Mapping 54:07 [1] 3.21 km (16:51 / km) +79m 15:00 / km
After the ISOM discussion this last couple weeks, I decided to drive to one of my old attempts at mapping and see what was up. I have emailed this parked several times over several years, and they just aren't answering.
I found out it had changed hands---it's now owned by Rising Sun, Indiana---and has had some improvements made (a new shelter and several old, dangerous buildings demolished).
I wasn't really mapping with a board, but I was just looking for new stuff. I had my old map, my new OL-Laser contours (OMG), and Jagge's Karttapullautin automatically-generated map (if it had the trails on it, it would be useable. It needs a lot of work, but it's an hour of computing time!)
Oh---a day or two before Saturday, I checked Open Topography, and a new section of Indiana Lidar became available. So---now I've got really, really good contours for this place.
It's called "Denver-Siekman Park". It used to be an educational park with actual people there (for school tours), so the mowing of the trails isn't as good, and several pieces of singletrack have disappeared.
The big trails are actually pretty good. They're maintained for use as a cross-country course for a local high school, so they tend to be grass rather than dirt. (Dirt trails are verboten by high school rules.)
{Edit} GPS has come a long way. This track was from my Forerunner 110. My original Etrex Vista track was almost completely useless. This one seems really good. One spot (a wooded ride in the SE) has the track some distance apart---that's the biggest error I see.