Occassional thoughts about orienteering
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Thursday, March 20, 2008 Minna's Tiny MapBelow is Minna Kauppi's tiny map: ...I had time in the afternoons to make a map around our hotel....The idea was to find as many chocolate eggs as possible by memorizing the controls one by one. The map was excellent, of course... Tiny maps are one of my favorite subjects. Reminds me that I need to do some fieldwork on my latest tiny map of the park a couple of blocks from my office. Here is the base map:  Back to okansas.blogspot.com. posted by Michael | 8:33 PM 
Wednesday, February 03, 2010 Tiny map...far, far awayI've been thinking about trying to make a map from a distance. Pick an area, find good basemap material, study available photos, and create a map. It'd be an interesting experiment to see how much you could do without setting foot in the terrain.And yesterday an example of just such an experiment arrived by email. Check out this map from Ferran Santoyo Medina of Spain.  And here is a nice interview with the mapper. Back to okansas.blogspot.com. posted by Michael | 7:51 PM
Friday, January 25, 2008 Weekend project = a tiny O' mapI've decided to create a tiny orienteering map this weekend. I was inspired by the latest from Alessio Tenani's blog (an example below): Now, I may very well be too lazy to actually make a map. But, my current plan is to have some sort of tiny O' map ready by the end of the day Sunday. Stay tuned. Back to okansas.blogspot.com. posted by Michael | 8:01 PM
Saturday, April 06, 2013 First test with OpenOrienteering Mapper
I finally got around to downloading OpenOrienteering Mapper and trying it out. My first test was to create a tiny map of an area I'm familiar with but that is a long way away. You can see the result below.
 The map is based on a georeference air photo that I downloaded from the National Map Viewer. I haven't done any fieldchecking, but I might do something the next time I'm in the area. My general impression of OpenOrienteering Mapper is positive. I was able to make use of it without much frustration. That's a bit unusual for me when I'm first using new software. Back to okansas.blogspot.com. posted by Michael | 5:01 PM
Tuesday, January 29, 2008 More tiny mapsGiovanni posted a comment that included links to some tiny maps in Italy. Check out this and this.I'm not really sure how useful these tiny maps are. They could be good to show people what orienteering is about and to share with school and scout groups who want to learn about orienteering. Even if they aren't all that useful, they are fun (and quick) to make. Using a combination of basemap material from the internet and OCAD it is fairly easy to create a tiny map. Where I live you can find some good basemaps for Johnson County through the AIMS online mapper and for Lawrence through the city's GIS. I think a lot of other cities and counties have similar online mapping tools. Back to okansas.blogspot.com. posted by Michael | 8:30 PM
Friday, September 11, 2009 A tiny orienteering mapI'm a fan of tiny orienteering maps. So, I liked this map: I watched a bit of the live video coverage of the event. You can see the video at One&Other. Here are some previous posts about tiny orienteering maps. Back to okansas.blogspot.com. posted by Michael | 8:35 PM
Monday, December 26, 2005 Tis the season......for making little tiny orienteering maps. I drew a map of Stephen and Annette's home as a Christmas present. I used aerial photos and USGS contours that I found on the internet. I've only visited their house once and I'm sure the map will need some fieldchecking. I hope to get back there (Clinton Corners, NY) in the spring and finish the map.  Christina mapper her parents house. A few years ago, Mikell Platt mapped our house. We hosted a small race, but the map hasn't seen much use in years and needs updating (we've planted some trees). I'm guessing that lots of orienteers have little maps like this. It would seem to be a very good indication that someone is a serious O' geek. Which, depending on your point of view, is a very good thing or a bit sad. I think it is good and I'm guessing that most people taking the time to read this page would agree. posted by Michael | 10:56 AM
Thursday, December 29, 2005 More tiny mapsHere are a couple more tiny O' maps. This map is my home. Mikell Platt fieldchecked the map a few years ago. We need to update it to include some new tress (which make the terrain more interesting from a course setting standpoint!). Ollie mapped his parents house. He wrote about it at Yep Sport.Terkelsen's web page I hadn't seen Chris Terkelsen's web page until today. It looks good, but it is all in Danish. Even if you can't manage the language, it has lots of interesting maps (from the main page look for the "kort" link). posted by Michael | 9:19 PM
Tuesday, April 24, 2007 Today's project = a tiny map Maybe I'll add contours tomorrow. Back to okansas.blogspot.com. posted by Michael | 6:55 PM
Sunday, January 27, 2008 Does racing Gueorgiou or Niggli make you worse?Put yourself in the shoes of a world class orienteer. You're getting ready for a big race - a WOC or a World Cup - but you know that you're going up against Thierry Gueorgiou or Simone Niggli. Does facing a superstar help or hurt your performance?Maybe racing against a superstar inspires you. You push harder, focus better. Your performance is better. But, you still (probably) finish behind the superstar. Or maybe racing against a superstar weakens your performance. You feel like a perfect run won't quite be enough. You aren't quite as inspired or prepared as you should be. Or maybe you feel like a perfect run won't quite be enough, so you take a lot of chances. Does facing a superstar help or hurt your performance? It is an interesting question. Jennifer Brown, a PhD candidate at UC-Berkeley, looked at an analogous question by studying how golfers performed when Tiger Woods was competing. Basically, she found that top professional golfers performed worse when facing Tiger Woods. It is a bit more complicated (and interesting) than that. So, if you're interested you should read the paper (see the link at Jennifer Brown's collection of working papers). Here is the abstract of her paper: Managers use internal competition to motivate worker effort, yet I present a simple economic model suggesting that the benefits of competition depend critically on workers' relative abilities---large differences in skill may reduce competitors' efforts. This paper uses panel data from professional golfers and finds that the presence of a superstar in a rank-order tournament is associated with lower competitor performance. On average, higher-skill PGA golfers' tournament scores are 0.8 strokes higher when Tiger Woods participates, relative to when Woods is absent. Lower-skill players' scores appear unaffected by the superstar's presence. The adverse superstar effect increases during Woods's streaks and disappears during Woods's slumps. There is no evidence that reduced performance is due to "riskier" play. Tiny Map Update I started, but didn't finish, my weekend project.  Back to okansas.blogspot.com. posted by Michael | 4:54 PM
Monday, January 02, 2006 Another tiny mapAnother fine effort.
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Sunday, September 21, 2003 VideoPunchI spent some time this morning drinking a good cup of coffee and reading some of the articles Johan Ivarsson wrote. The idea was to write a bit about Ivarsson's thoughts.Then I bumped into a Swedish web page full of short video clips of orienteers in the forest. If you've been reading this page for a long time, you might remember that I'm interested in watching orienteers in the forest. So, instead of Ivarsson's thoughts, I'll write a bit about "VideoPunch." What is VideoPunch? VideoPunch is a very simple and cheap system for capturing video clips of orienteers punching in the forest. Basically it involves putting a lap top with a web cam out in the forest, then synchronizing the video clips with data from electronic punching. You end up with a result list that has links to short video clips of the runners punching at a specific control. I'm not sure it is useful, but it is kind of cool. Check out the VideoPunch results from this weekend's Swedish short champs. Click on Mattias Karlsson (IK Hakarpspojkarna) to see a World Champ making a tiny boom. Joergen Olsson (Pan Kristianstad) seems to be reading his clue sheet just before he punches. Peter Jacobsson (OK Ravinen), with his feet flaring out and his knees knocking, must have the oddest running style for an elite athlete. Elin Dahlsted (Leksands OK) booms a couple of seconds. My former clubmate Tina Junegard (OK Ravinen) is just a step or two behind Emma Engstrand. But, Tina isn't just hanging Engstrand, you can see that she's checking her map on the way out. For a contrast, watch the guy who is following Hakan Ohlund (IK Hakarpspojkarna). Ohlund's shadow doesn't even glance at the map. More info about the system is at VideoPunch. posted by Michael | 7:29 PM
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