For smaller clubs, there is a limited club license. Mapper openorienteering open source orienteering software. Course planning is arguably the most rewarding and enjoyable of all the volunteer roles you can do as an orienteer. Makes it easy to plan courses and prepare maps and course descriptions. Includes features like layout layer, drawing and editing tools and the dem module are implemented.
View the course and the control descriptions at the same time, and simply click on the control descriptions to set. Software for organising orienteering events single, multiday, relay, scoreo. The program works on android, windows, macos and linux. Karen dennis is an experienced orienteer, course setter, and mapper. Those who set up the initial event should study a map for likely locations of control points and verification of the locations. It is also can be a great help for planning control setting and collection activities. The program is completely free, every programmer can improve it. A club licence for condes is valid for members of an orienteering club. This is a great piece of software to help clubs find more course designers. Free trial version works for 21 days, limited functionality. Openorienteering open source orienteering software. The challenge is to complete the course by visiting all control points in the shortest possible time, aided only by the map and a compass. Ocad 2019 orienteering orienteering unlimited, inc. Our tutorial videos cover map and compass skills needed for backcountry navigation, as well as some of our favorite types of mapping software and a great smartphone gps app.
Purple pen makes it easy to design orienteering courses and their associated control descriptions clue sheets. Includes course setting, course consulting, start lists, results and splittimes with sportident or emit, commentator and race analysis and animation. We will go over some basic bestpractices of setting orienteering courses from beginner through advanced levels. However, map editing is not possible with this edition. List of software for orienteering international orienteering federation.
Online registration orienteering usas event register is a great solution for preregistration. If you have successfully used course setting software on a mac and then either opened and printed from a pc, or exported courses to ocad for printing from a pc, please share what works. Not only does it improve your navigation skills, but it gets you out into the bush and it has the most impact on everyones enjoyment and challenge at an event. I have prepared a summary of the software for the next edition of orienteering australias tech news, due out sometime in the near future. Active controllers orienteering nz national and international active controllers updated july 2019 controller application form updated august 2014 mapping. Purple pen is course setting software for orienteering. The course planner is responsible for everything from the start line to the finish line. We will discuss how to use the free software purple pen to set a better course and to yield a higherquality map for printing. We are proud to announce the release of openorienteering mapper 0.
See here for information on using purple pen on mac or linux. This form can be used during the training phase and in. The new handout goes sequentially from one step to another. Orienteering is the sport of navigation often held in unfamiliar terrainusing a map and compass. An orienteering course is composed of a start point, a series of control points, and a finish point.
Figure 1 the log in screen 3 at the home page click on courses, then click on create a course. Ocad 2019 course setting orienteering unlimited, inc. Next, add 23 controls further out for the next course up and then continue until all courses are set. Ocad cs 2019 course setting is the ocad edition for orienteering sports course setters and course controllers. The software supports the whole work flow starting from scratch of a course setting project to the very end, from placing the start symbol until printing or exporting the courses on the map or in one step together with the map. Ocad 2019 orienteering edition orienteering edition is dedicated for orienteering mapmaking. From carthography to event management there are lots of information technology involved. This tool makes course setting significantly easier and will give first time course setters the confidence to set courses for the club. Course design purple pen is a great orienteering course design software. Write course setter notes if needed and post at event. Ocad the powerful swiss software application for cartography and orienteering.
Condes is the orienteering course planners assistant. This edition is dedicated to course setting for orienteering sports. It is an extraction of ocad orienteering course setting module and enables you to set courses for orienteering events. The standard contour intervals for orienteering maps are either 5m or 2. An ocad map file of your area is very nice to have as a base layer, but you can use an air photo or other graphic as well. Corpse course planning and setting is a package which assists in the design of orienteering courses and in the preparation of event materials such as course maps and control description sheets. Its easy to learn and a fun way to exercise your body and mind as you enjoy the outdoors. Purple pen is the premier course design software for orienteering.
Mapstudio website offering symbols and resources for drawing orienteering maps in adobe illustrator on either macintosh or windows platforms. Openorienteering mapper is an orienteering mapmaking program and provides. Orienteering has many features that involve technology issues. Oq course setting workshop orienteering queensland.
The san francisco bay area orienteering club in orienteering you use a map and compass to navigate a course through unfamiliar terrain. Course setting with purple pen new england orienteering club. Or, if the school area is mostly flat, you could just skip the contours altogether. Reads sportident dibbers to produce meet results and splits files. Early this century, ocad successfully developed professional edition for certain sectors of the general cartography market and has had significant success. View the course and the control descriptions at the same time, and simply click on the control descriptions to set the correct description for each control. Download and install free inkscape, in inkscape open the svg file from previous step. Purple pen makes it easy to design orienteering courses and their associated control descriptions. Youll be given a map of the course, so dont bring along any maps of the area. Controls are marked with a white and orange flag in the terrain, and corresponding purple symbols on an orienteering map. For creating and editing interactive and printed maps such as topographic maps, city maps and orienteering maps. These numbers are only for identification purposes. All you need to start planning your courses is the map in digital.
If you have successfully used course setting software on a mac and then either opened and printed from a pc, or exported courses to ocad for. Its a sport for everyone and beginners are always welcome. How to design an orienteering course using the permanent orienteering markers the orienteering maps of woodland trails scout reservation and cricket holler training center have symbols where the permanent orienteering controls are located. It concentrates mainly on the course setting aspects of the software rather than print production, and doesnt compare each product pointbypoint and is definitely not a user guide for each package. Better yet, they should coordinate with an experienced competitor in selecting the course.
Course design clinic info pdf how do i design courses pdf purple pen. Corpse course planning and setting is a package which assists in the design of orienteering courses and in the preparation of event materials. As an alternative, we added a setting for displaying gdalogr templates in. Some of the most common are route, line, crosscountry, and score orienteering. That does give the scout a clue as to whether hes at right station, but its less confusing. Bring along some water, especially if youll be running a lot. People of all ages enjoy orienteering as a leisurely walk in the woods or as a competitive crosscountry race. It is the preeminent orienteering mapping software. Come along to the course setting workshop and get a head start, along with top tips for setting fun and challenging courses. Openorienteering is a project developing a collection of tools which help with the creation of orienteering maps and the organization of orienteering events. Design your courses visually directly on any ocad map, openorienteering map, or pdf map.
This list is to help you decide which orienteering course andor which training session to select. Corpse course planning and setting software for orienteering. This has probably been asked before, but does anybody know if condes or purple pen will work on a mac. This official release includes bug fixes and updates. Condes course planning program and map overprinting software. Send course xml file and background map image for routegadget and epunch event setup to tyler borden. This edition is dedicated for orienteering map making with a stepbystep wizard for analyzing of lidar data, mobile geodata capturing, smart editing and drawing tools, generalization tools, desktop publishing, course setting and much more.
Course design archives northeast ohio orienteering club. Also, ive put letters on the back map instead of numbers. For schools, nature centers and camps, youth groups and corporations, orienteering unlimited incorporates the natural fun of a treasure hunt into programs that inspire any age group in any setting while supplying all the training and equipment you will need. Introduction to purple pen course setting software. Some of the most common are route, line, crosscountry, and score. Condes supports the administrative procedures involved in course planning, and can print out a range of different reports of the data. It is very easy to use and accepts pdf, ocad, and oom map files. Pdf and raster image export for getting the map into course setting programs. Learn to use purple pen software to set an orienteering course. Design your courses visually directly on any ocad map. With armchair course setting you dont need to have any specific control locations, just select approximate control sites and then go and find the specific feature that the control will be attached to. Purple pen makes it easy to design orienteering courses and their associated control. Of course there were significant updates to thirdparty components, and.
Includes course setting, course consulting, start lists, results and splittimes with. For school grounds, it often works best to choose a scale that. Openorienteering mapper is an orienteering mapmaking program and provides a free alternative to the existing proprietary solution. This is a description of the standard orienteering course levels and the skills required to do each one ordered from easiest to hardest. For creating maps such as topographic maps, city maps and orienteering maps. But it does support course setting on pdf files, so you may use mappers cmyk pdf export, rather than mappers lossy ocd export. Single user licenses and licenses for professional users are also available. Mapping solution now incorporates professional and thematic. Adobe illustrator software that is commercially used for cartography and mapping. All courses for an event are plotted directly over the map image. Course setting guidelines refer to orienteering nz footo competition rules, section 16. The international orienteering federation iof interface standard is a specification of an xml data format for the interchange of orienteeringrelated information events, entries, start lists, result lists, etc. Software for orienteering course setting event administration. Of course there were significant updates to thirdparty components, and updates.
It doesnt directly support oom files, and probably it never will our format is still quite volatile. Isom 20172 and issprom 2019 symbol sets, including course setting symbols, os and ea logos. Check out this video to learn how to complete an orienteering course as a boy scout. Bring new life to your property and your programs with custom orienteering maps and personalized training plans. Successfully used in the cartography, city and surveying offices, universities and orienteering clubs.
Navigation videos columbia river orienteering club. The svg format is not supported by condes which i use for course setting, i use inkscape to transform to png. In any case, creating the contours usually requires some gis software, some monkeying around, and then something you can load into oom. This software runs on android, linux, macos and windows. Centenary high school midday to 4pm, prior to the cyclones sprint. This video explains how to import course setting data from condes 8 course setting software.