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Having been to Westendorf in the Ski Welt this January and finding the piste map appalling is the area just too big to fit it all on one map? Westendorf tourist office produce a a-z booklet with a map of just the local area in it. This was better but didn't match the Ski Welt map!
The lift co's idea seems to be to plaster the area with thousands of the crap maps. Hundreds of the things at all the offices and lift stations, instead of producing a better map.
Any suggestions? (Apart from telling me to get better at reading maps!)
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Having been to Westendorf in the Ski Welt this January and finding the piste map appalling is the area just too big to fit it all on one map? Westendorf tourist office produce a a-z booklet with a map of just the local area in it. This was better but didn't match the Ski Welt map!
The lift co's idea seems to be to plaster the area with thousands of the crap maps. Hundreds of the things at all the offices and lift stations, instead of producing a better map.
Any suggestions? (Apart from telling me to get better at reading maps!) |
Getting better at reading them wouldn't help much, since they are indeed as poor as you say.
I'm not sure it is because the area is so big though. I think it is partly because the lifts and slopes go in all directions, which does make it difficult to represent in 2 dimensions, and partly just that it hasn't been done as well as it could be.
It probably wouldn't be much use having separate maps for each village either, since Westendorf is the only one which is almost isolated from te rest of the area.
At least the signposting is mostly pretty good nowadays, and so if you know which lift you want, you can just follow a piste with that number on it.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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We did work out to ski to lifts rather than by pistes. Which is fine until the a and b variants of a run go to different places. Maybe the crap map is a sneaky plan by the lift co to get people to keep going back.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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For next winter piste numbers have been added to the SkiWelt piste map. Whether that will help or just make things even more confusing, I'm not sure! For those who are more modern than me, the SkiWelt also makes available applications for mobile phones (= handys in German terminology).
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Result  Piste numbers and even a fair few direction arrows on the piste map. Hopefully signage on the mountains will agree with the map.
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Surely the answer is to produce 'proper' maps with lifts and pistes marked on them. I know that you can get one for Sella Ronda. Are there any others published?
Why are skiers judged to be too dim to read a map properly? In the rest of life we seem to be able to cope, do we all get stupid when we head out on skis?
Resorts could still produce their pretty pictures for publicity purposes, but for skiing I would much prefer maps with contour lines, where the orientation of the slope is obvious, as is which way is 'down'.
I have a copy of the Which Where to Ski guide from 1995. That had proper maps in it. More of the same please.
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I found this map (http://www.bavarianskiclub.com/SkiWelt%20LARGE%20map.jpg ) with a googly of 'ski welt piste map' on Google images with the 'Large' image filter selected.
It's enormous. The runs even have arrows in congested areas or when the direction might be unclear.
Last edited by You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net. on Fri 3-09-10 15:24; edited 1 time in total
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would it not be easier to read if it were swung round 90 degrees to the left so looking at it side on, rather than length on?
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