Comments on: Sekotsuji (Mt. Fuji 富士山)

By: Zerbembasqwibo

Zerbembasqwibo — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 08:56:58 +0000

There is actually one more opne map in “Fågelsjö”, but it is just a crappy map on sh*t terrain… :)

Oskar Karlin also have the same idea of an area on island Ornö in the apcipelago in Stockholm to get in mapped quicker.

Read here, http://translate.google.com may help non-swedes to understand:
http://www.kontrakurs.se/2009/08/07/orno-en-karta-blir-tillganglig-for-alla/

The practical things on storing files are still not solved, but so far no one wanted to update the file.

By: Ivan Nagy

Ivan Nagy — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 06:40:09 +0000

Hi, thanks for this very interesting entry. Was not aware something like this (open source map)exists. It is a new concept in the world of O-maps and I’m interested how it will work in practice. Put it on the list, probably will be presented on the blog.
BTW. the terrain looks very nice. Thanks.

By: Zerbembasqwibo

Zerbembasqwibo — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:58:33 +0000

I suggest also Harsprånget, Sweden. The map was drawn in three days mostly by Erik Sundberg, without any other help than white paper and GPS first day…

The map covers very nice terrain, and the surrounding terrain is totally different.

The map is “Open source”. It means anyone can download it for free (OCAD-file too) and continue drawing, or make a competition on it (just ask landowner first!).

PDF: http://www.alternativet.nu/openorienteeringmap/harspranget.pdf
OCAD8: http://www.alternativet.nu/openorienteeringmap/harspranget_OCAD8_v1.0.ocd

As far as I know, this is the first map with kind of license?

Aricle in Swedish: http://www.alternativet.nu/alternativet.asp?id=4078

1:st of July 2009 the club behind http://www.alternativet.nu arranged a middle distance orienteering on that map.

Results: http://www.obasen.nu/winsplits/online/sv/default.asp?page=table&databaseId=12096&categoryId=2

By: Rob Plowright

Rob Plowright — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 13:45:37 +0000

oops AsOC website: http://www.orienteering.asia/index-en.html

By: Rob Plowright

Rob Plowright — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 13:24:02 +0000

The WOC 05 terrain is pretty typical of a lot of Japanese terrain: steep cedar forest(very similar to Fuji terrain and also very soft underfoot). The WOC areas are definitely among the best examples of this sort of terrain in Japan.

But is tough terrain – just look at the km rates form WOC. You spend a lot time of time walking up very steep hills.

The Fuji is special for Japan because is about the only terrain in Japan where you can run under 8min/km.

If you want to try both terrains you have an excellent chance very soon. In early MAy there is the Asian Championships – the long and relay will be on updated maps from WOC05. And I am going to organise some races on the following weekend on the 2005 Japan Championships map in Fuji.

AsOC website:
http://www.orienteering.com/~joc2004/alljapanwinnerswomen.gif

Here’s another Fuji map – the 2005 Japan Championships map with winners’ routes (there some international teams here for WOC training)

http://www.orienteering.com/~joc2004/alljapanwinnersmen1.gif
http://www.orienteering.com/~joc2004/alljapanwinnerswomen.gif

By: Jan Kocbach

Jan Kocbach — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 11:37:59 +0000

I’ve really enjoyed playing Catching Features on the WOC 2005 maps – doing lots of mistakes – and I’d really want to try out those maps in real life. Thus I’m not sure I agree with Ivan that the Sekotsuji map is the most interesting map in Japan – but there should maybe be room for two maps from Japan on the list? On the other hand, I don’t know if the WOC 2005 maps are special, or if there is a lot of similar terrain around in Japan and elsewhere (there probably is?)… But I’d definetely want to try orienteering in that kind of terrain!