Recently, I was planning a not-too-wise east bay cross country hike, and I leaned pretty heavily on orienteering maps for planning purposes. Orienteering maps contain hyper-detailed information about vegetation, fences, drainage, and topography that is usually not available on even high quality trail maps (frequently simple because it is exceptionally difficult and time consuming to collect this information.) After finishing the hike, when I overlaid my route travelled on the map, the absurd ...
