19th ICOM to be held digitally July 8th

The 19th International Conference on Orienteering Mapping (ICOM) will be held as a digital conference with presentations being livestreamed via to the Facebook group Orienteering Mappers. The conference is scheduled to be held from 16:00 – 18:30 CEST.

The conference has normally been held biennially in connection with the IOF General Assembly, but this year due to the Corona virus situation, it is being held virtually. On the programme of the conference:

PROGRAMME

Time (CEST) Topic Presentation
16:00 Conference opening and welcome speech

Luděk Krtička

IOF Map Commission

16:10 Open data in Austria as a source for orienteering maps

Robert Ditz

IOF Map Commission

16:30 Import of open data in OCAD

Andreas Kyburz

OCAD AG

16:50 Mapping with Drone Data in Alpine Terrain

Gian-Reto Schaad

OCAD AG

17:10 Fly your own orthophoto under 600 USD

Karel Vítek

Mapper

17:30 Mapping of multilevel structures on sprint orienteering maps: recent developments and proposals for solutions

Luděk Krtička, Adrian Uppill

IOF Map Commission

17:50 Practical guidelines for laser printing of maps

Christer Carlsson

IOF Map Commission

18:10 Handheld Imaging Laser Scanner – new chance for producing orienteering maps?

Robert Ditz

IOF Map Commission

18:30 Closing of the conference

Luděk Krtička

IOF Map Commission

For more information and abstracts of the presentations see the Programme & Abstracts document which can also be found on the IOF Map Commission page.