Discussion: Orienteering lottery win

What would orienteering do if it came across a stack of cash?

see the thread: http://www.maptalk.org/forum/topic.cfm?t=23&f=1

I agree with all the ideas you put forward in your Maptalk post.

I've lived various places that have had orienteering, and the funds available to each group have varied significantly. In the place with the most funding, we did do things like hiring people, paying for professional mapmaking, and buying more equipment. It certainly is useful to have such funding, and more funding certainly allowed for more high quality maps, but all the places I've lives have had strong orienteering clubs, some with far less funding than others. (The largest and most dominant club was probably the least well funded, though admittedly by no means poor.) The most important factor seems to be a committed eager base that gets along well. Extra funding is nice, but not the critical factor that launches the rocket. More of a moderate amplification factor for what's already going well. (Oh well, mixed metaphors.)

cheers Jim. Yer, I don't disagree at all, just wondering if you had money...

I think I would buy an enormous amount of sand and create sand dune map out of the mess that Bendigo Mining is making of once excellent orienteering terrain on Diamond Hill. And I think I would invoice them for the expense anyway.
Failing that, an enormous neon sign proclaiming 'Destruction of cultural heritage, natural heritage and orienteering terrain sponsored by Bendigo Mining in the search for non-existent gold to supply trinkets for the world's status conscious nouveau-riche'.

Yes, I'm quite pissed-off!

haha. sounds like you don't need the cash if you can source the invoice address