GREEN MOUNTAIN RELAY LEG MAPS

Paul Petersen of MarathonGIS prepared the maps for the Green Mountain Relay. Paul is not only a talented cartographer, but also an excellent runner who has participated in relay events.

From Paul: " These maps were created through Geographic Information Systems (GIS), which enables capture, management, and analysis of all forms of geographically referenced information. The primary software suite used was ESRI ArcGIS, which is the industry standard for desktop GIS. This GIS-based approach to map creation gives a huge advantage over other software and cartographic methods in that the maps are composed of individual layers in a geographic database, and can support an array of queries, analyses, and on-the-fly editing. The end result is a series of maps, elevation profiles, and 3D animations that are integrated from the same database, which ensures maximum accuracy, consistency, expandability, and ease-of-use. The course route itself was digitized from high-resolution aerial photography, and the profiles were extracted from the digitized route overlain on a 10-meter Digital Elevation Model. Although all geographic data has error associated with it, using this layer-based GIS approach minimizes error and ensures the best accuracy possible for the course route and profiles."

Every attempt was made to make the maps as accurate as possible.

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Last updated 9/26/2007