Quick Summary
MyOMaps lets you load your Orienteering Map and Course into a SmartPhone and use the GPS capability of the device to:
- "punch" when you get to a control site,
- record your track, and
- create a results (splits) file.
It also lets you create a geo-referenced map from a photo or image file to use as your Orienteering or Hiking map.
You can use the App in many different ways. Here are a few examples:
Use MyOMaps instead of a GPS Watch at a normal orienteering Event
Run your own course (Without controls in the forest)
Run your course (without paper map or controls in the forest) – Various options:
Make your own course using a Google Map
- "punch" when you get to a control site,
- record your track, and
- create a results (splits) file.
It also lets you create a geo-referenced map from a photo or image file to use as your Orienteering or Hiking map.
You can use the App in many different ways. Here are a few examples:
Use MyOMaps instead of a GPS Watch at a normal orienteering Event
- Record your Track then at the finish – Immediately review your course on your Orienteeirng Map
- In its simplest use, MyOMap let’s you run your orienteering course in the usual way, using MyOMap to record your GPS track (ie run with your smart phone in your SPIBELT or in your arm band)
- At the end of the run, take a photo of your map with your smart phone (Android only)
- MyOMaps let’s you quickly position your map and shows your track on the O Map.
- Discuss with others, where you ACTUALLY ran, and not where you think you ran (or claim you ran!).
Run your own course (Without controls in the forest)
- Import your OCAD map (in KMZ format) – if it is geo-referenced it will be automatically positioned at the correct location as an overlay over the Google Map
- Import your OCAD course (you can also use Corpse, PurplePen, Google Earth or Google Maps)
- Select whether you want to run a conventional course or a scatter
- Take a printed map and your compass and go to the start location
- Press start to begin your run
- As you approach each control location – the smartphone will alert you that you have arrived at the control location (although there may not be an actual control/flag at the location) and record the time.
- When you get to the Finish – the stopwatch time will stop and your track and splits will be recorded.
- You can immediately review your track on your OMap on your smartphone and have the option to export the results to an OE Results file.
Run your course (without paper map or controls in the forest) – Various options:
- With a Printed Map: As described above – with the screen of the smart-phone providing no map or location information
- Electronic Map Mode: As described above – but the map is shown on screen (but without your location and track)
- Electronic Map Beginner/Training/Control Placement/Control Collection Mode: As described above – but the map is shown on the screen and your location and track are also shown.
Make your own course using a Google Map
- For training purposes, you may be happy to set your own course, even in a location that has not been mapped for Orienteering. This also applies in the case of Street Orienteering.
- Use Google Maps to set a course by placing markers in sequence at the control locations. Export this into a KML file and load this into MyOMaps. (Android only)
- This will function just like an Orienteering Course in the App and get you out and running quickly.
