About RouteGadget
Described as a "Web utility for drawing and comparing orienteering routes".
It enables competitors to draw and compare their routes. RouteGadget not only shows the routes, but when linked with e-punch results, it allows the race to be replayed, even simulating a mass start. You will actually see little squares run across the map.
It really adds another dimension to post-race analysis.
RouteGadget
The Original Mountain Marathon
If you haven't used RouteGadget before there is a Help button at the top right of the map pages or read the full help section, if you still have a question contact me with the day & course and your problem.
Due to the structure of the event data RouteGadget has only picked up the first competitors name for the listings.
Score coursesNote that the score courses work differently to the others, as there is no defined course, only the start & finish are plotted by RG, you just draw your line through all the controls you visited. This method allows the points value to be displayed and may help explain certain route choices. Info about the animation option.
Course list
Score animations
I set up the score RG for the OMM to just have the start and finish as a course, this makes it easier to compare routes without lots of confusing course lines on screen. Look at the RouteGadget for the Capricorn and select several competitors to see the problem.
This way also allows the control number and points value to show, this might explain some route choices. I used data that had the full splits in so you could see them in the window (top right) and compare if relevant.
The problem is that RG thinks there is only one control (the finish) so expects only one split time in the data file, so uses the first one it comes to, in this case it is the time to the first control. It then uses this to calculate the time/speed over the length of the course drawn.
I could remove all the other splits, but, the length of time makes the animation run very slowly, so I could divide the time by 10 to speed it up, but then the time shown in the window would be rubbish. Given that the time taken on a score is almost the same for everyone and with the course variations the animation is less valuable as a comparison, I am inclined to leave it as is.