This was a number of years ago but I see it's still on the internet. It's a confusing course so this was the best I could do to clarify the route.
I created William and Mary's Cross Country course map. What do you think of it?
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Of the course or your map?
You should have chosen different colors for the map. Usually, when you are preparing a document with colors for publication, you want to run it through some color blindness filters to ensure the colors are distinguishable for most people. You used R/G which is the most common type of color blindness (~3% of people)
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idjendkdndnd wrote:
Of the course or your map?
You should have chosen different colors for the map. Usually, when you are preparing a document with colors for publication, you want to run it through some color blindness filters to ensure the colors are distinguishable for most people. You used R/G which is the most common type of color blindness (~3% of people)
Of the map. I didn't create the course itself.
Sounds like to failed the ADA compliance test.
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Why would a course like that need a map? Looks like you go a couple times around the perimeter of a series of fields.
I once ran there at a shorter course. Same exact deal, here's a bunch of fields, run around the perimeter.
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tidewater is dull flatland wrote:
Why would a course like that need a map? Looks like you go a couple times around the perimeter of a series of fields.
I once ran there at a shorter course. Same exact deal, here's a bunch of fields, run around the perimeter.
I suppose it's because the first loop is different from the others.
Was this the course you ran? The 5k?00 -
It may have been that. There was nothing remarkable enough to remember one flat set of fields from another.
Is the "state hospital" a mental hospital? If so, I remember that.
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Check out Penn State's course map. IMO it's a fail. I can't tell where to go starting after the 0.5 mile mark.
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It’s fine. On race day, courses are easy enough to figure out. Never bothered me.
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tidewater is dull flatland wrote:
It may have been that. There was nothing remarkable enough to remember one flat set of fields from another.
Is the "state hospital" a mental hospital? If so, I remember that.
Yeah I got interested when I saw that address but it's not the psych ward I was thinking out. The original building is at Colonial Williamsburg and is still in use as part of the art museum. They have some rooms devoted to the history as a mental hospital.
When I saw Eastern State Hospital I was thinking the course started there and somehow weaved through the Colonial Williamsburg area. That would have been markedly more interesting. I was thinking maybe it takes advantage of that maze behind the Governor's Palace.
Quite deflating when I looked closer at the map and realized the name Eastern State Hospital has been transferred to a totally different building a long way away.
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Great map, this is a lot better than the stuff I usually see. Congratulations!
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OK you asked for it:
-why have scale bar in meters, and then show mile markers? Seems you would want consistent units.
-the aerial is quite old, 2010 or earlier, based on Google earth history & buildings shown.
-the scale bar is quite a bit off, it indicates ~25% greater distance than actual
I suppose for its purpose, it works okay..
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