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.
The Technical section of the Orienteering Australia's web site

Course Planning

Course planning overview by Stefano Raus 2017

[ from Course Planning Workshop 2014]

[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

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