okansas.blogspot.com Occassional thoughts about orienteering
Sunday, March 23, 2008
Computerized route choice
Check out the route choices on this course:
The routes were picked by computer software. Cool. The software to pick O' routes was a project by a guy named Oskar who was, at the time, a student at Stockholm University. Oskar wrote about it (in English!) and you can read about it here.
I think of this particular map as my home terrain. I lived at "Lappis" - the housing area near the fourth control - for about 3 years. I spent plenty of hours training on this map.