Micro Mapping for Kayakers The Last Frontier

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Micro? Mapping for Kayakers(The Last Frontier)

• Nick Tasker,

UK Hydrographic Office
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Society of Cartographers September 2008
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Cabaret
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Why attend SoC?

• To promote a high standard of cartographic
  illustration
• To share techniques and ideas
• To gain new perspectives on mapping
• To reveal the secret of Map design according to
  Des Holden

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PDAs for Kayakers?

• User environment
• Ergonomics
• Ease of use
• Scale limitations/situational awareness
• Great for showing where you are, sometimes
• Reliability

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Typical kayak maps

• Three distinct user groups
• Touring
• White water and
• Sea

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Route Cards
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Self Service Mapping

• Neither OS nor UKHO map non tidal rivers
  effectively for kayakers
• Right to access in Scotland
• Some rights to navigate in England Wales (not
  the same as access!)

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Self Service Mapping
Disadvantages
Advantages

• Speed of data capture
• Cheap
• Achieved by practitioners
• Includes local knowledge

• Hard to control
• Hard to maintain standardisation
• Reliability (grading)
• Non cartographers drawing with paddles

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Self Service Mapping

• Wikiproject Open white water Mapping
• Harry Wood, Jonathan Riddell, et al
• OpenStreetMap base data

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Harry Wood Extreme Mapping
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Colour coded river grading using Kosmos rendering
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Wikiproject - Coverage

• Some rivers in UK
• Several in Europe
• Few elsewhere
• Volunteers welcome.

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Proposed iconography

• Put-in
• Egress (take out)
• In and out
• Rapids
• Hazard
• Weir
• Campsite

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White water - To Do list

• better put-in/egress icons
• Develop seal launch icon
• Standardise iconography
• highlight rivers over roads
• show section grade tags
• automatic update from OSM
• better river data, get mapping!

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Complexities of coastal v. river
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Design issues for small user group mapping

• Smaller user samples
• Larger risk of rogue needs
• Extended market v. risk of over compromise
• High demands from user group after you deliver

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User requirements

• Hard copy rather than digital
• Micro sheet size (what is Micro?)
• Robust/long lasting
• Waterproof
• Easy to read
• Updateable
• Floating!

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• 100 Waterproof
• Robust Durable
• Simple to update
• Easy to read
• Good coverage

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• A3 Format
• Plastic Spiral Bound
• Wipe clean surface
• Portfolio approach

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When mapping for minorities, cover the most
popular areas first to maximise your returns and
generate the funding for future expansion
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• Individually schemed
• Typical coverage includes 20 sheets
• Planning charts _at_ 1125,000
• Mid scale Channel crossings and natural
  boundaries
• Harbour approaches _at_ 1 5,000

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Looking back..

• Difficult environment to map well
• Plenty of scope for new design
• Growing market

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Links

• http//wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/WikiProjec
  t_Whitewater_Maps
• http//www.canoekayak.co.uk