Training Log Archive: Spike

Biked on the bike path including a visit to the Baker Wetlands. There were a number of people with bikes at the parking lot there. It turns out that it was the start of a Wednesday Bikes and Beers ride. Who knew?

It felt nice to get out and move around a bit. It was hot, but not too terrible. I think it'll be worse the next few days.

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I made a pseudo orienteering map in just a few minutes this evening.

Fritz is putting together a map for the Topeka as-the-crow-flies run. He put something together from Open Street Map and it looks really good. But, he wondered about contours. I had an idea for how to make something really quickly, so I tried. Here's what I did:

1. Download the OSM data for part of Topeka
2. Download 1 arc second DEMs from the national map viewer
3. Used Global Mapper (the old version that I've got) to get the data as UTM and generate 5 meter contours as Shapefiles. I'm guessing this could also be done with QGIS.
4. Open the OSM data in Open Orienteering Mapper and use the OSM -> ISOM2017 CRT file to change to orienteering symbols.
5. Import the 5 meter contours and "convert to curves"

It worked pretty well and took only about 10 minutes.