Why not explore the possibilities of looking for ways to improve the currently very slow process of getting certified courses listed and filed? In the best time frame, courses have taken a minimum of 3 months to get listed. We can do better.
The decision for all east coast certifiers to send certificates and maps to an eastern vice chair is a good idea for that one additional review check. Then certificates and maps go on to a single source handling all work generated in both the east and west. How do we maintain a second review while speeding up the process?
The USATF Certified Course Search web site is a very valuable tool to local runners, http://www.usatf.org/events/courses/search/. How do we get courses listed there in a more timely fashion? The more current the information the more users will visit the site.
Streets and Trips is a nice inexpensive software to use. Maybe we should be looking at a course map submission process using Streets and Trips? Could there be a complimentary use of scanned maps with our current PDF measurement certificate? Is it possible to consider the thought of an online course measurement application?