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Thursday, November 16, 2006

Sprint map fieldchecking

Gene and I worked to fieldcheck the KU Campus sprint map this summer and fall. It was more interesting than I'd expected. Compared to fieldchecking a regular map in the forest, working on a sprint map was:

The sprint mapping was much less physically draining. Working on a map in the forest is tough. You spend a lot of time stomping through rough terrain, up and down hills. But the sprint terrain was much more gentle. After a few hours you might be tired of mapping, but you didn't feel worn out the way you would after a few hours in the forest.

The sprint mapping felt like you made more cartographic decisions per hour. The fun, and the difficulty, of mapping is making decisions. Is the forest thick enough to be green or is it still white? Is that boulder large enough to map? Is that cliff crossable? Those decisions are interesting. On the KU Campus you made lots of decision, mostly about how much to generalize the features and whether or not features were crossable. It helped that the basemap was good. You didn't spend much time having to place features in the right location because the basemap had so much detail.

Cool Danish Sprint Mapping Page

Take a look at Kell Sonnichsen,s sprint mapping page. It is in Danish but has lots of map clips and photos. So, even without being able to read it is worth a look.

I don't have the time or energy to translate the text, but I'll tell you that the links from the front page are:

Forside = front page
Traeer og buske = trees and bushes
Skov eller park? = forest or park?
Steir og veje = trails and roads
Mure = walls
Hvad ska ikke med = What should not be included

Sonnichen's page gives you a sense of some of the decision-making while sprint mapping.

posted by Michael | 9:04 PM

2 comments

Comments:

That is great! I can't erad Danish, but I can read maps and pictures. Very interesting...

Clem

# posted by

Anonymous : 7:34 AM

Kell included an English version as well.
EricW

# posted by

Anonymous : 5:15 PM

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