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20080515-2300
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Nomeland on his leg at Tio Mila
Arild Nomeland ran the 2nd leg at Tio Mila for Kristiansand OKs winning team and wrote about it at the KOK elite blog.
Here is a rough translation of a bit of what he wrote:
I was with a pack of 6-7 teams on the way to the start triangle. I decided to run the left route choice on trails in order to get a safe and good start. None of the teams around me went that way. I have to say that my
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----14.05.2008----
20080514-2300
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Another look at some terrain using lidar
I spent a bit more time playing with lidar data.
This image is pretty interesting. You can see the stream and ditch beds. The scale, by the way, was inadvertently cut off. Each tick mark on the bar scale is 50 meters. One of the more interesting features that shows up in the DEM is a line that runs straight east-west across the lower part of the image. That line is an old stone wall.
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20080513-2300
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Everest climb documentary
Instead of writing something, I spent most of the evening glued to the TV watching a PBS documentary about climbing Everest (You can apparently watch the entire program online at the link).
Back to okansas.blogspot.com.
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----12.05.2008----
20080512-2300
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Ice vests
I spent some time this weekend in front of the TV watching the Giro dItalia bike race. The Slipstream-Chippotle team won the team time trial. According to an article in Velonews, part of the secret was warming up with ice vests.
Then Lim pulled out his secret weapon: white vests filled with ice that riders donned to keep their core temperature low and allow the legs to warm up without
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20080510-2000
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A Swedish comparison of lidar and O' maps
A comparison of a lidar basemap and an orienteering map from Sweden:
The image is from Erik Zanders paper on lidar as a method for producing orienteering maps. The paper is in Swedish, but has some nice graphics that compare the data he got from lidar to an orienteering map of the same area. Here is the PDF file.
Reading Zanders paper inspired me to play around with some local lidar data.
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----09.05.2008----
20080509-2300
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Urban Basketball?
I came across this map today:
It is from Urb-O, which seems to be a way to begin to introduce kids to orienteering. You can see a short video.
I also came across a Norwegian newspaper story about the event. Since Google Translate just added Swedish and Norwegian, it seemed like a good opportunity for a test. Here is a bit of the article translated by Google:
Urb-o stands for Urban
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