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