O-Map Wiki, project proposal

Technological developments in recent decades has provided new possibilities for orienteering map creation. New types of basemaps derived from LIDAR data and use of GNSS led to more accurate maps. Also orienteering as a sport has developed new disciplines and new map specifications were created or updated. Generally, the amount of information in orienteering mapping has increased. Despite considerable progress in a number of areas, the most current problem is the fragmentation and incompleteness of information about problematics of orienteering map creation. A number of materials are obsolete (including IOF MC Instructor's kit for O-mapping courses), of varying quality, language mutations and placed in different sources such as software producers' websites or individual national federations. Therefore, it seems appropriate to build an information resource that will remove these shortcomings and provide relevant and up-to-date information to orienteering community.