altavista.digital.com/ . This can also be used to translate many foreign language messages into English.
   
   
3. How do I find an orienteering meet? Local  meets are usually posted at the local clubs web site. To get a list of local US & Canadian clubs go to www.us.orienteering.org/ the official USOF web site where they have a click-able map - click on the Canadian flag for Canadian clubs. Local events in other countries can be found by going to the IOF web site, then find the national federation, then find the local club or try a link site (see FAQ #2).
   
   
4. National ranking events (badge or A-meets) are usually listed at the national federations web site.  US are listed at ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/tehollow/ or for just the current month at www.us.orienteering.org/calendar/index.html .
   
   
5. National federations can be found at the IOF web site www.orienteering.org/iofadd.htm . Local clubs are usually listed by their national federation. Events can be found by going to the local club or for major events use the search engine at www.us.orienteering.org/iofcal.html these are usually ranking or "badge" events.
   
   
6. Rogaines (extra long events, often including 24 hour courses) are listed at florawww.eeb.uconn.edu/rogaine/calendar.htm .
    
7. How do I find a specific Orienteering web site. Try a link site. Jan Kochbach's site is a good starting point -  www.fi.uib.no/~jankoc/orientering/orientering.html
   ShUOC's Global Orienteering Links Page  -  www.shef.ac.uk/~shuoc/links.html
   DÜDANG'S homepage- my.tripod.com/~Dudang/index.html clubs by country
    
8. What equipment and clothing do I need to orienteer? A compass and a whistle are the only equipment needed. The compass can be an inexpensive $8 model. The whistle is in case of emergency only. Long pants and long-sleeved shirts are usually recommended. Shoes suitable for hiking should be worn. Visit go-orienteering.com or select from the list of suppliers at the USOF web site www.us.orienteering.org/commercial/ for optional supplies and books.
   
   
9. Interested in teaching Orienteering? Jim Huggins suggests you try these web sites: Go to www.us.orienteering.org for a complete list of O Clubs with some good links (and people who may help you). Go to www.williams.edu/Biology/orienteering/map.html for some info on maps. In fact, the entire site www.williams.edu/Biology/orienteering/o~index.html has good stuff on it. www.williams.edu/Biology/orienteering/legend.html has all the map symbols you will ever need, seems to me. Go to www.softdisk.com/customer/jimh/tng_tip.htm for some ideas on how to make you a display map along with identical individual maps, (a good idea to have them all the same), as well as using a sand box to explain contours.