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OpenOrienteeringMapOllie O’Brien @oobrhttp://oobrien.com/oom/

Orienteering

Wayfaring

Competitive

Official TypesFoot-O

MTB-O

Ski-OSki-O

Trail-O

Rogaining

Mountain Marathons

Unofficial TypesCanoe-O

Radio-O

Pub-O

Cambridge City Race 2009- Photo by chris5aw

Orienteering

Small sport in the UK

Tiny sport in the US

Massive in the Nordics

� Best guy in the world is French

� Thierry Gueorgiou

� Not to be confused with Thierry Gregorius

Best woman in the world is Swiss

City of London Race 2008- Photo by chris5aw

Foot-O

Forests

Moorland

Dunes

Urban

Left: JOK Chasing Sprint leader Nick Barrable at the spectator control in Whippendell Woods, Watford. Right: Trail Challenge event in Bushy Park, London.

Penhale, Cornwall, UK

© Cornwall Orienteering Club 2010

Street-O

Informal evening training events in urban areas

Low barrier to participation

Typically one-hour raceControls with different points scores

Black and white network maps

UKLondon series

Australia200 events a year in Melbourne!

Typical Street-O Map

Map produced by South London Orienteers and Wayfarers

Traditional Method

OCAD or PowerPoint

Tracing the London A-Z

Tedious

Manual updates

MSc Project

OSM data

Updates from the community

Quantum GIS

Not set up by default for orienteering cartography

OpenOrienteeringMap

OSM + PostGIS

Web

Mod_python

Mapnik - PNGsMapnik - PNGs

OpenLayers – slippy map

Printed

Mapnik - PDF

OpenLayers – map builder

Cairo – adornments and controls

Screenshot

Two OOM Stylesheets

Street-O

“ISOM” for strokes and colours

Mimics existing Street-O maps

Pseud-O

Mimics “real” ISOM orienteering maps

Not to be used for a “proper” orienteering event

Unless OpenStreetMap gets considerably more detailed

Individual trees – which are already in OSM for certain parks

Particularly in Germany

Setup

Nice fast server running at UCL12GB memory

Not quite enough for complete world OSM load

Zoom levels 12-17 onlyLevel 15-16 represent typical orienteering scalesLevel 15-16 represent typical orienteering scales

Tiles and PDFs rendered on-demand mod_python

Caching for the tiles

Minutely updates from OSMAbout five-minute delay – normally

Also deletes cached stale tiles

Minutely Updates

Why? Because Potlatch is easier than a GIS for non-techies

Fiddly to set up but satisfying once it’s working

OOM Street-O Event

Twickenham

Last Tuesday

Club event

Seventh in a series

50 people along50 people along

Went well

But, a few crucial missing links

Twickenham Event

Other users so far

Training exercises

Latvia

U.S.

Example: Milton Keynes, U.K.

Example: San Fransisco, U.S.

Example: Runcorn, U.K.

Example: Karlsruhe, Germany

Wishlist

Mapnik

Vector icons

Proper green circles for trees

Hacked version of Mapnik out there

Might be able to do something with CairoMight be able to do something with Cairo

Contours

Most requested feature by users

Can be done from SRTM – “good enough” for Street-O

>350GB of vectors? �

“Real” orienteering maps generally use contours from photogrammetry

Real Orienteering Maps

Not trying to produce these

Another project on OSM – “IOFmapping”

Forest runnability (runnable/slow run/walk/fight)

Fallen treesFallen trees

Earth features, knolls

Crossable/uncrossable/seasonal marshes

More detailed than OS MasterMap

Except building outlines

Thanks

Ollie O’Brien

Twitter: @oobr

http://oobrien.com/oom/

OpenOrienteeringMaps, such as those featured in some images in this presentation, are derived from OpenStreetMap data, which is CC-By-SA OpenStreetMap and contributors.

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