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
