Earlier this evening I was making a few controller's comments about the map for the SW Sprint Champs (day 1 of the BOK Blast at Yate, Sat 3 Sep). Three of them (one suggested change and two thumbs-up) were purely about legibility: how to make it obvious to the competitor what's going on, where they can go and where they can't.
I'm not convinced that the York map fragment does make it clear. Small or narrow patches of colour, like short lengths of 'uncrossable' feature and small gaps, are notoriously difficult to read. After all (playing Devil's advocate here), if there's a gap on the ground between the two fences but when you look at the map you find that the two big fat fence symbols have obliterated the colour, who's to say that the colour shouldn't be yellow i.e. that there's actually a legitimate route in from the SW?
(OK, you'd have to cross some olive green to get to the start of it but that's not the point.)Anyway, I hope you all enjoyed yourselves in York. Mount Edgcumbe was a rather steeper than the Ouse floodplain, but the elevation afforded us some great views across Plymouth Sound.
