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Here is a typical birthday party map. It is made by pace counting and drawing. How detailed we make it depends on its purpose. Inside events, yard maps, classrooms, corporate settings, and park maps all vary according to the needs of the event.
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| Young children require few details and large familiar features that they can relate to, while adults' abilities demand complicated, difficult, and larger maps. How much time the event will take also factors into the cartography. Each map is unique. | 
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Most people are familiar with this USGS version that was created from inferior aerial photos. There are a lot more features in the landscape than this map would lead you to believe. Learning about maps from this common topography map is difficult and confusing. There's not much here to relate to except for roads and mountains. |
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Aahhh...everybody loves an aerial photo. Kids get excited about these in the classroom. They are also great for a complicated hunt requiring that clues be found by examining these pictures. Remember, this is NOT a map. |
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An Orienteering Map!! |
These are digitized maps using all of the above techniques: aerials, topos and hand drawing. We use software created to make these maps. Every man-made and natural feature is included by the cartographer. Boulders, fences, fields and vegetation are carefully drawn. The use of a compass is secondary to being able to relate to what is in the landscape.
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Orienting the map, using your EYES, and trusting yourself are only a few of the benefits of learning to read these maps. Listen to the kids 'think out loud' in the Arthur video and you'll see what I mean.
We have just finished re-mapping Central Park (March 2004) for
a commercial project!! You will hear about it in the news. It was
published in the international Orienteering magazine: O-Sport from
Eastern Europe!!
Central Park Maps for sale now!
You will receive a full color, laminated and folded map with circles
on it that you must use in the park in order to answer the questions
on the map. Answering the questions is easy if you are standing in
the right spot!! Directions about how to play and collect your
treasure as well as lots of useful information about orienteering is
printed around the map. If you buy it from Ultimate Treasure Hunts,
you get free shipping!! We are mapping other unique parks around the
country.....Boston, Chicago, San Francisco...maybe yours? Send Check for $9.95 to.....
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