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

Tuesday, January 20, 2026

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

Intro to Mapping

This 2.5 hour online module will teach participants what you need to know to set up your first mapping project to modern mapping standards.

Details

Tags: Introductory | OOM | practical | theoretical

Thursday, January 22, 2026

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

Intro to Mapping

This 2.5 hour online module will teach participants what you need to know to set up your first mapping project to modern mapping standards.

Details

Tags: Introductory | OCAD | practical | theoretical

Tuesday, January 27, 2026

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

Using Open Orienteering Mapper

In this course, you will learn how to use the Open Orienteering Mapper drawing tools. Participants will spend the majority of the class practicing using the software.

Details

Tags: Introductory | OOM | practical

Thursday, January 29, 2026

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

Using Ocad

In this course, you will learn how to use the Ocad drawing tools. Participants will spend the majority of the class practicing using the software.

Details

Tags: Introductory | OCAD | practical

Tuesday, February 3, 2026

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

Base Material

This 2.5 hour online module will teach partipants how to include various sources of data that will make your map better and your mapping easier.

Details

Tags: Introductory | OOM | practical | theoretical

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Course Catalogue

Introductory

Duration: 6 hrs Cost: $95.00 Level: Introductory

practical

This 6 hour module will teach participants the basics of fieldwork. This module has both classroom and field components.

In this module you will practice the following:

Preparing your project for fieldwork
Using the software and hardware for fieldwork
Making decisions in the field:
- Generalisation
- Classification of features
- Locating features
Post-fieldwork drawing

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 1 of Navigation Sports' Introduction to Orienteering Mapping course. In it, you will learn what you need to know to set up your first mapping project to modern mapping standards.

This module is mix of learning about foundational topics and tutorial-style practice. You will learn about a variety of topics that will make your first project (and all future projects) better, easier, and more rewarding while assembling your first project! Topics include:

Basic mapping concepts: Working with data, drawing maps, fieldwork, base map layers / templates, etc.
Common orienteering mapping software; OCAD or Open Orienteering Mapper (OOM)*
Georeferencing
Declination
Sourceing and using Open Data
How to get aerial photos using SAS Planet

* Instances of this course will focus either on OCAD or OOM.

The Using Open Orienteering Mapper or Using OCAD, Introduction to Fieldwork, and Laying out Your Map modules will allow you to take the project you start in this course to completion. See our course catalogue for more.

Upcoming dates:
Tuesday, January 20, 2026 | Zoom
Thursday, January 22, 2026 | Zoom

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 dates:
Tuesday, March 10, 2026 | Zoom
Thursday, March 12, 2026 | Zoom
Tuesday, March 17, 2026 | Zoom

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