okansas.blogspot.com Occassional thoughts about orienteering
Sunday, March 29, 2009
A note on the Nebraska terrain and map
I spent a few minutes looking at the map from yesterday. It is a shame that the base map is USGS contours. The contours just don't do a good job of showing the terrain - and the terrain is much more interesting than it looks from the USGS contours. The area is loess terrain, meaning there are more reentrants and some deep gullies. It would be a real chore to adequately map the terrain from the USGS contours. But it would make the area much more interesting from an orienteering standpoint. Hopefully it won't be too many more years before some Lidar data shows up for Indian Cave.
