Sprint Mapping Seminar, Ballarat, 1 October 2015

3 June 2015
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SPRINT MAPPING SEMINAR
AUSTRALIAN CHAMPIONSHIPS CARNIVAL, BALLARAT
10am-5pm, Thursday, 1 October 2015

Invitation

Orienteering Australia’s Mapping Committee invites you to a Sprint Mapping Seminar to be held in Ballarat during the 2015 Australian Championships Carnival.

The three presenters are AdrianUppill (Chair, OA Mapping Committee), Alex Tarr and Andrew Lumsden. They have more than 100 years of mapping experience between them and have mapped and field checked sprint maps for JWOC, WMOC, National Events, etc.

Target Audience and Aim

Most competitors at the Australian Championships Carnival would benefit from attending. The Seminar will help:

  • existing sprint mappers improve their mapping;
  • provide a detailed exposition on how the Sprint Mapping Specification should be used; introduction
  • give new sprint mappers an idea of the challenges awaiting them in the bush and urban environments; and
  • help competitors improve their sprint race performance by improving their knowledge of what is and isn’t mapped and why.

The Seminar will discuss how to produce a sprint map suitable for use in a World Ranking Event competition. The Mapping Committee believes that every sprint mapper should have this aim, even if the map is for club level events.

Venue

Eastwood Leisure Complex, 20 Eastwood Street, Ballarat, Victoria – which is where the AusChamps World Series StreetO Challenge starts from.

Cost

Free. BYO lunch and drinks.

HOW TO REGISTER

Please send an email to Andrew Lumsden (lumsden.byers@gmail.com). Please:

  • if you only want to attend some sessions, mention which ones;
  • if you want a printed copy of any PowerPoint slides for the presentations (we will email you a copy after the Seminar).

Programme

10.00 Aim, scope & introductions

10.30 Introduction to sprint mapping – Andrew Lumsden

11.00 Non-urban sprint mapping – Alex Tarr

12.00 Lunch & general chat

13.00 Urban sprint mapping & the International Specification for Sprint Orienteering Maps (ISSOM) – Andrew Lumsden

14.30 Afternoon tea

14.45 Urban sprint mapping & ISSOM continued

15.45 Walk around neighbourhood looking at Sprint mapping conundrums – Adrian Uppill

16.45 Seminar finishes

17.00 AusChamps World Series StreetO Challenge mass start

People are welcome to attend one or more sessions.

Enquiries

Please contact:

  • Andrew Lumsden by email (byers@gmail.com); or
  • phone him on 02 9412 3545 (after 16 August).