File talk:Lewes castle west topo.jpg

Just finished having a go at throwing together this topo, not 100% sure about the routes though. I think most of the lines are correct except for the last two (17 and 18) which might be way off. Tom Dudley 00:15, 29 July 2010 (BST)

Good looking topo Tom!! Will check later but looks good so far! Actually, Rhea looks wrong... --Tim Hoddy 00:56, 29 July 2010 (BST)

Looks really good!! Shame the photo is a bit dark. How did you get the dashed lines on? All I have to work with is Paint :-( --Alan rosier 10:28, 29 July 2010 (BST)

Cheers guys. Funny you mention Rhea, I climbed that a few weeks ago and wasn't really sure where it went! (About 1/3 way off the ground I got got in a crucifix position with my left hand in a crack/groove and my right around an arete, then gained a bit of a sloping ramp. Then I traversed leftwards and up to where I found some mono pockets where there was some thin tat through a thread (think that was just left of the obvious bush in the photo) and went up the corner to a birds nest. I went via the small cave of isis and pulled over slightly to the right of it. Any of that sound familiar?)

I remember the route going up the ramp and then doing a short step left (bridge?) at the top of it. I think that there was a peg somewhere in the ramp that suggested that that was the way to go. I also think that I finished right of where you have put it; i.e. just left of LSA. However, I could well be wrong, particularly on this last point. --Tim Hoddy 12:29, 29 July 2010 (BST)

As for making the topo, I used Paint.net - http://www.getpaint.net/ (it's free and the EULA says you can use it for commercial use). --Tom Dudley 11:34, 29 July 2010 (BST)

Great I'll get that. --Alan rosier 11:47, 29 July 2010 (BST)

One thing which was quite annoying about Paint.net was it limits you to 4 anchor points when creating a line, so if the route moves about a bit its quite hard to get it spot on (or you need to use multiple lines which starts to look messy). I've had a look about and found a vector program called Inkscape which seems to suit the role a bit better: http://www.inkscape.org/?lang=en&css=css/base.css --Tom Dudley 14:27, 29 July 2010 (BST)

Did you use >4 anchor points on this file? If you did It doesn't show. --Alan rosier 14:32, 29 July 2010 (BST)

In case you don't get on with either of these packages, OpenOffice will do this sort of thing with its drawing package. OpenOffice also does M$ Word files --> Wiki markup. --Tim Hoddy 15:27, 29 July 2010 (BST)

My computer was too old to use paint.net but I could download inkscape. A very powerful package, I like it. I just have to learn how to use t now. ;-) --Alan rosier 09:09, 30 July 2010 (BST)

I'm removing this topo as some of the routes marked are incorrectly drawn. E.g, Rhea doesn't follow the line on this topo. I've knocked-up a quick (correct but incomplete) topo and will upload it to the page... --Tim Hoddy (talk) 14:03, 30 June 2013 (BST)