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

Thursday, November 20, 2025

Zoom | 7:30 PM ET | 2.5 hrs

Starting a map project

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 | PRIVATE | theoretical

Thursday, December 4, 2025

Zoom | 7:30 PM ET | 2.5 hrs

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 | PRIVATE

Thursday, December 11, 2025

Zoom | 7:30 PM ET | 2.5 hrs

Generating Basic Contours

In this course you will learn how to use free software (Karttapullautin) to generate smoothed contours you can import and use directly in your map projects.

Details

Tags: Intermediate | PRIVATE

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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

Intermediate
Duration: 3 hrs Cost: $75.00 Level: Intermediate

This 3-hour course is all about using OCAD’s lidar processing wizard to turn raw lidar files into highly detailed base materials for orienteering mapping. Students will get a walk through of the tool and a chance to practice using it. The second half of the class will focus on learning how to interpret the various base material output by the lidar wizard.

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
practical OOM

Just want to thank you for the workshop last night. I feel much more confident about maybe being able to make some local park maps.

Angela

This 2.5 hour online course is part 2 of Navigation Sports' introdction to Orienteering Mapping course. In it, you will learn how to use the Open Orienteering Mapper drawing tools. Participants will spend the majority of the class practicing using the software.

In this module you will practice the following:

  • Using basic drawing tools
  • Using shape manipulation tools
  • Tracing base material

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