English interface. Calculations and rules are identical to the German edition, which remains authoritative. Deutsche Fassung
1 — How Sportcatching works
Safety
2 — Spots
A spot is a place in public space with challenges: a running lap, an outdoor fitness park, a staircase. Take the location from the phone or enter coordinates.
3 — Find a spot and check in
Choose »search« at a spot. The phone shows distance and direction; within the radius you can check in.
Situation from Gelaendewerk
Gelaendewerk (gelaendewerk.eu) compiles hints on avalanches, weather, gauges and bathing waters from open data and writes them as a situation file (tw.lage/1). This tool reads the file only in this window and shows the hints for all spots within the radius of a place in the file. The hints do not replace official warnings, the avalanche bulletin or judgement on site.
4 — Challenge
5 — Leaderboard
Like on a pinball machine: the top ten per challenge and spot. at the spot means: checked in at the spot with location when the entry was made.
6 — Chaser run
Live with location
7 — Movement games
Games without scoring for children's gymnastics, youth groups, running groups and seniors' sport; spots work as stations.
8 — Save, load, merge
The file contains spots (title, type, coordinates, radius, hint) and the leaderboard with initials. No tracks, no names. When loading, spots and entries are merged with the existing ones — this is how a group's leaderboard is created.
A saved route list from the route finder can also be loaded: running tracks and hiking trails up to T2 become spots at the start of the route (otherwise at the centre) with suitable challenges. Cycling, mountain-bike, alpine, climbing and water routes are not taken over — there is no leaderboard there.