Aged 19 at the time of preparing the map, Dom Dakin, had only previously produced one park map of c.0.2 sq km and some infilling of small areas on other maps. It was his initiative to map this area and the production in 2020 of the new principally urban map of Lodge Moor, Fulwood and Redmires Prisoner of War camp was a very significant step in mapping. The Lodge Moor map itself is c.1.5 sq km. 

Lodge Moor was first used as a new area and map on 16 September 2020 and was used again on 4 November for South Yorkshire Orienteers Club training night (c.80 people inc coaches). From a qualitative viewpoint, competitors found the map easy to read and a good and fair representation of both the urban and non-urban terrain. 

Dom has used LIDAR contours on the map, but at 5m rather than 2.5m because of the height difference on the full area - 2.5m contours would have been excessive.  

The map is basically to ISSprOM 2019 although some flexibility was taken as it had to interface with the larger Sheffield City map which is still very much to ISSOM 2007. The actual map used for the event was extracted from the Sheffield City map and the opportunity was taken with the standalone map to update the specification and delete unused symbols and colours.  

Magnetic north is 0 degrees (which was guidance given to Dom by the South Yorkshire Orienteers Mapping Officer) as magnetic north is currently only 1 degree west of grid north and is moving east at about 1 degree every 7 years so it should only reach 1 degree east of grid north by c.2034. So, 0 degrees is accurate enough for orienteering (particularly urban) and avoids having to rotate the map and do a new layout for the next 12-14 years. 

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Well done also to the runner-up, Mark Light (Southampton Orienteering Club) for the map of Farley Mount. Mark is relatively new to the sport and has embraced the mapping side of things. Mark is Southampton Orienteering Club's Mapping Officer and has done valuable work indexing and arranging for the safe storage of our maps. He has also updated and extended the map of Farley Mount, which is close to where he lives. 

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Thank you to all who submitted nominations for British Orienteering's Annual Awards this year. 

Many congratulations!

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British Orienteering looks forward to continuing with this 'In the Spotlight' online celebration tomorrow with the following...

The winner and runners-up of the Continued Contribution to Orienteering Award (New for 2021) Award at 10:00 tomorrow morning (Wednesday 20 April). 

Tomorrow afternoon, British Orienteering will be shining the spotlight on the winner and runners-up of the Silva Award - for significant services over the years to 'field' activities at 14:00.