Adding colour ...Read the rubric !!!
In my opinion, slope is much easier to figure out when line width changes than when the color value does. The color at A is darker than the color at B - but can you quantify how much darker? And can you do it as easily as you can tell how much wider the line is it at A vs B? Speed and ease of understanding are, I think, particularly important given how the maps are to be used. I am told that these will be read by people who don’t even stop their bikes while reading the map (I don’t really know anything about biking - I’m not usually permitted outside the confines of the UW Cartography Lab). So, the map has to work when they’re not looking closely or long at it. The second advantage of line widths over something like color variations is that line widths are more robust - they won’t vary according to lighting conditions, as the users bike in and out of the shade of trees and in varying levels of cloud cover.(although he also mentions the upsides!)
Just become a better climber and the hills will not worry you !!! ;D
Just become a better climber and the hills will not worry you !!! ;D
Indeed. I used to actively avoid hilly rides, or even look for routes around hills. I've cured myself by entering hillier and hillier rides. I'm still a rubbish climber, but I'm improving and at least I know I can get up the things eventually.
Before LEL 2005 I deliberately did the K&SW 600 as it was "the most diffficult" for climbing 600km in the UK
Fortunately I made it round in time and I have never been bothered by any threatened so called "hilly rides" since
I'm afraid you've missed the calendar event of the K&SW 600 but I'm sure IanH has a stack of perm cards just waiting for you
Great idea, but I'd prefer a colour tone representation too.
It looks like the Midland Super Grimpeur was a ride of two halves. I like the little tour of South America you did in the bottom loop.