okansas.blogspot.com Occassional thoughts about orienteering
Saturday, September 03, 2005
Exploring an area for a new map
I spent some time this morning with some PTOCers exploring an area that PTOC has begun mapping. I like it. Nice terrain and just ten minutes from my front door.
Dick demonstrated his OCAD/GPS mapping set-up (see the photo). He's got a computer that attaches to a belt. The screen is small and attached by a wire. He attaches a GPS to the computer. He can open OCAD on the computer and a cursor shows up marking the location. As he walks around, the GPS tracks his location and the cursor moves as he does. It is pretty slick. I'm not sure it is a whole lot better than a basemap on a map board under mylar. But, it is a whole lot slicker.
There is a small cemetery in the middle of the map. I'd expected a little farm cemetery, with maybe half a dozen tomb stones. In fact, it is fairly large. The setting, deep in the forest with sunlight streaming through and highlighting some of the tomb stones inspired me to pull out my camera and take a snapshot.
Rich, who works at the conference center in the middle of the map, told me that a bus would be arriving in the next few days brining refugees from New Orleans. They'll stay at the housing on the map.
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