FOREWORD
The Map Commission within the International Orienteering Federation is responsible
for all matters related to orienteering maps, such as map standardisation, development,
education and quality assurance. It is a body under the IOF Council. The ISSOM
project started in 2001, as a result of the Leibniz Convention.
The sprint discipline was in 2001 included in theWorld Orienteering Championships
programme, and the Map Commission is responsible for establishing a map standard
for sprint orienteering. The ISSOM project is a "fast track", low
budget standardisation effort compared to the ordinary ISOM (the International
Specification for Orienteering Maps) standardisation work. Our previous project
was the ISOM2000 project, an update of ISOM, with special emphasis on the use
of digital technology. The Commission spent about 3 years on the ISOM2000 project,
being able to form a working group, a reference group, produce 7 offset testprints,
etc.
Sprint orienteering is something new.We have had park maps previously, but sprint
events can take place in forests, in urban areas and even in mixed environments.
To establish a mapping standard for this new discipline is much more complicated
then for traditional orienteering in the forest. So, what we publish now is
just a final draft.We are waiting for feedback, and we want to collect experiences
at WOC2003.
The structure of this document is based on ISOM2000. In some places we have
followed the logical order of ISOM2000, so some of the numbers are not in ascending
order. We have tried to distinguish between the semantics of a feature and its
graphics implementation. For instance, minor watercourse (307) in the ISOM2000
has been kept in the ISSOM, but the graphics implementation of 307.1 in the
ISSOM is the same as the graphics implementation for 306 in the ISOM2000. The
semantics are the same, but the graphics implementation is different (and in
this case, the graphics implementation is the same as for a feature with different
semantics in the ISOM2000).
This file is a final draft, and we do not plan to make big changes in it in
the next few months, but minor corrections may occur. The corrections will be
listed on the MC website and the PDF file will be updated (check the date).
You can download an OCAD template file which is based on this final draft. For
additional information you can visit this website:
http://www.swisshiking.ch/gloor/iof/
Budapest, 28 February 2003
László Zentai (chairman), Thomas Gloor (project leader)
MC members: Sergio Grifoni, Jukka Liikari, Sören A. Nielsen, Erik E. Peckett,
Havard Tveite.