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, February 12, 2026

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

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 | OCAD | practical

Tuesday, March 3, 2026

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

Karttapullautin

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

Thursday, March 5, 2026

Zoom | 6:00 PM ET | 3 hrs | $80.00 CAD

Processing Lidar for Fieldwork (using OCAD)

In this course you will how to use OCAD’s lidar processing wizard to turn lidar into detailed base material for drawing contours and seeing other details in the terrain.

Details

Tags: Intermediate

Tuesday, March 10, 2026

Zoom | 6:00 PM ET | 3/12 hrs | $245.00 CAD

Interpreting Lidar/Contour Drawing
(Day 1)

This 4x3 hour course teaches participants the fundamentals of one of the most complex aspects of drawing a good orienteering map: how to draw contours based on lidar data.

Details

Tags: Intermediate | practical

Thursday, March 12, 2026

Zoom | 6:00 PM ET | 3/12 hrs | $245.00 CAD

Interpreting Lidar/Contour Drawing
(Day 2)

This 4x3 hour course teaches participants the fundamentals of one of the most complex aspects of drawing a good orienteering map: how to draw contours based on lidar data.

Details

Tags: Intermediate | practical

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Course Catalogue

Introductory
Duration: 2.5 hrs Cost: $67.50 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

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

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 dates:
Thursday, March 5, 2026 | Zoom

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