Courses

Want to learn how to make orienteering maps? We offer an ever-expanding catalogue of introductory and professional development style courses. Check out our calendar and catalogue below.

Can't find what you're looking for or want a specific course offered for your club? Email jeff@navigationsports.ca

Upcoming Offerings

Monday, February 9, 2026

Zoom | 6:30 PM ET | 2.5 hrs | $67.50 CAD

Laying Out Your Map

In this tutorial style course you will practice adding new colours and symbols in the mapping software while adding key map elements to prepare your map for printing.

Details

Tags: Introductory | OCAD | practical

Tuesday, February 10, 2026

Zoom | 6:30 PM ET | 2.5 hrs | $67.50 CAD

Laying Out Your Map

In this tutorial style course you will practice adding new colours and symbols in the mapping software while adding key map elements to prepare your map for printing.

Details

Tags: Introductory | OOM | practical

Thursday, February 12, 2026

Zoom | 6:30 PM ET | 2.5 hrs | $67.50 CAD

Laying Out Your Map

In this tutorial style course you will practice adding new colours and symbols in the mapping software while adding key map elements to prepare your map for printing.

Details

Tags: Introductory | OCAD | practical

Tuesday, March 3, 2026

Zoom | 6:30 PM ET | 2.5 hrs | $67.50 CAD

Karttapullautin

In this course you will learn how to use free software (Karttapullautin) to generate smoothed contours you can import and use directly in your map projects.

Details

Tags: Intermediate

Thursday, March 5, 2026

Zoom | 6:00 PM ET | 3 hrs | $80.00 CAD

Processing Lidar for Fieldwork (using OCAD)

In this course you will how to use OCAD’s lidar processing wizard to turn lidar into detailed base material for drawing contours and seeing other details in the terrain.

Details

Tags: Intermediate

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Course Catalogue

Introductory

Duration: 2.5 hrs Cost: $67.50 Level: Introductory

practical

This 2.5 hour online course is part 4 of Navigation Sports' Introduction to Orienteering Mapping course. In it, you will practice adding new colours and symbols in the mapping software while adding key map elements to prepare your map for printing.

This module is set-up as a tutorial-style practice. Participants will also be provided with a take-away reference to use in future projects.

* Instances of this course will use either OCAD or OOM.

Upcoming dates:
Monday, February 9, 2026 | Zoom
Tuesday, February 10, 2026 | Zoom
Thursday, February 12, 2026 | Zoom

Intermediate

Duration: 2.5 hrs Cost: $60.00 Level: Intermediate

theoretical

Every mapper has struggled with a map that for some reason doesn't align properly. Your different layers of base data aren't anywhere close to each other or you've shown up to do your fieldwork but your gps is several km from where it should be. This 2.5 hr course has been specifically designed to give you the knowledge to avoid these issues or troubleshoot them when they do arise. In the course you will learn all about coordinate reference systems, the earths magnetic field, declination, grid convergence, and grivation, and more.

Upcoming classes: There are no scheduled classes. If you would like to request a class, email jeff@navigationsports.ca

Introductory

Duration: 2.5 hrs Cost: $67.50 Level: Introductory

theoretical practical

This 2.5 hour online course is part 3 of Navigation Sports' Introduction to Orienteering Mapping course. In it, you will learn how to find and import various types of data into your map and as base layers. You will learn how to import official orthophotos as base layers and spend time practicing drawing your map from those images and data.

* Instances of this course will use either OCAD or OOM.

Upcoming classes: There are no scheduled classes. If you would like to request a class, email jeff@navigationsports.ca

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