Craig A Barns

[ianandmonika]

Thanks to ESOC for a good technical event on an excellent map. That's what orienteering is about, out alone in the forest with technical courses. Really enjoyed it, even the nice gentle uphill walk to the start. Good to see the Swedish A and B teams there on the Black and Brown courses, part of their week's WOC training in Scotland. See they are due back for a week's training later in the year.

[smf]

Results - http://www.esoc.org.uk/results-files/20 ... aigabarns/
Ranking Points - http://www.britishorienteering.org.uk/i ... eday=63490

[housewife]

What made Craig a Barnes special for me was the planning that made for really interesting route choice. 10 controls a in 6.8k course. Just shows that sometimes less can be more.

[andypat]

Really enjoyable and challenging event. Thanks ESOC.

[graeme]

an excellent map.

I'm looking at it alongside my JK1990, and there's no doubt that the old one is much clearer, despite being at 1:15000.
Not a criticism of ESOC - their map is typical of what we normally get now and their planning was much better.

[MIE]

I'm looking at it alongside my JK1990, and there's no doubt that the old one is much clearer, despite being at 1:15000.

1990 = Hand-drawn (or scribed) and off-set litho print.

If hand-drawn then that will have meant a survey draft at 1:7,500
instead of much larger drafts today with OCAD (up to 1:500?). This
alone resulted in more generalisation/rationalisation of features
and, together with off-set printing, a crisper clearer map (at any scale).
Even my hand-drawn efforts of the 70's to 90's looked "acceptable"
under those conditions

N.B. I have not seen the latest Craig A Barns map but have run on the
various iterations from 1970 onwards.

[Gross]

I remember running at a Scottish Junior.... map was 'gleaned from various sources', then came Graham Relf's colourful contribution.... with only the great Egil J spotting the old wall across the crags.

[mikey]

Happy days.

http://www.grelf.net/omaps/craigabarns.html

[smf]

an excellent map.

I'm looking at it alongside my JK1990, and there's no doubt that the old one is much clearer, despite being at 1:15000.
Not a criticism of ESOC - their map is typical of what we normally get now and their planning was much better.

I'm looking at it alongside my JK1990, and there's no doubt that the old one is much clearer, despite being at 1:15000.

N.B. I have not seen the latest Craig A Barns map but have run on the
various iterations from 1970 onwards.

As far as I know (ie we haven't paid for a resurvey) it is the same map as used at JK2012.