Comments on: Les Bouzigasses

By: Anatolijs

Anatolijs — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:45:23 +0000

It was a pleasure to run on this map. Those few mistakes I made in the JEC long distance were only my own fault and had nothing to do with the map. I was amazed that somebody could map this at all and I would never call it a bad map. Thierry ran the same course after us (JEC competitors) and beat the winner by more than 10 minutes, and I have never heard him complaining about the map quality (neither then, nor one year later during the French 6-days), and Thierry surely knows the deal in orienteering maps. ;)

By: Philipp

Philipp — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:14:55 +0000

It was pretty hard to run on these maps. Indeed the quality of the maps was not very good but the terrain is simply amazing. I would pick a map from Aveyron but not this one. I liked the training maps from the six days 2008 the most and they had a scale of 1:10000 I think.

By: Ivan Nagy

Ivan Nagy — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 06:51:36 +0000

Erik, thanks for the comment. I answered in more detail under the Steffen’s comment (currently the last one).

By: Ivan Nagy

Ivan Nagy — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 06:50:36 +0000

This is a second comment (along with Erik S’s comment above) saying the maps were overly mapped. It is an interesting point and we will try to make a discussion about this on one of our later posts.

Acually, there has been a discussion about this problem recently at:
http://news.worldofo.com/2009/12/15/route-to-christmas-day-15-2009/ (see the end of the article).

This particualr map (the detailed one) was not the final version and it underwent some “sweeping” of non important details. So, now, there are actually 3 versions of the map :)

By: Steffen

Steffen — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:40:10 +0000

I was there at the six days 2008. The terrain looks great but the quality of the maps were really bad. The maps were completely over mapped with useless details. I could not advise anybody to run there.

By: Jan Kocbach

Jan Kocbach — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:53:27 +0000

Thanks a lot Peder – a nice list of maps there! And thanks Tibor for adding the location for Sainte-Eulalie-de-Cernon.

By: Tibor

Tibor — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:40:38 +0000

Sainte-Eulalie-de-Cernon aka St Eulalie de Cernon is located :-)

spelling is everything :-)

By: Jan Kocbach

Jan Kocbach — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:17:28 +0000

Thanks for the JEC-07 course, Anatolijs. I’m really looking forward to run there once – rather sooner than later. Going to bring my camera and get some nice photos for the book..

By: Jan

Jan — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:15:25 +0000

Maps from other terrains which are similar to the Aveyron-terrain might very well make it into the final list, indeed! That’s also why we ask for more maps/areas with similar terrain characteristics. It has been quite quiet in that regard so far. Does nobody have any maps? I know there was a Portugal Orienteering Meeting in a somewhat similar terrain a few years ago – but I couldn’t find the map.

Putting in two different maps from the Aveyron-region does not seem that probable, though.

By: Eddie Harwood

Eddie Harwood — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:10:04 +0000

Surely terrains as specialas this need more than 1 map in the final 101. I cannot believe that there will not be maps at least as similar (Scandinavian maybe) as any 2 from Avyron in your final pick.