Discussion: Maps

Did I screw up all the maps or just green?

Orange was wrong too. I think they planned on the old version of the OCAD file. Control number 5 no longer exists on the new file, but it was a very obvious tree when you got there.

Dean had planned on a different map than Jeff. I meshed them all together, and was supposed to make it all work. All the rec courses lost their registration marks somehow though, and I didn't look closely enough at them (On the map, with start and finish seemingly in the right spot).
Annoying to screw something simple like that up.

It was amazing how many of the wrong sites fell on real features actually!

Didn't detract from my enjoyment at all though. It was good to be out, despite the fact that something is clearly still not right.

Some of the controls ("the wrong ones") remind me of what it was like on a course I ran once in former Yugoslavia (1979-80?) where the control description was "In the forest" and the control circle was empty...

There was a distinction in control descriptions for orienteering in England in the 1960 between "a feature" and "the feature". "A feature" meant it was there on the ground, but not on the map (a black and white photocopy of a 1:25,000 Ordnance Survey map of the area), while "the feature" meant it was there on the map as well as on the ground.

Interesting about control #2 -- Next time I'm out there I'll check up on it.. Coming from the northeast (always) I saw a hill and another one in back of it. Is there another pair further to the southeast?

Great work without a compass! Even with one, I had trouble with some of the controls (notably #5) when vetting & hanging them.

(Note to Ed: All the maps were wrong. But no worries -- people enjoyed themselves anyway)

I think it may have been hung on the form line squiggle - it wasn't so much a hill as a lumpy bit. The feature is on the top of the hill, and the flag was down the side - I had to drop back off after going up.

Saying that, I wasn't totally sure at the time, but the QR track seems to suggest that might be the case! With the woods so open, there was certainly no time wasted! Thanks again - I had fun out there!