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

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Course Catalogue

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 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

Intermediate
Duration: 2.5 hrs Cost: $67.50 Level: Intermediate

This 2.5 hour online course teaches participants how to use Karttapullautin to generate exploratory orienteering maps (also often called auto-generated maps) from lidar. Karttapullautin generates contours and other landform features as well as an orienteering style base map. In this class you will learn the basics of using the software as well as how to adjust the settings to optimize the output.

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

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