OpenOrienteering Mapper

OpenOrienteering Mapper

Original author(s)	Thomas Shops
Developer(s)	Kai Pastor, OpenOrienteering Development Team
Initial release	February 2012 (2012-02)
Stable release	0.6.1 / February 10, 2016 (2016-02-10)
Preview release	0.6.20160401 / April 1, 2016 (2016-04-01)
Written in	C++, C++11, Qt
Engine
Operating system	Linux, OS X, Windows, Android(beta), Android-x86(beta)
Platform	x86, x86-64, ARM
Available in	15 languages
Type	vector graphics editor, GIS, DTP
License	GNU GPL v3
Website	openorienteering.org

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OpenOrienteering Mapper(also known as OOMapper and OOM) - free and opensource cross-platform software for cartography on orienteering maps, editing them and preparing for professional publishing; functionality is similar to GIS OCAD, Merkaartor, JOSM, QGIS, desktop publishing and vector graphics editors Adobe Illustrator, Scribus, CorelDraw, sK1 and Inkscape. Program currently is a part of OpenOrienteering project.

History

In group of software for creating orienteering map starting from 1980 and to our days was the monopoly of commercial proprietary GIS OCAD. Belong last years number of users demoversion of OCAD 8, that discontented by very high price and not user friendly interface of program without support to Linux and OS X, enlarged and at the same time was springing needs yes-no decision. There was some trys for creating alternative tools, but they can't compete with latest freeware and outdated at those time OCAD 6. Here is a list of projects that in some way try make free alternatives:

• Addons for Mapnik:
  • In 2009 Oliver O`Brien launched online map service OpenOrienteringMap (OOMap), based on OpenStreetMap Data and own rendering style for Mapnik, that give a look in some way similar orienteerings map and add possibility to export selected region on it in PDF.
• Addons for Inkscape:
  • In 2010 Jon Eaton made an addon named as O-scape specially for Inkscape, that in some situation used as alternative to similar addon MapStudio created before this specially for Adobe InDesign.
• Addons for JOSM:
  • In 2011 Kai Pastor made addon The Print Plugin for JOSM, that give possibility print OSM Data in own style directly from JOSM in offline mode without dependency to any third-party rendering applications
• Addons for Maperitive:
  • In 2011 Jens Kastensson made adapted rendering style for Maperitive renderer application, that use as input OSM Data, for rendering in style that based on ISOM standart
  • In 2014 Hadrien Devillopoix adapted style created by Jens Kastensson specially for ISMTBOM standart

But no one of this addons do not help make really good resulted map that can be approved by IOF for ISOM standarts.

In 2012 German programmer Thomas Shöps started project OpenOreienteering with target for creating free and opensource application for orienteerings map, as alternative to OCAD 8. Later Kai Pastor, Peter Curtis and few other voluntars took part in development, testing and translating interface to other languages . This is the story how OpenOrienteering Development Team was created, that at start consisted from 7, and later from 15 participants.

13 July 2012 was first public demonstration of OOMapper on International Conference on Orienteering Maps (ICOM 2012), that placed at Lussana (Switzerland).

Main repositary from founding located at http://sourceforge.net/p/oorienteering/ . But in June 2015, in connection to problems and politic of hoster SourceForge, maintainers start migration of project infrastructure to GitHub. Actually main repositary of OpenOrienteering project located at http://github.com/openorienteering Main developer starting from v0.6.0 is Kai Pastor, that have inspireens in similar projects and took part in other opensource projects development, like JOSM and Scribus.

On situation of 1 April 2016 OpenOrienteering Development Team consist at least from 28 contributors.

Mobile version with touch-input support

First requests for mobile version of OOMapper was published at November 2012. Main target was porting to mobile devices with Android, and for this task needed add touch-input support and special mobile UI layout. 2 April 2014 first beta version build of OOMapper for Android was presented

At the moment of release v0.6.1 mobile builds steal has 'beta' status and not recommended to use for seriouse mapping projects.

Symbol sets

Main repositary of OOMapper currently include few symbol sets, that developed according to listed mapping standarts:

• International Standart for Orienteering Map (IOF ISOM)
  • ISOM (1:15000, 1:10000)
  • ISSOM (1:5000, 1:4000)
  • ISSkiOM (1:15000, 1:10000,1:5000)
  • ISMTBOM (1:20000, 1:10000, 1:7500)
• Symbol sets translated to other languages or with regional specific:
  • ISOM and ISSOM with Czech translation
  • ISOM and ISSOM with Finnish translation
• Upcoming new International Specification for Orienteering Maps ISOM 201X (planned for release on 2016)
  • ISOM 201X (download from link)

Use of 3rd-party librarys

At current state of development OOMapper use and/or include different external library for some special functions:

• PROJ.4 - for georeferencing.
• Clipper Library - for operation on polygons.
• Zlib - for compression and uncompression operations.
• Qt - for application GUI.
• GDAL - for importing different geo spatial formats; latest test build v.0.620160401 has initial support of this library.

File Formats

One of the main target of this project is full support to file format used іn GIS OCAD version 8, as most popular and widely used for orienteering maps, that also officially supported by International Orienteering Federation (IOF).

OCAD file format

OCAD (*.ocd) - number of opened binary file formats, specification of those published for free by OCAD AG Company.

OMAP file format

This is own open and free file format developed by Thomas Shöps specially for OOMapper, that in some way similar to OSM XML from OpenStreetMap, but with full support to API OOMapper. There are few versions of this format:

• *.omap - minimal form, that is hard to human read (single stroke XML).
• *.xmap - verbal form with good XML formatting specially for human reading.

Also there was special binary form of this format up to v0.5.0, but later it was discontinued. Anyway, its steal possible open binary format and resave in XML-based form.

OSM file format

Support to OSM Data format in OOMapper added from v0.5.3, but in v0.6.1 its steal possible import only limited geometry import from OSM XML. Currently in test build v0.6.20160401 have initial implementation to new mechanism of OSM import using GDAL library.

Supported file formats

Opening (for editing)

• OpenOrienteering Mapper (*.omap *.xmap)
• OCAD up to version 12 (*.ocd)
• Geospatial vector data (*.shp *.shx)
• OpenOrienteering Mapper pre-0.5 (*.omap)

Import (with limitations)

• All file formats that possible to open (see paragraph above)
• GPS tracks and waypoints (*.gpx)
• AutoCAD DXF (*.dxf)
• OpenStreetMap Data XML (*.osm)

Saving

• OpenOrienteering Mapper (*.omap *.xmap)
• OCAD version 8 (*.ocd)

Export

• Raster image (.png *.bmp *.tif *.tiff *.jpg *.jpeg)
• Portable Document Format (PDF)

Templates

• All types of raster graphics
• Scalable Vector Graphics (*.svg *.svgz)

Positioning

OOMapper is complex cartographic DTP and WYSIWYG-editor for orienteering map with full support to OCAD file formats, including IOF ISOM standart symbol sets, professional CMYK and Spot colors, ready for production PDF and professional printing; adding extend painting futures is not preferable target for maintainers.

Functionality

Symbols

• Point (waipoint)
• Line (straight and Bézier curves)
• Area (filled with color or pattern )
• Text (with alignment and fontface settings)
• Combined

Colors

• CMYK
• Spot
• RGB

Georeferencing

• Coordinate system settings
  • Local (as printed on paper)
  • UTM
  • Gauss-Krugger, datum Potsdam
  • PROJ.4 manual input
• Magnetic declineation setting

Special futures

• Tags for any map element (similar to how this presented in GIS JOSM)
• Import maps each into another

OpenOrienteering opensource applications

1. Mapper - cartographic DTP application for orienteering maps.
2. CupCalculator - application for organizing competitions on orienteering.
3. Contour Trace - application for tracing contours from raster images of map scans using AutoTracer library.
4. Laserscan tool - application for visualization LIDAR-scanning point cache and convert it to readable images.
5. Betting - application based on PHP and MySql for visualization of competitions scores using data exported from SportSoftware.

Usage

The number of users of OOMapper scaled-up after first releases of v0.5.x branch, and currently is a short list of organisation that officially use this application:

• International Orienteering Federation (IOF) already include OOMapper in the list of recommended software for mapping.
• Orienteering Association of Western Australia (OAWA), that is member organization of Orienteering Australia, recommend OOMapper for using on study orienteering in schools.
• Oxford University Orienteering Club recommend to use OOMapper for own members.
• 24 April 2014 notes about "Open Orienteering Mapper for Android" published in "The West Midlander.Spring 2014", that is Newsletter of Western Midland Orienteering Association (WMOA).
• 16–17 January 2015 application OOMapper used by members of International Orienteering Federation Map Commission (IOF MC) іn Frankfurt (Germany), at yearly meet-up on improvements standarts and specification for orienteering maps known as ISOM.
• At the April 2015 in Chrorvatia OOMapper already used to creating orienteering map of city Buzet (cartographs: Dražen Tutić, Matjaź Štanfel) for International tournament "BUZET SPRINT ORIENTEERING 2015" that was part of 11th Conference of Cartography and Geoinformation. This map used on tournament on 9 May 2015 where took part IOF council Laslo Zentai.

Links

• Official site of OpenOrienteering Project
• OOMapper main repositary
• Online Manual for OOMapper
• OpenOrienteering Ukraine - Ukrainian usergroup of OOMapper on Facebook.
• List of different software for orienteering on O-Wiki.net site

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