About me
I am 33. I started with orienteering when I was 9. The first o-map I made in 1992. Since 1999 I produce the maps on the professional level. Mapping is my occasional work as well as the specific type of relaxation.
I mapped in six European countries and China. My maps were used for Austrian, Czech, French, Slovenian and Spanish national championships, for world ranking and national competitions, MTBO and other races.
I have experience with different types of terrain and basemaps, including white sheet mapping.
My field is history of arts. I studied at Masaryk´s university in Brno, where I continue with PhD. My topic is "Phenomenon of German-Czech art in the 20th century [Mary Duras | Maxim Kopf | Oskar Spielmann]".
I work at the National institute for historical monuments in Liberec. I manage the documentation of movable cultural heritage in the Liberec region. Nature of my work allows me the occasional mapping.
Orienteering is a part of my life. Many of my friends are orienteers. I raced 19 years for orienteering club Tesla Brno. Since 2006 I am a member of VSK Slavia TU Liberec. In the youth classes I won three czech national championship (1992, 1993, 1995). In the period 2001-2003, I raced in the elite category and I am trying it without proper training unsuccessfully until now. I compete for fun.
Within the last 17 years I have participated on more than 60 mapping projects, in cooperation with more than 30 mapmakers. Most of my colleagues were good, some people didn't persuade me.
Every new mapping project is moving me far. Seven years ago I thought I can do the maps very well. It wasn´t true, of course. There is some way behind me now. I hope I understood something. I try to reduce non-important details to reach the better readability, what caused me as a member of so-called "Lenhart school" problems in the past.
There are coming GPS, LIDAR, UMPC, rangefinders. Classical mapping has new alternative. The technologyies help to eliminate the mistakes of classical measuring and make the work in the hard terrain more easy. To make a good map means still first of all to be sensitive and have a good eye for the contours. Vegetation is a question of the view. Clear, readable ocad drawing should go without saying.
Using new technologies could spare time in some phase of construction of the map and due this make the map cheaper generally. But the mapmaking still needs the time and the eternal delay of mapmakers seems to be neverending story.