Route Gadget for JK

[gingerflyer]

I can't seem to find routegadget for the JK...
Am I missing it somewhere??

[DavidJ]

I can't seem to find routegadget for the JK...
Am I missing it somewhere??

I have also been looking but found the following on the JK web site: "RouteGadget and officials' comments will be available from here at some point after Monday 13th April 2009" so I presume it won't appear until after the relay sometime.

[mikey]

Seems fair enough.

The organisers are still organising.

[zulu_warrior]

The rationale behind the delay is that the computer 'wizz kid' is not home till Monday night. As stated in another tr=hread until we are prepared to pay for 'full time' officials we have to accept that asking someone to staying 100 miles away from home for 4 nights and helping out every day can not be expected to forget their own life!

[mharky]

no one was complaining

[Marco Polo]

looks like they are available
http://www.jk.routegadget.co.uk/

[andy]

good stuff getting them up so quickly after the event

[graeme]

So now we'll see from the GPS whether all my bellyaching about the basemap was justified... Don't have one myself, so I'm feeling quite nervous...

(Edit)
Well, no real need to be nervous now after being well outbellyached by the planners and controllers comments!

[Freefall]

OS MasterMap was used as the base mapping for Days 1,2 and 3 (supplied in digital format) and was certainly used by the Day 1 Mapper. I cannot verify if the Day 2 and 3 mapper chose to use this digital data. Also note that Day 2 and 3 were fall back areas (I think about third or fourth choice) and timescales prevented a photogrammetric survey being carried out (plus worry about costs at the time). Will be very interested to see some GPS tracks - but will they show the OS mapping is wrong or the Omapping is wrong?

[gingerflyer]

Thanks!!

[mike g]

No-one has grumbled about the relay map yet, but Routegadget shows something strange on my course.

I ran gaffle yY (middle leg of Mens Short) and made one mistake - on 5-6 (a 150m leg) I went to the depression by the crag 50m SW of the correct depression.

Remarkably everyone who has put their route on Routegadget did the same thing, including the person with the fastest split for the leg.

Is that just a bizarre coincidence, or was the map wrong, or (as I suspect) was 5 hung too far south so that we weren't where we thought at the start of the leg?

[Mrs H]

That's interesting but I don't think it's quite what you said. I had a similar leg and did a similar thing but starting from the small eastern most crag on the stream (course XX) two people have put it on route gadget and have done the same thing as well.

[mharky]

It's a bizzare coincidence, that control was hung fine. I had the boulder to the east of it as my first control and ran right through it on my way to the boulder SW of it. That control was also the 1st control of the JK Trophy middle legs starting with f, and I didn't hear any of them complain.

If it was hung to far south, which it wasn't, but if it was, where was it hung. Because it was definitely in a re-entrant, and there are no re-entrants to the south of it until you get to the really big one.

[Ben S]

I did the same on yY, but it was all my fault as I got lured over there by the masses of people punching. If I'd have trusted my navigation, I'd probably have hit the right depression.

[mharky]

Oh, and Ian Buxton has put his GPS route, which shows him going to 5 where it is drawn and then running off-line. You can't argue with the satellites!