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Edmonton Overlanders Orienteering Club

other orienteering events, skills, mapping, equipment, event organization, rules, miscellaneous

Orienteering Clubs and Associations:

Alberta Orienteering Association Alberta's provincial association.

Foothills Wanderers Orienteering Club The club for Calgary and area, including a schedule of events for the Calgary area. Canmore area orienteering.

Canadian Orienteering Federation Responsible for the development of the sport in Canada, includes links to the National Team blog, Facebook page and Twitter.

International Orienteering Federation Oversees the development and advancement of the sport on an international basis.

Orienteering USA Oversees the development and advancement of the sport in the United States. They have a great page with links to various sources of O'Gear.

Saskatchewan Orienteering Association

Manitoba Orienteering Association

Orienteering Association of British Columbia

Yukon Orienteering Association

Orienteering Ontario

Orienteering Quebec

Orienteering Association of Nova Scotia

Orienteering New Brunswick

World of O - news from orienteering around the world. Click on the Union Jack for news in English

Major orienteering events by other clubs, of interest to Edmonton orienteers. Most of these require pre-registration

2012

Canadian and Western Canadian Championships, in the Edmonton and Calgary Areas, August 2012

North American Orienteering Championships on the border of New Jersey and Pennsylvania, October 18-21, 2012

Skills Development:

Catching Features - a realistic game for practicing orienteering skills - run in the terrain, read the map (and, of course, get lost). Even the demo version is addictive!

Control Descriptions - control description symbols from IOF as of Jan 1, 2004. Starting on page 16 there is a chart with the map symbol, a drawing of the feature, the control description symbol and text.

A fun game to learn the control description symbols here.

A quiz game to learn the ISOM 2000 map symbols here

Attack Point - compare splits, swap training ideas and track your fitness.

Route Gadget A program for competitors to draw in their routes and others to see how they ran! Includes hints on using the program. Canadian Events listing.

O GPS computer application for analyzing your route using speed, elevation and heart rate, from a Garmin GPS watch (using a file from Garmin Training Centre) and a picture of the map.

Mapping and Maps:

International Specifications for Orienteering Maps (ISOM) for most orienteering maps

International Specifications for SPRINT Orienteering (ISSOM) for larger scale maps for sprint orienteering (1:4,000 and 1:5,000) and one mapper's interpretation of it.

OCAD - Orienteering Computer Assisted Drafting software for mapping

Olles - some of our club maps and some of the WMOC2005 maps have been made by Olles.

Map Town, 10344 105 Street, Tel: (780) 429 2600 sells individual hard copies of the club's city park orienteering maps

Event Organization:

Canadian Orienteering Federation Rules

SPORTident - electronic timing system

Condes - software for course planning, including a free demo version.

WinSplits - SPORTident results with split times are published on this page from orienteering events all over the world

Route Gadget . A program for competitors to draw in their routes and others to see how they ran! Includes hints on using the program. Canadian Events listing.

Control Descriptions - control description symbols from IOF as of Jan 1, 2004.

A fun game to learn the control description symbols here.

Equipment:

Canadian Orienteering Store aka 'o-store' - click on 'for athletes' for SPORTident electronic timing cards and thumb compasses. Also sells control flags, clothing, shoes etc.

Fast Trax (Edmonton) sells trail running shoes, athletic clothing

Scarborough Orienteering (USA) includes SI cards and compasses

Go-Orienteering (USA) includes SI cards and compasses

Other:

Edmonton Sport Council - The Edmonton Sport Council's mission is to provide a plan for a well coordinated, participant-centred, sport delivery system in Edmonton, so that as many people as possible can enjoy these benefits, to enhance community life.

Alberta Environmental Network - environmental news, updates and events

Children who enjoy orienteering might also be interested in the Young Naturalists Club of Alberta

Physiobench - on-line physiotherapy advice to enable people to self manage their injury with expert physio guidance (UK site) Having this link on our site should not be construed as EOOC endorsing this service.