Martin Yeo

Across-Devon postbox orienteering

How many of Devon’s postboxes can you visit in the time limit?

• +20 points for each unique postbox you visit.
• -10 point penalty for each minute you are late (1 second over counts as a new minute).
• You choose which postbox to start at, and you must finish at the same postbox.
• Two competitions:
  • 🏃 On foot - 1 hour time limit
  • 🚴 On bicycle - 3 hour time limit

Ideas

• Strive for the highest score (against others or yourself), trying different start locations / routes each time.
• Spice up your routine exercise with a new start location each week.
• Pick an interesting start location / map section and challenge your friends.

Sound good? Let’s go!

1. Browse this map to choose an area you’d like to navigate round for 60 minutes.
2. Print a map of your chosen area, including the postboxes, using OpenOrienteeringMap (a guide is below).
3. Open the course on your phone, using the MapRun app:
   • Select Event > UK > Devon > Devon Postboxes ON FOOT
   • Select Event > UK > Devon > Devon Postboxes ON BICYCLE
   • Ignore the start location you see when you press Go to Start - you can start at any postbox you like!

Printing your map from OpenOrienteeringMap

NOTE: the course is made from all postboxes on OpenStreetMap on 27/11/2022. There might be small differences with OpenOrienteeringMap.

1. Visit OpenOrienteeringMap UK.
2. Select the centre point for your printed map by clicking a point on the displayed map.
3. Select your desired scale and paper settings in the top menu.
4. You can re-centre the map if you need:
   1. Click the existing centre point until it displays as green.
   2. Click-and-drag the green point to the new centre location.
   3. Clicking elsewhere on the map with deactivate this mode (point goes blue).
5. Click the Postboxes button in the top menu. Your map should now be populated with all the postbox sites within its boundaries.
6. Check the controls against the original map, as there can be extras/duplicates in OpenOrienteeringMap. Duplicates can be deleted in the ‘control description’ section on the right.
7. OPTIONAL: Edit the details in the ‘control description’ section on the right (the auto-generated scores have no significance).
8. Click Save & get PDF map in the top-right.
9. Print the PDF.

How to create your own version