World Rogaining Champs 2nd place for Gill
Big Foot's Gill Fowler, teaming up with Jess Baker from Sydney Striders has picked up 2nd place at the Wold Rogaining Champs in Czecho. The winning team in their women's division were Russian orienteers and adventure racers Galitarova Anastasia & Safronova Irina. Finns and East European teams headed up the top of the results board.
Preliminary results are here.
No other details yet, but here are some notes on the mapping:
The map for WRC 2012 has been printed. Some stats on this huge project:
Area 300 km2, 60x43 cm format, printed on Tyvek. Scale 1:40000, E=10m. Highest point Auersberg 1018 m, lowest point Svatava River 490 m. 4400 kms of contours, 1770 kms of tracks/roads, 143 lakes, 5 km2 of bogs and 740 km of streams and rivers. 5 km2 of settlement and 42 crosses.
The cartography work generated 1706 files totaling 16,6 GB! For the printshop (Zaket) 5 files in 1 - layout.ocd with background map.ocd, in it another two backgrounds transparent yellow.ocd (rough open areas) and green .tiff showing forest. Plus course setting file on the top of that.
And big respect to all the cartographers who participated on the map. The trail network had to be made manually! Hundreds of kilometers of biking, running and walking. Fieldwork: Aleš Hejna - Olles maps (www.facebook.com/ollesmaps), Miroslav Seidl, Jan Tojnar, Martin Sajal, Jan Čech, Tomáš Švihla, Milan Bílý and Roman Horký. The cartography was greatly enhanced also by Jakub Hulec, Josef Hejna and Milan Borovička. Thanks guys!