That's why I want to get someone who knows what they're doing ot do it.
And yes OUOC members, there are multiple street maps, but they are all black and white traces from various street maps and with no buildings so pretty useless for a proper race! I think it would be easier to start from scratch with someone who really knows what they're doing.
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Not much help with you finding a surveyor, but don't ignore the OS Superplan option. It may look expensive (prices vary a bit depending on outlet) but you usually get a very up to date colour basemap at the scale at the scale you want, centred where you want (with contours). My experience of urban park and street mapping is that the time and effort it saves often more than compensates for the price - I usually go for a 1:5000 version. You can preview the map before it's printed off. In Oxford, Blackwell's will be the outlet. It may be too expensive, but worth enquiring?
Depending on the package that is being used for drawing, I'm fairly certain you can get a digital version, but I've used the paper printouts so can't comment on those or the price of them.
Depending on the package that is being used for drawing, I'm fairly certain you can get a digital version, but I've used the paper printouts so can't comment on those or the price of them.
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Yes, I managed to tape the WOC Sprint highlights from Swiss TV last August and have converted it to MPEG1 format (82M). If there's any demand for it I could make it available for download from the WCup 2005 site.
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...
Yes, I managed to tape the WOC Sprint highlights from Swiss TV last August and have converted it to MPEG1 format (82M). If there's any demand for it I could make it available for download from the WCup 2005 site.
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You might like to try the BOF Mapping Group website http://www.james.head.btinternet.co.uk/ which has various info on getting maps made, including draft contracts.
From our club's experience, most mappers live in the north of the country, and are reluctant (for what ever reasons) to travel to the south. We also paid a reasonable sum for a map that has proved to be ludicrously inaccurate. We're now redoing it ourselves and not even using the old map as a base.
I'd be inclined to have a go yourself. There must be some club mappers out there who'd be willing to share their secrets....
From our club's experience, most mappers live in the north of the country, and are reluctant (for what ever reasons) to travel to the south. We also paid a reasonable sum for a map that has proved to be ludicrously inaccurate. We're now redoing it ourselves and not even using the old map as a base.
I'd be inclined to have a go yourself. There must be some club mappers out there who'd be willing to share their secrets....
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we had a sprint race last night on a small park in sheffield which craney had mapped. he used an aerial photo as the base map which came from multimap. apparently they're available for all cities... other than that you'd have to ask him!
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The Oxford one doesn't look usuable, the resolution ain't too good when looking at 1:5000, and the buildings get in the way of the little lanes and other cut-throughs.
http://www.multimap.com/map/photo.cgi?client=public&x=451500.030913253&y=206000.379846936&width=500&height=310&up.x=8&up.y=5&scale=5000
too much detail in the picture to use as a base map, and the shadows don't help either...
probably works for Park races, but not town centres. but I think OUOC could club together and have a good bash at it ourselves first, see what we come up with.
http://www.multimap.com/map/photo.cgi?client=public&x=451500.030913253&y=206000.379846936&width=500&height=310&up.x=8&up.y=5&scale=5000
too much detail in the picture to use as a base map, and the shadows don't help either...
probably works for Park races, but not town centres. but I think OUOC could club together and have a good bash at it ourselves first, see what we come up with.
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On the subject of the Switzerland WOC sprint shamps, there was a 'professionally made' video that you could buy from that. Unfortunately i don't have a copy but i'm sure there is one floating about amongst nopesport members
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I seem to remember reading somewhere, (sadly can't remember where) that some really good orienteer had made their own map of Rapperswil from a tourist streetmap prior to the world champs..so it may be ok to use the A-Z as a base map to add features to.
Also, don't forget that you may be able to get cash from the Lottery to pay for the mapping and printing.
Also, don't forget that you may be able to get cash from the Lottery to pay for the mapping and printing.
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shadows can be a major issue, one of the original maps made from an arial photo of princes street gardens had an extra building on it!! the best approach is a combination of all: photo, OS map, A-Z and getting out there yourself after putting these together.
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What you need is an edina digimap account, which you can get free through uni if you are in any kind of geog/architecture/landscape/planning department. From there you can download the relevant tiles, which can be brought together in Autocad to form a wireline base. This includes 10m contours, monuments, steps, woodland boundaries, surface changes and more. Sometimes the accuracy is not always 100% but buildings are always perfect. This can then be exported as a jpg/bmp and imported into OCAD as your base.
There you go....also it is worth paying for a high quality ariel photo, as mapping planting beds/thickets/bits of wood is often the most time consuming bit of survey....well when theres no contours to wiggle!!
There you go....also it is worth paying for a high quality ariel photo, as mapping planting beds/thickets/bits of wood is often the most time consuming bit of survey....well when theres no contours to wiggle!!
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