Comments on: Route To O-Season 2020: Day 99 http://news.worldofo.com/2020/06/21/route-to-o-season-2020-day-99/ Fri, 09 Jan 2026 09:51:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.39 By: Terje Wiig Mathisen http://news.worldofo.com/2020/06/21/route-to-o-season-2020-day-99/#comment-131491 Sun, 21 Jun 2020 10:58:22 +0000 http://news.worldofo.com/?p=17128#comment-131491 Duncan, I have been working on this project for over 3 years now, since I took over as leader of the Norwegian Mapping Commission, and before this I worked on the base maps for JWOC 2015 and WOC2019 so I have spent a lot of time on machine-generated maps: The orienteering technique is actually very similar, the main difference being that you have much less tiny details (boulders are totally missing, ditto small marshes, and the path system is extremely variable but usually quite bad unless we have open yellow areas like here. OTOH the contour detail is _very_ good, cliffs and vegetation might not be complete but when you see one on the map it is usually quite obvious in the terrain as well.

When using my own base maps I usually have 1m form lines visible as well, in which case you can use those to see every single little terrain feature.

]]> By: Duncan Bayliss http://news.worldofo.com/2020/06/21/route-to-o-season-2020-day-99/#comment-131490 Sun, 21 Jun 2020 09:35:57 +0000 http://news.worldofo.com/?p=17128#comment-131490 Thanks for bringing the Mapant project to the attention of more people. It is fascinating. The drawn quality looks very good. It will be interesting to see how mappers manage to integrate other data sources like drone surveys that were used in the map making for the Swiss O week in 2019. It also be very interesting to hear people’s comments when they have run on these types of maps and tested them.
Maybe we will get used to two types of orienteering technique, learning to run on these maps and also continuing with normal orienteering maps.

]]> By: Jan Kocbach http://news.worldofo.com/2020/06/21/route-to-o-season-2020-day-99/#comment-131489 Sun, 21 Jun 2020 08:23:08 +0000 http://news.worldofo.com/?p=17128#comment-131489 Tapio: This is a river, but it is so thin that you don’t see the blue interior. We should draw this in another way, thanks for bringing it up.

]]> By: Tapio Leino http://news.worldofo.com/2020/06/21/route-to-o-season-2020-day-99/#comment-131488 Sun, 21 Jun 2020 08:20:55 +0000 http://news.worldofo.com/?p=17128#comment-131488 Made me wondering, what is the black line beside the road in Day 99 problem (at your red route choice, at halfways of the leg)? Usually the black line is a forest road but here the blue ditch is connected to it.

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