Professional mapping costs
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Professional mapping costs
Just wondering for our AGM what sort of prices companies charge for professional mapping? We're considering getting Central Oxford mapped for a sprint race to co-incide with the World Cup 2005 - any ideas?
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Becks - god
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what sort of standard are we talking about? is it for a wee race or a big, well advertised afair? if you dont need it to be championship standard i reckon you can find someone local to do it for nowt. rocky'll do it for ye, he's keen. he'll do anything for beers
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samsonite - class clown
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Hopefully for something quite big - if someone non pro wanted to do it we could pay them travel and some sort of negiotiable wage - but I guess we'd probs want proof they're any good first!
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Becks - god
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what work rocky?
and i very rarely give you beer as i have seen what it can do to a man of your reputation.
i have volunteered you for mapping cos i thought you have done it before but i now i realise i may have just made that up for attention. have u done it before?
and i very rarely give you beer as i have seen what it can do to a man of your reputation.
i have volunteered you for mapping cos i thought you have done it before but i now i realise i may have just made that up for attention. have u done it before?
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samsonite - class clown
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Re: Professional mapping costs
Becks wrote:Just wondering for our AGM what sort of prices companies charge for professional mapping? We're considering getting Central Oxford mapped for a sprint race to co-incide with the World Cup 2005 - any ideas?
here's an idea, why not ask them???
get an OS map with the size of area marked out and send it to the mapping comps and wait for the quotes to come in.
Reckon you'ld be better off finding someone to do it on the cheap for you - surely there must be some maping keen jok-er out there? sprint race maps aren't going to be particularly difficult to do if you have a good base to work from, here's some advice given to me by stirling surveys:
stirling surveys wrote:For areas with lots of buildings (eg university campuses) the OS 1:1250 mapping usually gives a better base (there are no contours, but they can easily be added from the 1:25,000 maps).
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Re: Professional mapping costs
brooner wrote:stirling surveys wrote:For areas with lots of buildings (eg university campuses) the OS 1:1250 mapping usually gives a better base (there are no contours, but they can easily be added from the 1:25,000 maps).
There are no contours in Oxford anyway!
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Problerm with sending off samples is that the Oxford postal service is still catching up with itself and all I need is a very rough idea to take to the AGM - then we'll make the decision and do it the proper way.
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Becks - god
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Re: Professional mapping costs
LukeW wrote:There are no contours in Oxford anyway!
That was my first thought as well - there's a slight rise up to the city centre IIRC but only a few contours in total. The contour detail you'll actually use (small knolls, steep banks etc.) won't be on any OS map, but will be easy to add in by hand.
If I were you, Becky, I'd have a go at doing it yourself - mapping is quite easy in flat areas, just a bit time-consuming (so a pro would be a waste of money) - and in town you'll have an extremely good base map to start with because all the streets and buildings are on the OS large-scale plans.
On the other hand, if you're determined to spend money let me know the boundaries of the area you're looking at (road names and rough description will do) and I'll come up with a bargain quote
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Adding to all this - does anyone know where we'd be able to get video footage of this years World Sprint Champs if it exists at all? It may well help in persuading colleges to let us use them...
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Becks - god
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Not sure about the World Champs, but there are a couple of promotional videos on the Park World Tour website.
http://www.pwt.org/
http://www.pwt.org/
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becks, if u can supply me a very small scale os map, i can produce you a map in illustrator, with legend, border etc. it would then be a case of you printing off a copy and going out and checking it.
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samsonite - class clown
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Hmmm....cheers for the offer Samsonite but I reckon Ed could probably do an easier job from down here if he ever actually replies to his e mails. As for the videos, I can only get the sound on my comp which isn't that useful....hmm...any more ideas?
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Becks - god
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Becks, isn't there already a larger scale (1:15000) map of Oxford streets that we use for the Street-O, and I'm sure there's an OCAD file of it as well, can't be too difficult to add detail to that, surely?
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I wouldn't be sure a city centre is that easy to map - my experience of park mapping is that it's really tricky. You want to make it fair by showing e.g. ways through bushes, but that just involves lots of walking around through lots of bushes. Similarly trying to work out how to show bridges and the like is fun (I was trying to map a big dual-carriageway flyover that went right across the area, with some car parking, walls, open land, who knows what else beneath it... a little bit of fun)
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