A bit of promotion of someone else's work.
Edit 19 Feb 22: Additional features added that further improve usability - described below.
Many clubs are using the OpenOrienteeeringMap (oomap)
https://oomap.co.uk/ web app by Ollie O'Brien for quick and simple maps/courses for various events including MapRun events. Last year, with Ollie's knowledge, David Dixon has been working on an enhanced version available at
https://oomap.dna-software.co.uk/The first set of enhancements included:
-Contours from various sources including LIDAR in some locations;
-Increased resolution options for image exports (really useful for importing into OOM, PurplePen, OCAD etc);
-Magnetic North rotation option; and
-PDFs georeferenced for direct import into OOMaper etc.
Very recently he has added a number of new features (still being optimized) including:
-Line courses enabled (Pt to Pt not just Score-O )(in rendering options);
-In-browser map preview (new button at top-right);
-Pull in OpenStreetMap POIs as controls - postboxes, lampposts, benches, permanent O-markers, and any other node type through a custom option;
-Double-click editing/deleting of controls & other features; and
-"Letter" paper size added.
22 Feb Added features:
-"Ctrl-z" will delete the last control or batch of controls added.
-"Ctrl-g" toggles a greyscale map option to help see the markers.
-Rows in the control description table are now draggable so can be re-ordered.
-As well as the different node search options, there's now also a "pull all tagged nodes" option to give you *everything* from OSM that might be useful as a point feature.
The POI option allows for a display of things like benches, lamps etc on a temporary layer that can be selectively converted to controls. With the ability to now design Pt to Pt coursed (and re-order the controls), this becomes a really good option for quick and easy Pt to Pt courses, not just Score-O.
If you use the original app you might want to give the enhanced version a try. Note that saved maps made in the original version can be called up in this version,
I have been feeding David comments on this Attackpoint thread and I suspect he might like some other users giving some feedback.
ThreadThis thread is also useful to get a better idea how to do the various things.
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