condes question

[batty]

Does anyone know how to add an extra line between controls to give route choice around an oob area?

[RWK]

I've always used the 'new boundary line' option on the right hand side and drawn it manually. The downside to this though is that if you move the control the line won't move automatically.

[batty]

how do you make this specific to certain courses only? When I use it, it appears on every course.

[RWK]

I make the line transparent when printing other courses. It's very much a bodge job, there could very well be a 'proper' way of doing it.

[graeme]

I thought that if there's a choice of which side of the OOB to go, you just make the line straight, perhaps broken at the OOB. Am I mistaken?

[pete.owens]

If you add a few nodes and put a break in the line you can then drag the nodes so the two segments form the different route choices.

It will muck up the automatically calculated length for your course though.

[pete.owens]

If you add a few nodes and put a break in the line you can then drag the nodes so the two segments form the different route choices.

It will muck up the automatically calculated length for your course though.

[SteveE]

I thought that if there's a choice of which side of the OOB to go, you just make the line straight, perhaps broken at the OOB.

Would appear to be supported by BOF rules appendix B 3.1.21

Where there is more than one option for crossing the uncrossable boundary, the line between controls should be broken either side of the boundary. Sufficient crossing points should be provided such that there is an option on all likely route choices and no competitor will gain an advantage by not using a crossing point.

.... but replacing uncrossable boundary with OOB.

[ianandmonika]

My understanding of BO rule is as Graeme's in that line is drawn direct, but hidden through OOB. This is what was done at Twin Peaks Macc Forest. To get correct distance, easy to do a test with line following shortest route round OOB and overwrite distance in CDs. It is not allowed in rules but does help to put a purple boundary round OOB.

[NeilC]

It is not allowed in rules but does help to put a purple boundary round OOB.

Which rule prevents us doing this?

[GML]

It is not allowed in rules but does help to put a purple boundary round OOB.

Which rule prevents us doing this?

Isn't the boundary line (if any) supposed to indicate how the edge of the OOB area is identified on the ground (if there isn't a natural boundary e.g. a fence)?

ISOM Symbol 709: A bounding line may be drawn if there is no natural boundary, as follows:
- a solid line indicates that the boundary is marked continuously (tapes, etc.) on the
ground,
- a dashed line indicates intermittent marking on the ground,
- no line indicates no marking on the ground.

[ianandmonika]

At Macc Forest, no marking of OOB on ground but OOB would have been more visible on map if there had been a continuous line round it. But the rules do not allow that.

[graeme]

So why would you want to tell competitors that there's a big bit of tape round the out of bounds, when actually there isn't?

[ianandmonika]

Nothing to do with tape on the ground, only saying that OOB on map would have been more visible to competitors if it had a solid boundary line round it.

[Oldman]

Is Graeme's point not that putting a line round OOB says specifically "this OOB area is taped off", and hence should never be done unless there is a tape.