Using RouteGadget at Street League events

RouteGadget is usually available to add your routes either on the night of a street league event or very shortly afterwards. It provides a convenient way to comparer your route with others who ran, and gives valuable feedback to the planner.

If you are used to using RouteGadget for "conventional" orienteering events you shouldn't have much trouble with using it for street league events, but there are some subtle differences which could throw you. The instructions below attempt to cover all eventualities.

Street O RouteGadget has to be set up differently because there are no electronic times for visiting controls, so no results file. Anyone wanting to post a route has to either draw it or import a file from their gps device. Instead of a blank map with only your chosen controls showing, we use the same map as you used at the event. This means that all the controls are visible. The "course" set up on RG has only a start and first control, positioned close to the finish.

To add a route manually you must first fill in your name and time in the format hh:mm. The time is just the time you took, e.g. 57:30. It's just so that if someone uses the playback facility the dots move at a speed such that they finish at the time you enter. Choose the course (usually there will be only one course to choose from). Draw the route that you took around the map until you finally reach the finish. You can zoom in and out and pan the map to help. Once complete remember to click the save button.

To add a gps track choose the file that you have previously downloaded from your gps device. If the map has been georeferenced then your track should drop into place. However most street maps aren't georeferenced so you may need to perform some manipulation of your track. You just need to add a couple of "handles" to the trace. Left click to add one in a place on your trace that is obvious on the map, e.g. a prominent corner, then move that handle to where it should be on the map. Click again to lock it (should go red). Then do that again on another point (or 5) and it should come together. Alternatively you can just draw it manually, but usually gps works with a bit of faffing. There are some instructions on this at the bottom of the pane on the left when you click on the "draw" banner.

With thanks to Matt Driver for writing a lot of the above.