I think I have rather good eye sight, and I had to stop several times to see is that black dot a cliff or a stone. Otherwise I'd give the map a solid 9 / 10.
I'd give 5/10. The worst map this season so far, with large margin.
Did you find it that way while running or afterwards ;)
Saturday two minutes before the start when I saw the map. But I had doubts before the race, expected something like that. I did write quite harsh feedback to them already after the 2012 event. The challenge in orienteering should not be seeing the map, it should be intrepreting and adjusting your mind on the fly to what's not mapped and what is mapped and how. And mapping standard with minimum symbol sizes and minimum gaps determines the ball park that generalization and your mind adustments is supposed to be about. Here they gave a damn to it all, again.
Note, I have good sight and I partly did well here because my vision is most likely better than my rival's vision or at least as equally good. Saw some H40 guys running with loop, with 1:10 map.
I know some less experienced orienteer'a think maps like these area difficult and challenging, but that's not the way it is. The challenge is seeing and these maps rewards less skilled orinteers who don't have skills to make solid runs with more generalized properly mapped maps. And that's just sad.
Well for me the mentioned stones/cliffs were the biggest problem and
#4's dot knolls were maybe 20cm high. Otherwise I was happy.
The hills up by D21E #15 must be drawn below minimum size...
The map felt better than last week's one, at least from the accuracy point of view. But yes, more generalisation... it's strange how putting less detail means more work in these lidar-enhanced days.