frostbite wrote:The dead oak trees were very distinctive and it made perfect sense to map them as individual trees. The problem was that there were also some live oak trees which were equally distinctive, looked much like the dead oak trees, and were not mapped. It would have made more sense to map the live oak trees as well, but it is possible they were not allowed to. It says in the final details "No live oak trees are marked as separate distinct trees on the map – these just comprise the standard white forest. The live oak trees are conserved and are not used as control sites."
In practice it meant that you could not depend on a distinct tree being on the map unless it had a control on it.
It sounds to me like "we put it on the map because we needed a control site". In the same way we get micro knolls and mini boulders being mapped. What next? Map all the Corsican pine in a stand of Larch? If it is white forest then it is white forest and if some of the trees are a different species (or Dead - or Both) it doesn't matter it is just white forest. If the only way to tell if a feature is on the map is that it has a control on it the map must be unsuitable for use at a Regional Championship.