Map issue point

One of the orienteers

Second day of EUOC's Big Orienteering weekend. I wasn't feeling to broken after yesterday so did the classic long distance on Holyrood park. I have orienteered enough here that I don't need to navigate, just run to the control site. 

One controversial topic was at the start of my course. It was a punching start, then the purple tag is the map issue point. Then there is a taped route to the start flag. You "should" have to go to the start flag. Looking at the location of #1 this seems like not the optimal route...