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

Saturday, July 6, 2024

Zoom | 11:00 AM ET | 2.5 hrs | $60

Laying Out Your Map

In this tutorial style course you will practice adding new colours and symbols in the mapping software while adding key map elements to prepare your map for printing.

Details

Tags: Introductory | practical

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

*Times shown are in your local time.


Course Catalogue

Intermediate
Duration: 2.5 hrs Cost: $60.00 Level: Intermediate
theoretical

Every mapper has struggled with a map that for some reason doesn't align properly. Your different layers of base data aren't anywhere close to each other or you've shown up to do your fieldwork but your gps is several km from where it should be. This 2.5 hr course has been specifically designed to give you the knowledge to avoid these issues or troubleshoot them when they do arise. In the course you will learn all about coordinate reference systems, the earths magnetic field, declination, grid convergence, and grivation, and more.

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

Advanced
Duration: 6 hrs Cost: $120.00 Level: Advanced

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

In this class you will learn about the following:

  • Managing fieldwork
  • Reading the lidar
  • Minimum areas and gaps
  • Classification of objects
  • Concepts of priority and prominence
  • Correcting contours in the field

Upcoming dates:
Monday, August 12, 2024 | Calabogie, Ontario

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 dates:
Saturday, July 6, 2024 | Zoom