Courses

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

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

Intermediate
Duration: 12 hrs Cost: $245.00 Level: Intermediate
practical

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

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

Intermediate
Duration: 3 hrs Cost: $80.00 Level: Intermediate

This 3 hour class teaches participants how to use OCAD's DEM Import Wizard to turn lidar data into useable base map layers and contours. Participants will learn how to set up the various outputs along with the various information you can get from them:

  • hill shade
  • slope gradient
  • contours
  • feature map
  • vegetation height map
  • vegetation base map

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