1. OpenOrienteeringMap
Ollie O’Brien
@oobr
http://oobrien.com/oom/

2. Orienteering
Wayfaring
Competitive
Official Types
Foot-O
MTB-O
Ski-O
Trail-O
Rogaining
Mountain Marathons
Unofficial Types
Canoe-O
Radio-O
Pub-O
Cambridge City Race 2009- Photo by chris5aw

3. 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

4. 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.

5. Penhale, Cornwall, UK
© Cornwall Orienteering Club 2010

6. Street-O
Informal evening training events in urban areas
Low barrier to participation
Typically one-hour race
Controls with different points scores
Black and white network maps
UK
London series
Australia
200 events a year in Melbourne!

7. Typical Street-O Map
Map produced by South London Orienteers and Wayfarers

8. 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

9. OpenOrienteeringMap
OSM + PostGIS
Web
Mod_python
Mapnik - PNGs
OpenLayers – slippy map
Printed
Mapnik - PDF
OpenLayers – map builder
Cairo – adornments and controls

10. Screenshot

11. 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

12. Setup
Nice fast server running at UCL
12GB memory
Not quite enough for complete world OSM load
Zoom levels 12-17 only
Level 15-16 represent typical orienteering scales
Tiles and PDFs rendered on-demand
mod_python
Caching for the tiles
Minutely updates from OSM
About five-minute delay – normally
Also deletes cached stale tiles

13. Minutely Updates
Why? Because Potlatch is easier than a GIS for non-techies
Fiddly to set up but satisfying once it’s working

14. OOM Street-O Event
Twickenham
Last Tuesday
Club event
Seventh in a series
50 people along
Went well
But, a few crucial missing links

15. Twickenham Event

16. Twickenham Event

17. Twickenham Event

18. Other users so far
Training
exercises
Latvia
U.S.

19. Example: Milton Keynes, U.K.

20. Example: San Fransisco, U.S.

21. Example: Runcorn, U.K.

22. Example: Karlsruhe, Germany

23. Wishlist
Mapnik
Vector icons
Proper green circles for trees
Hacked version of Mapnik out there
Might 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

24. Real Orienteering Maps
Not trying to produce these
Another project on OSM – “IOFmapping”
Forest runnability (runnable/slow run/walk/fight)
Fallen trees
Earth features, knolls
Crossable/uncrossable/seasonal marshes
More detailed than OS MasterMap
Except building outlines

25. Cite de Carcassonne, France
© FFCO 2009

26. 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.