Oct 2008 Western Australian Rogaining Asscociation Setting and Vetting Seminar Competition Map Production Gary Carroll

Oct 2008Western Australian Rogaining Asscociation Setting and Vetting Seminar Competition Map Production Overview What step is this? After Permissions gained Overlaps with Armchair-setting and Mapping with OCAD Setting and Vetting Quick discussion on WARA map standards Characteristics of WARA events

Oct 2008Western Australian Rogaining Asscociation Setting and Vetting Seminar Competition Map Production Getting Your Map You need a map in electronic form. Re-using an area? You may have data, or it can be delivered very quickly from map archive. New Area? Provide grid references to Technical Officer. Who will order data from Landgate, and convert to OCAD using standard symbols. You wait. Could be several weeks.

Oct 2008Western Australian Rogaining Asscociation Setting and Vetting Seminar Competition Map Production Why OCAD? OCAD – Orienteering CAD Dominant program for orienteering/rogaining maps. By standardising: Standard symbol set developed (ongoing) Archive of maps in same format. Can be re-used by future setters. WARA “workflow” for web and newsletter uses OCAD. Commercial Printer understands OCAD. Using another CAD program may life easier for you, but not for other volunteers.

Oct 2008Western Australian Rogaining Asscociation Setting and Vetting Seminar Competition Map Production Getting Grid References From topographic map North East East Don’t give lats and longs!

Oct 2008Western Australian Rogaining Asscociation Setting and Vetting Seminar Competition Map Production Putting the Pieces Together You are given the components needed…

Oct 2008Western Australian Rogaining Asscociation Setting and Vetting Seminar Competition Map Production Hey Presto! And you will make… this afternoon…

Oct 2008Western Australian Rogaining Asscociation Setting and Vetting Seminar Competition Map Production Characteristics Characteristics of WARA Maps/Events 1:50,000 or 1:25,000 rarely A3 (24 and 12 hour) or A4 (most 6 hour events) Standards to abide by (no choice) Maximum of 72 controls – don’t have to use them all. Punch card is in rows of 6, each row must have same value – in case of power/computer failure. Control values are multiples of 10, from 10 to 100. The future Different numbering system. May become standard?

Oct 2008Western Australian Rogaining Asscociation Setting and Vetting Seminar Competition Map Production Making your map You will get a base map, and some 1-to-1 OCAD tuition. You don’t worry about standards – colours and line size for symbols. Done for you. Don’t change these. All you need to do is: Work out the map layout. Place the controls, patrolled roads & out-of-bounds on the map Crop out unwanted map data, add map attributes: Date, WARA website, scale, legend, logos, setters and vetters, farmer names (useful for future reference), possession statement… All listed in manual. During field work – make map corrections: new roads, dams, buildings. DEMONSTRATION

Oct 2008Western Australian Rogaining Asscociation Setting and Vetting Seminar Competition Map Production What Not to Include Internal farm fences. Not reliable. Farmers move these around. Data may be old. Bare rocks. Unreliable. May be a clearing. Unmapped bare rocks exist. Problem! Good teams will use the features like a street directory. Novice teams will make false assumptions and potentially go wrong. Your choice – WARA not prescriptive on this issue.

Oct 2008Western Australian Rogaining Asscociation Setting and Vetting Seminar Competition Map Production Getting The Map Printed Warn Bunbury Print 4 weeks before. Wait for close of entries (10 days before) The bulk of entries arrive in last days. Find out count of entrants and number of maps to make. Ask Technical Officer. Send OCAD file, special fonts, graphics to Bunbury Print by . Provide courier address for map delivery.

Oct 2008Western Australian Rogaining Asscociation Setting and Vetting Seminar Competition Map Production A Few More Things WARA can loan an A3 colour printer with “special” paper. Ask if you get stuck! Some aspects are tricky – particularly cropping and map layout.