Training Log Archive: Jagge

Easy jogging, I could use my normal gait - first time since knee injury at Jukola.

night control test, Jäkel map.

About the ongoing map scale discussion.

Here is clips from ISOM 2000:

"due to limitations in printing technology the final map symbol dimensions may vary up to +/- 5%."

Boulders, boulder fields: "it is permitted to enlarge this symbol by 20%".

Boulder cluster: "it is permitted to enlarge this symbol by 25%".

Contours: "Absolute height accuracy is of less importance. It is permissible to alter the height of a contour slightly if this will improve the representation of a feature. This deviation should not exceed 25%of the contour interval"

So, we area allowed to vary the size/scale of lots of stuff by about 10..25%. How would it work if simply add the map itself to the list of allowed to enlarge. Like this:

Map scale for long is 15 000 and for middle 10 000. Due to terrain character and limitations in printing technology the final map scale may vary 20%, for long 12500 to 15000 and for middle 7500 to 10 000.

Would it all soon end up with unreadable maps with scales 7500 and 12500, maps full of details? Or would it end happily, maps becoming more legible, mappers doing mapping as they do today, course planners getting room for common sense after seeing how our printers actually behave, O community still claiming maps scale for long is 15 000 and for middle 10 000 being just enlarged 15 000 map and leaving us old ISOM purist farts happy?

Mapper can't know in advance how the map will look like - one usually don't know the printer one will be use or will it be offset map. Fine tuning legibility by editing/re-mapping/redrawing map is much more expensive than changing scale a little bit.

And. splitting hairs here - paper shrinks. I am sure 15 000 map is usually not exactly 15 000, it may vary 0.001 % or something. So scale is variable already.

Event: Yökuppi 12 Asikkala Majuanmäki
 

Map needs a name. Something cool, like Swampfox's map "Plutonic pleasures". I am usually not good at this, but I think I have a good candidate. "Yökyöpelin jäkäläyllätys". Describes the area well, cool and easy to pronounce and remember - for international runners too I guess. What do you think, would it do?

C • Easy... 13

One hour of head lamp mapping, bare rocks :


It was kind of strange you actually could do mapping in the dark. GPS cursor was spot on all the time, cliffs and stones were just where they should, just draw grey color every time you felt like seeing something greyish on the ground - bare rock mapping, Finnish style :)

C • I like grey on the map. :) 9

C • That is the way 3

I wonder why we should use standard "long" tags or no tags. What wrong with these short ones?