One thing that I figured out only after I got home and downloaded my GPS track, is how come I got so confused in the NW corner of Sunday's Long course. And I remember there were many other folks standing around me, maybe puzzled the same way I was. If you look at this
map detail, you'll see two man-made structures in the blue squares. Both have something of a spur-like feature going N or NW. Myself and many others were in the vicinity of the out-of-bounds man-made structure (the southern blue box). I didn't have my reading glasses nor a magnifying lens, so it was hard for me to see the symbol in the southern blue box when it was also mixed with the magenta vertical lines (out-of-bounds symbol), and was convinced I was instead in the vicinity of the man-made structure in the northern blue box.
I guess the question I am rising is whether is it a good practice to place out-of-bounds vertical lines in close proximity to control locations, when there is the risk of reduced map readability. Would have a thick magenta line indicating the border been sufficient to indicate where the out-of-bounds area was ?
but then, on the other hand, in the map for
Raccoongaine, there will be copious amounts of vertical lines surrounding the perimeter of the event area, after we found out that a couple of participants in past events completely strayed into farmer's fields, claiming they never saw the single line border symbol we had in the first map.