graeme wrote:Jon Brooke wrote:.... assumed it would be about orienteers' beards.
From time to time I hear elite athletes refer to the "IOF Mapping Fundamentalists". I had thought this might be about pyjamas and unkempt beards, but spookster's document gives me pause...The rules are reasonable and clear when it comes to map scale!
Find a terrain that is suitable for the competition format
This idea that if the facts (of the terrain) don't fit the book, then the facts must be changed does smack of fundamentalism.
I was amused at the "Deviation requests all denied".
Presumably this is why Day 4 of Moray 2013 is the WRE and Days 4 & 6 are being used for Euromeeting: they're the only ISOM-compliant maps