Information Technology

The Information Technology Committee of Orienteering Australia enables sharing of information in the IT area between the states. 

Minutes of the committee are available:

ITCommittee Minutes April 10 2009.doc

ITCommittee Minutes March 22 2008.doc

IT Committee Minutes April 2007.doc

IT Committee Minutes April 2006.doc

Other IT News

IT News June 2008.doc

OA Results System Update Aug 2008.doc

SPORTident Information

This page enables sharing of information on SPORTident equipment and associated software.

A comprehensive set of guidelines on the use of SPORTident has been prepared by David Rosen (chair of the IOF Rules Commission) and is available here. 

Event Software

Stephan Kramer Sports Software:

• OE User Guide.pdf - this is designed for use at enter on the day events.
• The ACT User guide is available on their Event Management page at http://act.orienteering.asn.au/event-management/
• Using MT for Australian Three Days.pdf- some notes on using MT 2003 software for the Austrtalian Three Days (Coping with the Prologue, Start Draw, Importing Data).
• Notes on using the Archive Manager are available - ManagingtheArchiveManager2003.pdf
• Details on managing different Timing scenarios - How OE-MT Handles Time Taking.pdf
• Identifying DNS Runners from a Check Station - Identifying DNS Runners.pdf
• Using OS for a 2 person - 4 leg relay - OS Relay Software - 2 by 2 Relay.doc
• Import file for the relay - ENTRIES File - 2 person relay.xls
• Example Event file for a 2 * 2 relay (ZIP) - Example 2 Person Relay
• The following files are examples of imports for the single day event software (OE2003) and the multi-day event software (MT2003) with entries for multiple days.  These are saved as Excel files, but should be renamed to csv files for the import into the event software.
  OE Import File Example.xls
  MT Import File Example.xls
• The following files available for download are event templates for OE software.  Both include all Australian Clubs as in the club file below.  The contents can be unzipped to the OE2003 directory.
  OE 5 Year Age Classes  - this zip file also has 10 year AS and B classes which can be modified as required
  OE 10 Year Age Classes - this zip file has selected AS and B classes

SportIdent UK also provides event software ( Autodownload) which is used extensively in Britain.

Australian Club Archive

A file of official Australian clubs, plus codes for State/Territory teams, Australian and New Zealand National teams, official New Zealand clubs, and nations affiliated with the IOF (including the New Zealand code), is available for download.  This file has the approved format for clubs when using OE/MT/OS software - AustralianClubsNames20100328.xls. To import into Archive Manager, save the XLS file as a CSV file first.

SPORTident equipment

Information on SPORTIdent products can be obtained from:

• The SPORTident site for technical support and product details;
• Distributors of SPORTident equipment such as SPORTident in UK,  USA, and Sweden.