1:7500 for older competitors
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Re: 1:7500 for older competitors
Both those maps look like they should be put through the new OCAD tool that highlights features drawn too close to each other - or even overlapping. And changing the scale doesn't help. While, those symbols are further apart they are larger and drawn with thicker lines so they still overlap. Mapping every pit in an area like that is like mapping every individual tree in the forest.
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Re: 1:7500 for older competitors
Are you the Pete Owens who complained about plebs getting laser printed maps for the British Orienteering Championships? Assuming you did run there what do you think after the event? Litho printed maps (400 just for the 1:15,000) cost £1,890. All other maps (1380 laser printed) cost £1,407.
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Re: 1:7500 for older competitors
Yup was me:
Entry fee for elites £27
Entry fee for plebs £27
It is the same issue as when water stations are provided for elites and the plebs told we cannot drink it.
So a bit of maths on those figures:
The reason offset litho is more expensive than digital printing is the initial set-up cost of the print run - the unit cost is cheaper. So let us assume that the costs in this case is
£400 set-up + £1 for the map for litho vs £1 per map for laser. ie there would be a one-off excess cost of £400 per course.
Now the rules already allow for the W80+ courses to be laser printed at a larger scale due to very small entries - and there probably isn't the need to print the colour coded and young junior courses. MW40- could be accommodated on the MW18-20 courses. So that leaves a range of technical courses running from 3.4 to 8.7 km (roughly Short Green to Brown). Given the entry numbers 6 courses should be sufficient and this would add £2400 to the printing costs. We are still talking about a small proportion of the entry fee .
Entry fee for elites £27
Entry fee for plebs £27
It is the same issue as when water stations are provided for elites and the plebs told we cannot drink it.
So a bit of maths on those figures:
The reason offset litho is more expensive than digital printing is the initial set-up cost of the print run - the unit cost is cheaper. So let us assume that the costs in this case is
£400 set-up + £1 for the map for litho vs £1 per map for laser. ie there would be a one-off excess cost of £400 per course.
Now the rules already allow for the W80+ courses to be laser printed at a larger scale due to very small entries - and there probably isn't the need to print the colour coded and young junior courses. MW40- could be accommodated on the MW18-20 courses. So that leaves a range of technical courses running from 3.4 to 8.7 km (roughly Short Green to Brown). Given the entry numbers 6 courses should be sufficient and this would add £2400 to the printing costs. We are still talking about a small proportion of the entry fee .
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