okansas.blogspot.com Occassional thoughts about orienteering
Monday, May 21, 2007
Chatting about map quality
I came across some interesting discussion about map quality over on Jon Pedersen's page (all in Norwegian). He posted three examples of parts of the map that he had trouble with.
In this clip, Pedersen wonders if there should be more yellow on the map and if there should be a "soekk" on the map (I don't know what that is, but I'm thinking it might be a little marsh).
In the next clip, Pedersen speculates that the cliff actually is oriented directly east/west.
In the last clip, Pedersen wonders if the relationship between the two dot knolls is off.
Mapping is really hard. I try not to complain too much about maps. But I think it is interesting to see the sort of problems Pedersen picked out. Pedersen writes (and I did translate this part!):
Is this just another way to draw a map? Do I just have to learn to find the controls when the map is like this? Is the map just rough or is it "slurvete" [which I think means "sloppy"]? Or maybe I'm just annoyed because I boomed in the beginning of the course...
Going over the comments on Pedersen's article, I came across a link I've been meaning to point to for a few weeks...a very cool comparison of different fieldcheckers. Also worth a look (if you can read the Norwegian) is Haavard Tveite's comment. Tveite is a very serious orienteering map geek.
