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Canadian Orienteering Championships 2007 in Saskatchewan

One of our most challenging mapping last year was in Saskatchewan, Canada. The basemap looked at first sight very detailed so we thought in four mappers that should be maximum 14 days of fieldwork. At the end it took us more than three weeks to map the Nisbett Forest. This…
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terrain is also venue of the Canadian Championships 2007 - Middle and Long. And I believe it is going to be very exciting event. Why? A lot of contour details, in most parts very good runnability however low visibility. It looks in almost every place of the map very similar. So if you once loose contact with map (and that is likely as the running speed should be high) it is going to be very difficult to find the way again.Some statistics:total area 6.5 km2green area 2.5 km2open area 1.2 km2marshes 0.6 km2contour interval 2.5 mcontours 358 kmsincluding 40 kms…

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