Category: Not a map

Graphics I have made which aren’t actually maps

How to create courses for a conventional bushland orienteering event using OCAD, Purple Pen, MapRun and a new utility to convert Purple Pen courses to MapRun courses

THIS POST IS OUT OF DATE – PURPLE PEN NOW OUPUTS DIRECTLY TO KML

The problem with using MapRun under bush canopy is that control sites cannot be seen on Google Earth. They have to be precisely GPS way-pointed on the ground in order to be reliably used in MapRun. In addition MapRun is better suited to score or scatter events than to line events.

Here is my document describing my approach after running a number of events like this. (The software is not yet available for download but I’m happy to do the conversion for you.)

Here is my post about super accurate GPS waypointing.

Bicentennial National Trail Book 6 GPX and KMZ Files

Here are fairly accurate plots of the trail shown in my BNT Book 6 maps as KMZ and GPX.

Note the following:

  • Nothing here is approved by the BNT organisation
  • Parts of these trails travel through private land, nothing here gives you permission to enter that land, you need to join the BNT and read Book 6
  • In many places the trail nominally follows a surveyed road casement BUT in fact is outside that for a small or substantial distance
  • You should get BNT membership, buy Book 6 from the BNT organisation and read the notes before travelling on any of this trail
  • The alignment of the BNT changes very often, this may be out of date