Resources
CONVERSION OF FOOT ORIENTEERING MAPS TO THE NEW IOF MAP SPECIFICATIONS
Provisional Orienteering NSW Guidance
This webpage provides links to a series of Orienteering NSW guidance on how to convert maps and to some useful external guides.
This guidance is provisional. It has not been tested. Any suggestions for improvement should be sent to Andrew Lumsden (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).
ISOM MAPS (FOREST AND URBAN)
- Conversion: introduction, partial v full v no change, scale & symbol size, contour interval
- Presentation slides: Updating maps to revised IOF forest map specifications
Partial change
- ONSW Guidance on how to show out-of-bounds
- A table of symbols to convert for events on ISOM maps from 1 October 2021
Full change
SPRINT MAPS
- Conversion: When, how, scale & symbol size, contour interval
- A table with IOF and ONSW comments on how to convert ISOM to ISOM 2017 and ISSOM to ISSprOM Map Specifications
- Presentation slides: Sprint and school maps conversion to ISSprOM specification
FOR THE MAP SPECIFICATION AFFICIANADO
The documents below are line by line comparisons of ISOM, ISOM 2017, ISSOM and ISSprOM as at March 2021. They contain quite detailed tables that are the basis for the decisions in the ONSW guidance above. They are not necessary reading, although keen mappers might want to refer to them occasionally.
- Mapping specifications – landforms
- Mapping specifications - rocks and boulders
- Mapping specifications - water and marsh
- Mapping specifications – vegetation
- Mapping specifications - man-made features
- Mapping specifications - technical symbols
- Mapping specifications - purple non-course symbols
FOR COMPETITORS – MAP SYMBOL SUMMARIES
- Map Symbols for Foot Orienteering Maps (ISOM 2017)
- Map Symbols for Sprint Orienteering Maps (ISSprOM 2019)
- Control Descriptions March 2019
GENERAL INTEREST
Video of 2021 Mapping Workshop click here
International Orienteering Federation map specifications
ONSW Manual section 7.1: Maps - rules on map ownership and map specifications
Omaps - which shows the location of and other information about Australian orienteering maps.
NSW map database - this is currently being replaced by Omaps.
FOR MAPPERS, COURSE SETTERS, VETTERS and CONTROLLERS
Who to ask
To obtain basemaps, aerial photos, etc – ONSW Mapping Officers
- Hamish Mackie (0407 202 171) and Barry Hanlon (0490 685 936) or Email - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
General mapping questions - ONSW Mapping Advisory Group
- Andrew Lumsden This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. / 9412 3545
- Carol Jacobson This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
- Hamish Mackie This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. / 0407 202 171
- Robert Vincent This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. / 0409 245 031
Field working using a tablet
- Maurice Anker This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
How to convert maps to the new IOF Map Specifications - Overview
Conversion of Foot Orienteering Maps to the New IOF Map Specifications.
Background information
Orienteering Australia’s mapping pages have a lot of helpful information on making maps.
Setting up an OCAD Basemap (WHO)
Introduction to LIDAR (Russell Rigby - revised Barry Hanlon 2020)
This document has an emphasis on processing in Kartapallautin which was used in the days before OCAD added Lidar processing. However, it is still relevant to use in addition to OCAD because of the differing results which can be useful to the field worker.
ONSW Mapping Workshop Materials - February 2014
Setting up an OCAD Basemap (Russell Rigby)
More about background images (Russell Rigby)
Mapping Specifications (Carol Jacobson)
Real World Coordinates (Carol Jacobson)
Notes on Real World Coordinates (Carol Jacobson)
Mapping - Safety Aspects (Andrew Lumsden)
Page under construction
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A set of coaching exercises by Newcastle Orienteering Club
- Details
Note: Please be aware the nomenclature used for courses has changed over time see below for a list
| pre Jan. 2012 | post Jan. 2012 | |
|---|---|---|
| Blue | Very Easy | |
| Green | Easy | |
| Short Orange | Short Moderate | |
| Long Orange | Long Moderate | |
| Short Red | Short Hard | |
| Medium Red | Medium Hard | |
| Long Red | Long Hard |
Got any questions about any of the concepts discussed below? Then please This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. the club coach.
| Coaching Page Issues | |
|---|---|
| Issue 1 | Map terrain skills |
| Issue 2 | Blue and Green skills and orienting a map |
| Issue 3 | Orange and Red skills and thumbing a map |
| Issue 4 | Contouring, Attack Points and Route Choice |
| Issue 5 | Aiming off and Leg Analysis |
| Issue 6 | Relocation and Catching Features |
| Issue 7 | |
| Issue 8 | |
| Issue 9 | Control Descriptions and Route Choice |
| Issue 10 | Control Descriptions |
| Issue 11 | |
| Issue 12 | Traffic Light Orienteering |
| Issue 13 | Route Choice and Techniques revisited |
| Issue 14 | |
| Issue 15 | Techniques revisited |
| Issue 16 | Picturing the control site |
| Issue 17 | Route Choice |
| Issue 18 | Hints on Approaching Controls |
| Issue 19 | Race Procedure |
| Issue 20 | Errors |
| Issue 21 | Route Choice |
| Issue 22 | |
| Issue 23 | Rough and Fine Orienteering |
| Issue 24 | Consistency |
| Issue 25 | |
| Issue 26 | |
| Issue 27 | Skills for Orange and Red and Basics Revisited |
| Issue 28 | Route Choice |
| Issue 29 | Control Descriptions Part 1 |
| Issue 30 | Control Descriptions Part 2 |
| Issue 31 | Reading Control Desciptions |
| Issue 32 | Preparation and Skills for Red |
| Issue 33 | Orienteering Basics |
| Issue 34 | Route Choice |
| Issue 35 | |
| Issue 36 | Preparation |
| Issue 37 | |
| Issue 38 | |
| Issue 39 | Basics Part 1 |
| Issue 40 | Basics Part 2 |
| Issue 41 | |
| Issue 42 | Compass technique and contours |
| Issue 43 | Intermediate techniques Part 1 |
| Issue 44 | |
| Issue 45 | Intermediate techniques Part 2 |
