Discussion: Fun!

Sounds like a good day! How was the map? And please send some spring our way. We seem to have skipped spring...and summer and fall and gone back to winter! Or maybe we just never left.

The map was okay. Plenty good enough for a local meet, will need some work for anything bigger. The mapper asked for comments so I'm trying to synthesize something useful to write back. It was a really great day though, and a pleasure to run somewhere new.

You will reach summer eventually! It might just be summer because the rain is warm instead of cold and it's too light to sleep, but you'll get there!

(Actually, my summers spent in Sweden have been way nicer than my summers in the UK. It'll be great, but a little later in arriving than here! Saying that, they're apparently getting 14 inches of snow in Western NY right now! Just raining here.)

Well, no snow yet. We have 3-5 inches in the forecast; much more south and west of us.

It was 82F on Friday; 40s and raining all weekend. Still raining now.

And I'm impressed you found a usable map in RI. First one of those I've ever heard of.

Nice, orienteering in RI. I havenæt managed that yet.

It's pretty dreary in Oslo right now, but I think this is just the warm up for summer. Have to suffer a bit before we get to enjoy the good times.

The map does look pretty nice, actually. I was thinking that maybe your GPS tracks might actually be following the trails in many cases, in which case a slight redrawing of the trails to match might be a possible and quick improvement to the map.

Ross, are we talking about the same map? It does not "look nice". Maybe the terrain is ok, but the map is ugly. Unless the vegetation does come in straight blocks in reality. Not saying it's not a functional, relatively accurate map, but it looks childish and sloppy.

I did in fact mean terrain. I wouldn't have picked up on the sketchiness of the vegetation though, without it being pointed out.

Map looks a bit "Lidar-y" - smoothing/adjusting the contours, to remove some of the jagged-ness, would help cartographically.