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Full User Guide
Routegadget UK is maintained by Simon Errington and serves as the homepage for UK RG2 installations, which includes all UK clubs plus the British Championships, Scottish Orienteering Association, Scottish 6 Days, JK, and a few Mountain Marathons. The site holds a list of RG2 sites that can be useful for finding installations.
RG2 Statistics is updated daily and shows a list of all uploaded events from RG UK sites, as well as the foreign installations of RG2 of which we are aware. This can be very useful for finding recent events all in one place.
Events with a globe icon are geo-referenced - this makes uploading GPS routes easier, as RG2 already knows how to place the track onto the map.
The information icon on an event means the uploading club have left a comment - this can be viewed by hovering over the event link, or (more easily) by opening the event details panel.
Events with a padlock have been locked - this means route uploading is disabled. This is usually done temporarily while the club check that the event has been set-up properly.
The easiest way to add a route to RG2 is to upload a GPS trace of your run. If the event is geo-referenced the trace should line up well with the course - you may wish to perform a small amount of manual editing depending on the accuracy of the map, but the use of the 'autofit' button should not normally be required, and in fact is likely to result in a worse fit.
If the map is not geo-referenced you will have to manually adjust the trace to fit the course. This is done by clicking on parts of the trace to create handles, which are then moved into the correct position and locked by clicking again. Depending on the accuracy of your GPS trace and the map (and how much time you wish to devote to adjusting your trace), it is usually enough to create a handle for each control, though your mileage may vary.
When uploading a GPS trace, the 'Autofit' button can be used to adjust your trace automatically. As mentioned above, this should be avoided on geo-referenced events as it is likely to result in a worse fit. On non-georeferenced maps, 'Autofit' normally does a good job of adjusting your trace to fit the course, but remember that the trace can also be manually adjusted after autofitting - for example, to correct a trace that starts before the start kite.
If you don't have a GPS trace of your run you can draw it in manually by clicking on the map to link up the controls. While drawing, the map can be adjusted by dragging, and zoomed in and out by scrolling. You can also rotate the map by using the buttons in the top right-hand corner. When the 'Align map to next control' box is selected, the map will automatically rotate to have the current leg facing straight up.
The courses tab shows a list of all the courses at an event, with information on how many runners each course had, and how many routes have been uploaded. Checking the left-hand box will display the course on the map, and checking the right hand box will display all routes for that course.
The results tab holds the full breakdown of results for each of the courses. Checking the box in the course header will display the course on the map, whilst clicking the header will open up the results dropdown. If a runner has uploaded a route, a route checkbox will be present next to their name which can be used to display the track on the map. If the event used personal courses (score events, gaffles, butterflies etc.) an additional checkbox will be present to the left of the runner's name that is used to display their personal course.
To add runners to the playback animation, check the right-hand box in the results pane. This will open the animation controls in the bottom right of the screen. If a runner has not uploaded a route, the animation show them following the straight-line between controls.