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Thursday, October 28, 2004
Some odd maps
Check out the maps from the long distance races at the recently completed world cup races in Germany -- the men's course and the women's course. That's Simone Niggli-Luder's route on the women's map.
The German maps remind me a little bit of the first day of the North American Champs. Take a look at Peter Gagarin's map.
In Germany the organizers used an interesting solution to handling the hard to read detail. They enlarged little sections of the map to 1:7,500.
Of course it is quite hard to tell how readable a map would be when you look at the versions on the web. But I'm guessing it was tough to read well even at 1:7,500.
posted by Michael |
8:57 PM
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