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

Monday, August 12, 2024

Calabogie, Ontario | 9:00 AM ET | 6 hrs | $132

Advanced Fieldwork

This 6 hour outdoor class will show participants some tips and strategies to use when doing fieldwork in large areas of forest/wilderness terrain.

Details

Tags: Advanced

Tuesday, August 13, 2024

Ottawa, Ontario (exact location tbc) | 9:00 AM ET | 6 hrs | $126

Introduction to Fieldwork

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

Details

Tags: Introductory | practical

See full calendar

*Times shown are in your local time.

Course Catalogue

Introductory
Duration: 2.5 hrs Cost: $60.00 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

Introductory
Duration: 2.5 hrs Cost: $60.00 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: 6 hrs Cost: $110.00 Level: Intermediate
theoretical practical OCAD

This in demand course takes place over two 3-hour sessions in the classroom. In the first session participants will learn how to use OCAD's lidar processing Wizard to turn raw lidar files into highly detailed base materials for orienteering mapping. In the second session students will learn about some basic lidar theory and spend more time learning how to interpret the various base material output by OCAD's lidar wizard.

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

See full catalogue