Evaluation of IOF events maps
World Cup 2004, Dresden, Germany, 19-24 October


SPRINT maps - Map Commission's comments


The scale, the equidistance and the symbols of the qualification (Q: 1:4000/5 m) and final (F: 1:5000/2 m) maps are different.
Contour interval 5 meters is not allowed for a sprint map; 2 or 2.5 meters shall be used.

Generally most symbol sizes and symbols are wrong.
The model event (1:10000/5 m) called as a sprint/middle distance model, but there is no similarity to sprint events and terrains.
Qualification map problems
The building on Q maps are black (except the large one on the NW corner), on F maps are grey.
Railway: this is not ISSOM symbol (it is similar to the ISOM2000 symbol, but the thickness is wrong).
Unusual contours.
 
Different shades of brown are allowed [the (x+20)% rule], but not the way that is done in this map.
The barrier symbols (fence) are not thick enough.
Black path symbols are not allowed (only one is in the ISSOM).
Earth wall symbol is not used on sprint maps (this symbol is re-introduced in the final standard, ISSOM2005 valid from April 2005).
The passable stone wall symbol is to be used only in non-urban terrains.
Final map problems
Black line with regularly spaced semicircles is not an ISSOM symbol.
Is this supposed to be passable rock faces with regularly spaced outcrops?
Too thin passable rock face symbols, easy to confuse with path symbol.
The irregular black rectangle is not allowed to use as point symbol, this is an area symbol (boulder field: a minimum of two triangles shall be used).
 
Mysterious symbol (gate?).
Mysterious brown lines crossing roads, contours have to be visible on the roads.
North lines disappear under some features.
Fence mystery (if crossable - single tag - thin lines are used; if uncrossable - double tags - thick lines are used).
Contour lines mask out the outlines of the unpaved footpath symbol.