Laying Out Your Map

Laying Out Your Map

Location: Zoom Date: Saturday, July 6, 2024 Time: 11:00 AM Eastern Time Length: 2.5 hrs Cost: $60
Introductory practical

Course Description

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.

Additional Information

This class will work in Open Orienteering Mapper.


Coming Prepared

This course uses Open Orienteering Mapper (OOM), which is a free mapping software. You can download it at https://www.openorienteering.org/apps/mapper/.

Participants should have previously participated in a Using Open Orienteering Mapper course or have previous experience mapping with Open Orienteering Mapper.

Participants have the choice of working with files provided by the instructor or their own files. If you are bring your own files make sure you have the following easily accessible:

  • Map file in OOM format
  • Club or other map owner logo file in jpg or png format
  • Definition of the key colours for font and border that you want to use

Using Zoom
A Zoom link will be provided to registered participants by email. Please be set up and ready to go for the start of the class with working audio and the software downloaded and installed so we don't have to take precious course time to sort that out.

Please participate from a laptop or desktop computer so you can use the software as intended. We strongly recommend you connect to Zoom from a second device so you can follow the instructor on Zoom while using your computer to practice the skills being presented.


Registration

This class is in the past. Registration is not available.