I hope everyone who was there got a chance to see Dave's "40 years of orienteering and mapping in Centennial Park" display; it contained the history of mapping in Centennial Park from 1972 to now with some copies of older versions of the map. Very interesting indeed. A big thanks to Dave for his efforts on this display!
Here is a copy of the President's speech in celebration of 40 years of orienteering and mapping in Centennial Park:
"Centennial Park was one of the first areas used for orienteering in NSW and way back in those early days black and white maps were of course the standard.
The first map dates back to 1972 - so 40 years ago - and was prepared by Dave and used in April of that same year for a night event. Initially Bennelong and Kareelah Orienteers used the first versions of the map.
With the formation of Uringa in 1973 the decision was made to produce a better map and photogrammetry from Chris Wilmott and Steve Key, and their fieldwork, resulted in the 1979 version which was used in the same year for the first NSW School Champs.
The next redraws took place in the late eighties and 1990, with the latter version lasting for 10 years due to the fact that printing took place in batches of thousand !!
With the coming of OCAD, Mike Andreson redrew the map on OCAD in 2000 with some additional fieldwork. More revisions took place in the following years and this brings us to the latest versions # 13 & 14. With plans of a permanent course, a complete remap took place in 2011 and today it was on the latest version, #14, that we orienteered on and it is also the version the permanent course is based on.
So here we are today, celebrating 40 years of orienteering and mapping in this beautiful park which has now culminated with the implementation of the Centennial Parklands Permanent orienteering course.
I have to say, it was a really exciting project to be part of and to finally see it completed is really great ; you might have seen a marker or two out there today, and hopefully you agree that they look great.
Five different organisations came together for this project and achieved what we all hope will be a successful new activity in the park, and will bring orienteering to a wider public.
Uringa worked very closely of course with OANSW in particular Barbara Hill, and the Centennial Parklands organisation. The markers were created and concreted into the control sites by Conservation Volunteers, and finally the funding was provided/approved by Centennial Parklands Foundation.
I hope we can continue the great collaboration with Centennial Park and on a personal note I would like to thank Dave in particular for all his input and help with setting/checking the courses and control sites of the permanent course, and of course the mapping over the last years. And also a big THANK YOU to every Uringa member who has set courses, organised and helped out at our events which have been held here over all these years."
PS: cake supplied by Aldo's sister Rose!
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