okansas.blogspot.com Occassional thoughts about orienteering
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
A new old sprint area
I've been thinking about a mapping project for the summer. One option is to expand Orienteer Kansas' map of the KU Campus (you can find a link to the current map). But, another option occurred to me. Maybe we could map the Haskell campus. A long time ago, we had a black and white O' map of part of the Haskell campus. I don't remember ever running an orienteering competition on the map (though I'm sure there were a few), but I remember carrying the map with me when I ran (often) on the cross country trails.
The main part of the Haskell campus, which is north east of the map above, would make for an interesting sprint mapping project. It'd be a great place for a sprint race. I think Orienteer Kansas mapped the main campus around 1989 (?) and used the map as part of a park orienteering series.
Before mapping the campus, I'll need to get in touch with someone at Haskell and discuss permission to use the campus for an orienteering event. Given that we've been able to orienteer on the KU campus recently and have used the Haskell campus (though it was a long time ago), I'd be hopeful that we could use the area for a small competition.
As I was poking around the internet looking for information about the Haskell campus, I came across the university's GIS lab, with several maps of campus (including the cross country trails). I also found a collection of 3d models of the buildings on campus that you can open in Google Earth (very cool).
