We had a last minute change at the London City Race which affected #180 (control 9 on course 1) which was inaccessible on the day. We thought the footbridge was closed to be demolished but it turns out it was something more intriguing than that...[url][/url]
https://londonist.com/london/art-and-photography/a-traditional-korean-house-crash-lands-on-a-city-footbridge
Anyone beat that for a last minute map correction?
Last minute map correction
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Re: Last minute map correction
At a small urban event at the beginning of this year I was putting out controls in the dusk and hit a police block. I was told a large section of road was closed, including the footpath on the hillside above it which most courses used and had a control on it.
I came back just before the event started and the closed area had reduced a bit so I could put out the control, but we had to mark the larger road as OOB on the maps and it affected route options for some courses.
I spotted a suspicious body-sized tent on the road, though the newspaper later said it was an injured person rather than a dead body.
I came back just before the event started and the closed area had reduced a bit so I could put out the control, but we had to mark the larger road as OOB on the maps and it affected route options for some courses.
I spotted a suspicious body-sized tent on the road, though the newspaper later said it was an injured person rather than a dead body.
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Ryeland of Doom has some interesting photos from the interlopers Greendykes event in 2009.
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1617893
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1617576
The pre-event blurb did say
"... the ghost town of Greendykes. I can remember
when it was all just houses. Now it’s abandoned, waiting for the
dynamite to come. This may be your only chance to run here (or
not if they blow it up in the next month). "
Greendykes was a decent-sized estate (note the hyphen not comma). It looked good when we planned the courses. A week before the event only half of it was there, so I hurtled out and found another estate to add, the next week it was gone.
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1617893
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1617576
The pre-event blurb did say
"... the ghost town of Greendykes. I can remember
when it was all just houses. Now it’s abandoned, waiting for the
dynamite to come. This may be your only chance to run here (or
not if they blow it up in the next month). "
Greendykes was a decent-sized estate (note the hyphen not comma). It looked good when we planned the courses. A week before the event only half of it was there, so I hurtled out and found another estate to add, the next week it was gone.
Controller wrote:The first surprise came when Graeme sent me an updated
Craigmillar map. Not only had he found features that our original
mapper had contrived to miss – including two-contour high knolls –
but the map now included all the streets covering Craigmillar itself,
together with where Greendykes used to be, but had now apparently
disappeared. Time for a visit.
The map wasn’t lying: when did Greendykes become the set for a
post-apocalypse film? - some buildings standing, some burnt-out
cars, but absolutely no people.
Surreal.
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Re: Last minute map correction
The Grove Estate (NE corner of this map) had a similarly desolate feel when SLOW used it for a park race this summer. Demolition is apparently imminent, so I don't imagine that bit of the map will be used again - a shame from the orienteering point of view, as it's an excellent little sprint area.
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Re: Last minute map correction
odd path up the W side of the N end of the W hill - dead-end surrounded by uncrossable fence ?
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King Penguin wrote:odd path up the W side of the N end of the W hill - dead-end surrounded by uncrossable fence ?
Quick and dirty bit of Google-Fu tells me it was a gravel mining area and an Iron-Age hill fort - fence probably there to keep you out of one or both
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