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, February 9, 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, February 10, 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 | OOM | practical

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

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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: 12 hrs Cost: $245.00 Level: Intermediate

practical

This course teaches participants how to interpret lidar data and draw contours and other features from various layers of lidar information. Over the course of four 3hr sessions you will learn about the following topics:

Day 1: Intro to contours and bezier curves
Day 2: Reading lidar contours and drawing orienteering contours
Day 3: Interpreting lidar data and more drawing contours
Day 4: Drawing non-contour features and contours in sprint maps

Upcoming dates:
Tuesday, March 10, 2026 | Zoom
Thursday, March 12, 2026 | Zoom
Tuesday, March 17, 2026 | Zoom

Introductory

Duration: 2.5 hrs Cost: $67.50 Level: Introductory

practical OCAD

This 2.5 hour online course is part 2 of Navigation Sports' Introduction to Orienteering Mapping course. In it, you will learn how to use OCAD's 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

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