Virtual Orienteering Courses VOC – MapRun

MapRun Smartphone app

As part of the Find Your Way Project, SELOC have created introductory MapRun courses of varying lengths throughout Greater Manchester. The full list and access to maps can be found here www.findyourwayvo.org.uk as well as information about downloading and setting up the MapRun app.

To access the routes on the MapRun app:

Select an event – UK – ALL Find Your Way – Manchester North then look for the borough

OR

Events near me

MapRun is an app which allows you to use your smartphone to enjoy orienteering without needing to have physical control points set up on the ground. There are now MapRun courses set up all across the UK which you can go and run right now, with more new ones being added all the time.

Using MapRun, you can complete an orienteering course using either the map on your phone screen or a paper version; the only difference from a “traditional” course is that there are no physical markers on the ground. Instead, the phone tracks your location as you go and vibrates or buzzes to confirm when you’ve reached each control point on the course.

The MapRun website has a lot of information about MapRun, how to set it up on your phone. Some Garmin watches allow the APP to be installed as a widget.

Below is a list of SELOC older events available in MapRun.

Below is a list of SELOC events available in MapRun. These can be found in the app under UK->Manchester->SELOC. Click on the address for a link to Google Maps, and the download links for maps and event specific information. There is also a link to the latest results for each event. We hope to add more events to this list soon. If you are keen to put on an event of your own (it’s really quite easy) then please get in touch.

Area	Type	Start/Finish	Courses	Downloads	Results
Ramsbottom	Street O	Hare and Hounds, Holcombe Brook, BL0 9RY	75 minute Score	Map & Info	Results
Queen’s Park, Heywood	Park	Queen’s Park Rd, Rochdale, Heywood OL10 4UY	Linear	Info Map	Results
Worsley Woods	Woodland	Greenleach Lane, Worsley, M28 2QW	Linear – Light Green Orange Yellow	Info Light Green Orange Yellow	Light Green Orange Yellow
Longford Park	Park	Ryebank Road, Stretford, Manchester, M21 9LF	Short Linear Long Linear	Long Short
Blackleach Country Park	Woodland	John St, Walkden, Worsley, Walkden M28 3TD	Yellow Orange Light Green	Yellow Orange Light Green

Permanent Orienteering Courses POC

These courses have fixed marker posts in place. Your challenge is to discover checkpoints in the form of posts or plaques, in forests, heathlands, parks and green spaces.

For those new to orienteering there is an Orienteering Foundation video Permanent Orienteering Courses – Discover an Outdoor Adventure to give you an idea of what to expect.

To find out more about the POC courses around Greater Manchester visit www.gmoa.org.uk

There is also lots more detailed information on the MapRun website here.