The scale of the mapping problem
Last autumn, CLOK staged a district event on one of our traditional areas - Eston Nab. The post event comments on the club bulletin board included some rather scathing comments about the map. Now having remapped/redrawn the map for one day of the October Odyssey back in the 1980's, where I was required to use the scale of 1:15,000 (because it was a badge event), when most people thought 1:10,000 was more appropriate, I have personally been on the receiving end of rather sharp critiscm of the map. Nowadays, unless there is something major being held, it is usual for the event planner and controller to make small changes to the map, so no one person puts their name down as responsible. Instead, the 'club' gets the flack, or rather, the mapping committee. The thing about this area is that the minor paths and gorse patches are prone to frequent change - it only takes half a dozen youths on scramble bikes to create a new path, or some youths with matches to clear some gorse bush...