Archive for March, 2008

Worst First Leg Ever?

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

I seem to fairly regularly screw up the first leg on orienteering courses. Often, the shorter the first leg, the worse the mistake. It’s as if I need a moment or two on a course to “warm up” my navigational abilities, just like I need a moment or two before the start to warm up [...]

Mystery Building

Friday, March 7th, 2008

Here’s a mystery building for you - can you guess what it is? It’s in the City of London.

Layers used in the City of London Map

Saturday, March 1st, 2008

Here is how I am layering the City of London map, which I am creating using Adobe Illustrator and the MapStudio plugin. I’m basing the features/colours on the ISSOM2007 spec, as much as possible.
Layers

Layer
Main Colours
Features

O-Courses
Purple, Brown
Courses, Corrections, Northing Lines

Tunnel Walls
Black Dots, Brown
Showing runnable routes below main level. May use thick brown lines to show tunnel [...]