Please feel free to distribute these files unchanged or print them out for noncommercial use. Orienteering is the sport of navigation often held in unfamiliar terrainusing a map and compass. The sprint orienteering format has been defined by the iof as follows. The files are available as jpg images or pdfs and are designed for printing at a4 size. Its a sport for everyone and beginners are always welcome. It is a topographic map with extra details to help the competitor navigate through the competition area these maps are much more detailed than generalpurpose topographic maps, and incorporate a standard symbology that is designed to be useful to anyone, regardless of native language. Reviews downloading maps, importing into openorienteering mapper, and drawing symbols for an orienteering map.
This document is guide for users to understand different scales and symbol sizes used in skio. Openorienteering mapper is an orienteering mapmaking program and provides a free alternative to the existing proprietary solution. The isom 2017 specification and issom 2007 specification are available from the iof web site. First, let us introduce you to the names we have given the basic pieces of the compass. Background maps are usually aerial photographs of the area being mapped, but they can be copies of old maps, school ground plans and other ocad files, e. The small children of starters are not forgotten, they can learn the map symbols and control descriptions in a very playful way.
Parts of the map important map components title all maps have a name. Next steps for beaver scouts ready for more challenge, the locations of the controls can be left off the map. These maps are much more detailed than generalpurpose topographic maps, and incorporate a standard symbology that is designed to be useful to anyone. When a map is enlarged, all lines, symbols and screens shall be enlarged proportionally. An orienteering map must be drawn using the set of drawing symbols isomissom appropriate to both its intended use classicurbansprint and the ocad drawing scale chosen. This game reproduces a complete ameet with day1 and day2 courses, other.
The two features they are looking for are contour line f, and scale g. Each time you play, 8 symbols are picked at random from your chosen group so. Maps are the basis of orienteering and the competitor needs to know as much as possible about the map and how it can be used. It is a topographic map with extra details to help the competitor navigate through the competition area.
Purple pen makes it easy to design orienteering courses and their associated control descriptions. An orienteering map is a map specially prepared for use in orienteering competitions. These cards are slightly bigger than the symbol cards. Route gadget files includes a zoomedin map image focusing on the controls. Isom 2017 international specification for orienteering maps. Design your courses visually directly on any ocad map, openorienteering map, or pdf map. Print the full size set included in the file and cut up and laminate.
Issom 20xx international specification for sprint orienteering maps. The rules file is different if you want to make an isom, issom or some other map. Manmade object orienteering symbols game cards for cutting up and. Your open orienteering mapper file can be saved as an ocad file at any time by using file save as and selecting ocad. For creating and editing interactive and printed maps such as topographic maps, city maps and orienteering maps. Pdf and raster image export for getting the map into course. The next step is to convert the open street map symbols to orienteering symbols. Catching features is by far the most realistic simulation of a orienteering event. Opposite is an illustration of the complete set of map symbol control cards. Producing quick orienteering maps step by step from open street map. Please note that ocd files of skio map symbols 2019 document are absolutely inappropriate. An orienteering map is aligned to magnetic north rather than grid north.
The map below shows a sample stringorienteering map with the course marked. There are also exercises to even challenge the elite runner. Successfully used in the cartography, city and surveying offices, universities and orienteering clubs. Creating and maintaining street orienteering maps using. To learn the basic orienteering symbols and colours. Orienteering is about more than just navigating to a single point quickly. The map is usually simple and includes just the area around the course. The new map symbols explained berkshire orienteers. Even at this simplest level, however, children can be taught map symbols, map colours and simple orienteering skills. You can download these sheets formatted for printing in a. A orienteering map symbols activity use controls with any of the orienteering activities star, scatter, score, clover, line or crosscountry. For older age groups where reading fine lines and small symbols may cause problems due to deterio.
International control description symbols course length climb column descriptions 1. Mapper and course setter notes georgia orienteering club. Rapid orienteering map creation with arcpad and arcgis. Orienteering basics college of saint benedict and saint. Pdf studio maintains full compatibility with the pdf standard. Course design purple pen is a great orienteering course design software. Station cards these are the cards that go at each station. Orienteering map in this example, we start a new forest orienteering map in the scale 1. It is very easy to use and accepts pdf, ocad, and oom map files. This 8 page bundle includes 33 orienteering map symbol cards and their corresponding word cards. This is a great piece of software to help clubs find more course designers.
Isom 20172 adjusted version published january 2019. Other information column 3 northern upper lower middle column 4 terrace spur reentrant earth bank earth wall erosion. Mappers then use these when drafting the map for an event. Contours can be added quite easily the digital elevation model dem data supplied by the.
Some are good for training when you cannot get out to park for a run. These are downloadable guides to orienteering map symbols. These maps must communicate the features which are obvious on the ground to competitors while running. Purple pen is course setting software for orienteering. Beaver scouts may colour it in with the appropriate map colours, as you can see in the map below the colours are indicated for them. If you are interested in orienteering map symbols these are what make up the map. See here for information on using purple pen on mac or linux. Control descriptions and map symbols explained backwoods. Practice area terrain map updates have not been as extensive and precise in the practice area as on the parts of the map used for the competition.
Please note that ocd files of skio map symbols 2019 document are absolutely inappropriate for new mapping projects. Notice that the only real stations are a, b, and c. Orienteering symbols flash cards for teaching the symbols orienteering symbols flash cards for teaching the symbols. Point out and name 10 symbols on a topographic map. For the last 17 years, orienteering maps have been based on a version adopted in 2000. Ocad the powerful swiss software application for cartography and orienteering. International control description symbols florida orienteering. This is the web site for the rocky mountain orienteering club rmoc. Online registration orienteering usas event register is a great solution for preregistration. It was found that the current method of displaying dot screens as specified in the isom2000 results in unacceptably large. These cards can be used in a variety of ways in an orienteering unit.
Map symbols maps give information by using symbols. The issom 2007 sprint map symbols are those used for sprint orienteering maps at 1. Map symbol training our interactive map symbol quizzes will help improve your knowledge of the iof map symbols by asking you to match the symbols with the corresponding text. Orienteering maps are one of the map products where the symbol set is.
This is a pdf document that outlines the iof standards for mapping. The map is printed on an inkjet or color laser printer. A complete introductory orienteering activity package for. Each a4 sheet contains 4 symbols or words which need to be cut. Rapid orienteering map creation with arcpad and arcgis michael hendricks orienteering is a sport of navigation with map and compass that requires detailed large scale maps, typical at 1. A complete introductory orienteering activity package for schools. To create an orienteering map, you use ocad to trace the features on the background map. With the map held in this way you will also know where north is situated. The symbol dimensions for school maps are enlarged from the standard isom2000. In the field, show how to take a compass bearing and follow it.
System have a system that you apply to every leg, e. Test your knowledge of the orienteering map symbols. The foreshore is the lower portion of a beach, extending landward from the mean lowerlow water line to just beyond the mean higher highwater line. The following section will outline the parts of the map and how the information on the map can best be used in an orienteering competition. Explain how a topographic map shows terrain features. You also have to pick sensible routes between different markers. Creating and maintaining street orienteering maps using openstreetmap oliver obrien. Control descriptions and map symbols explained 2004 samples further down this page control descriptions are the black on white pictograms that tell you where in the circle the control is located, and map symbols are the 5color symbols used on orienteering maps control descriptions here is a site where you can learn about control descriptions. To increase efficiency while gathering geographic data in the field, the mobile gis software, arcpad, was customized specifically for orienteering map creation with esris application builder software. Its easy to learn and a fun way to exercise your body and mind as you enjoy the outdoors. Affordable, powerful pdf editor for windows, mac, linux an easy to use, fullfeatured pdf editing software that is a reliable alternative to adobe acrobat and provides all pdf functions needed at a fraction of the cost. Map symbols exercise use the map in this file for the map symbols identification activity. The program is completely free, every programmer can improve it.
Map symbols cards matching symbols equipment pairs of children map keys piles of symbol names cards for each pairteam resource map key resource set of laminated symbol and words cards. Point out and name five terrain features on a map and in the field. Draganddrop the pdf files from the zipped folder to the folder that you created. The program works on android, windows, macos and linux. Point, line, and polygon input files are associated with standard orienteering mapping codes and symbols. Thumb on map have some means of keeping your location in view on map, compass edge, thumb etc. Print each page of control descriptions and map symbols. This means turning the map until the symbols on the. It will be directly beyond the mapnorth edge of the map. Then by uploading these files to the app, one can see the orienteering map, the controls, and a blue dot showing your exact position.
Some are good for introducing the concepts of orienteering. Symbols can be figures, shapes, lines, and colors that show where places and things are on a map. Map symbol training octavian droobers the orienteering. This is the web site for the rocky mountain orienteering club rmoc, located in colorado, usa. Managing the orienteering and basemap data in a gis allows spatial data from other sources to be added.
For this reason it mixes different symbol sizes in legend and colours in colour table. The map can be saved as an svg, pdf, or printed directly. Also, the practice area has been recently logged whereas there arent any logged areas in the competition area. The iof competition rules regulate the use of map enlargements for iof events. A gps file gpx of the control positions gps longlat coordinates for each control. Use a card sort game to help pupils understand the different symbols on the orienteering map some will represent barriers and areas that are difficult to move through eg fences and lakes.
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