Interpreting Lidar/Contour Drawing (Day 4)

Interpreting Lidar/Contour Drawing (Day 4)

Location: Zoom Date: Thursday, March 19, 2026 Time: 7:00 PM Eastern Time Session Length: 3 hrs Total Length: 12 hrs Cost: $245.00
Intermediate practical

Course Description

This course teaches participants how to interpret lidar data and draw contours and other features from various layers of lidar information. Over the course of four 3hr sessions you will learn about the following topics:

  • Day 1: Intro to contours and bezier curves
  • Day 2: Reading lidar contours and drawing orienteering contours
  • Day 3: Interpreting lidar data and more drawing contours
  • Day 4: Drawing non-contour features and contours in sprint maps

Additional Information

This class will be taught by Jeff Teutsch.

This calendar entry is for day 4 of this four-day course. Each day is 3 hours long including a break to get up and stretch in the middle. 

The four days of this course take place on Wednesdays throughout March:

  • Day 1: Tuesday, March 10th at 3pm Pacific, 6pm Eastern Time
  • Day 2: Thursday, March 12th at 3pm Pacific, 6pm Eastern Time
  • Day 3: Tuesday, March 17th at 3pm Pacific, 6pm Eastern Time
  • Day 4: Thursday, March 19th at 3pm Pacific, 6pm Eastern Time

Coming Prepared

This course is intended to be software independent so you can either of the following options:

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

OCAD, which is a paid subscription mapping software. Students that wish to use OCAD will have access to a classroom license. 

That said, this class will use base material processed from lidar in OCAD (OOM does not have that functionality). 

Participants should have experience using one of the two mapping softwares or have previously participated in a Using Open Orienteering Mapper course or Using OCAD course. 

Using Zoom
A zoom link will be provided to registered participants by email. Please be set up 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

Cost: $245.00 + tax

Please note there is an online processing fee on top of the advertised price.

This is a four-day class with no option to just sign up for a single day. This registration covers all days.

This course is designed for folks with at least some experience drawing maps. Participants with little or no experience drawing maps will likely get frustrated practicing drawing nice smooth contours during the class. If you are wondering if this course is for you, you can email jeff@navigationsports.ca. About a week prior the start of the class we will send out a quick questionnaire asking about your orienteering and mapping experience and what you want to get out of the class to help us tailor our teaching for you.

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