[mch2021-terrain] State of the field

[Bart de Waal]

Hi all,

It was nice seeing you all yesterday! Thanks for your hospitality Niene :)

Ruud mentioned it might be good to have a look at how the field responds 
to the rain, so I had a look today. I didn't go into the southwest of 
the field as they were actively building up there and I didn't want to 
get into that. But I had a walk around the rest of the terrain.

For future reference: we had a big storm 2 days ago.

It's a grassy field, and the recent storm was heavy, so obviously there 
were bits of mud and small puddles around all over. There were quite a 
few muddy holes formed from heavy machinery tracks.

There were two big areas that we might want to avoid for anything too 
high traffic, the north west and the bit between the path and the hills 
on the southeast.

The "tractor pull tracks" weren't actually that bad. There were a few 
muddy bits, but really not that bad, but most of it was drier and more 
solid that the field. I didn't leave footprints outside the mud.

In addition, the areas around the bridge were really muddy. Someone (I 
assume liquicity) but down grass mats to cover up the mud. It was better 
than nothing, but not super effective. Maybe it will improve before the 
festival starts.

I've attached a sketch. Red means muddy, blue means hills. Obviously, 
this is a crayon sketch. Openstreetmap data really isn't good enough for 
our purposes. I'm very interested to see what data is available, because 
I want to figure out how much of our own surveying we're going to have 
to do.

I took a bunch of GPS tagged pictures, both of the terrain and of 
puddles. Should I dump these somewhere? Maybe this is a good resource, 
both for our own memory and for other teams.

Bart



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