Technical Information
COURSE PLANNING | CONTROLLING | ENVIRONMENT | MAPPING
The following documents & links are useful for event organisers, course setters, mappers and controllers. For other related material refer also to
- Event Management page.
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The Technical section of the Orienteering Australia's web site
Course Planning
- Course planning overview by Stefano Raus 2017
[ from Course Planning Workshop 2014]
- WorkshopAgenda.pdf
- Course Planning Workshop 2014 No Maps.pdf
- Course_Planning_Workshop_2014_Hard_Courses_No_Maps.pdf
- Course Planning Moderate and Hard Courses.doc
- Very Easy Course Example.pdf
- EasyCourse Example.pdf
- Moderate Course Example.pdf
- Hard Course - Long Distance Example.pdf
- Middle Distance Example.pdf
- Sprint Distance Example.pdf
[Documents from Other Workshops and Articles]
- Settng Short Hard Courses - Technical_Guidelines_for_Short_Hard_Courses.pdf
- Course Formats Summary - EventFormatsSummary.pdf
- Water on Courses - Water on Courses.doc
- Restricted Areas and Routes - Restricted Areas and Routes.doc
- Control Placement - Siting of Control Flags.doc
- Course Setting Moderate and Hard Courses - Course Planning Moderate and Hard Courses.doc
- Course Setting Easy, very Easy and Street Courses - Course Planning Easy, Very Easy and Street-Park Courses.doc
- Run Rates for Maps by Adrian Uppill RunRatesforMaps.xls
- Course Length Determinator by Adrian Uppill CourseLengthDeterminator.xls
Controlling:
[L2 Controllers Workshop 2015]
- L2Agenda20151122.doc
- 2015 L2 Workshop Slides.ppt
- Course navigational difficulty.docx
- Event Organisation Activities.docx
- Officials-Code-of-Ethics-Orienteering.doc
- 2015 Mapping- Notes for Controllers Workshop.pdf
- 2015 Mapping- Notes for Controllers Workshop.pdf
Environmental Impact of Orienteering:
- Several articles based on an environmental survey associated with a major orienteering event in Namadgi NP, ACT are available here.
Mapping:
- International Orienteering Federation: Mapping Specifications
- Orienteering Australia Mapping Page.
- Mappers Corner: Useful Information & Links for OCAD Users
May 2019: OCAD announces that it no longer provides support for OCAD 12 & earlier. This includes the provision of the latest symbol sets. If you have OCAD you can unzip & copy the following current symbol sets into you symbol directory (a sub directory of OCAD). This included ISOM 2017.2 & the latest sprint template ISSproM2019
- Oceania Mapping Workshop Presentation 2019. Prepared by Adrian Uppill (Member of the IOF Map Commission)