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British Long Distance Championships

By Christine Currie , 1 May, 2016

It was a cold day at Brown Clee Hill, Shropshire this Saturday, and the planners had found some pretty tough, technical terrain to battle through. The following were in the top 3 on their course:

M20L 2nd Jamie Hicks

M21L 1st Tom Bray

M21S 3rd Chris Williamson 

White 3rd Emma Currie

Next year the British Championships are in the Lake District, so perhaps this weekend was a good warm up for those Lakeland Fells!

Great Results at the British Relay Championships Today!

By Christine Currie , 1 May, 2016

It was the British Relay Championships today at Brown Clee Hill, Shropshire. Despite some injuries, SOC had a very successful morning. Highlight of the day was the 9th place on Men's Open (best result from SOC for years). Well done to Tom Bray, Rob Finch and Chris Williamson!

Other top results included 5th place on Men's short for Dave Currie, Jamie Hicks and Andrew Nash! 11th place for the M60 team of Robin Smith, Philip Eeles and Terry Smith. It was great fun, although a bit wet at times! Probably more appealing than the hail storms we suffered the previous day.

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Want to learn OCAD from an expert?

By Pete Davis , 29 April, 2016

Phill Batts, coaching officer for the Army Orienteering Association, is providing a course in the use of OCAD on Friday 13th May. If there's enough interest he'll put on a second course on Saturday 14th. Cost £50. Location: Longmoor Camp GU33 6EL. Interested? Contact Phill by email: coaching [at] armyorienteering.com (coaching[at]armyorienteering[dot]com)

Course: Using OCAD for Map Making

Content:

  • Sources of information for base maps
  • Types of information OCAD can use
  • How to work out magnetic variation and rotate base map data
  • How import and arrange more than 1 layer of base map data
  • How to stretch satellite imagery to fit other base maps
  • Checking scales of base map
  • Geo referencing the map
  • Importing GPS tracks
  • Importing OS vector data
  • Fitting “older” OCAD maps to modern digital data
  • Drawing scales, their selection and why
  • OCAD interface, map symbols and drawing tools
  • Map layouts, the essentials and the optional
  • Map reference numbering and authorities
  • Colours, their hierarchy and relationship to symbols
  • Drawing line features
  • Drawing point features
  • Following curves/symbols
  • Adding points to line features
  • Drawing the key
  • Finishing map and printing