Course planning with Condes

Condes helps you by doing the tedious task of keeping track of controls and courses, and by printing the courses and maps.

Condes stores all the course planning data (controls, coursese, classes, etc) for an orienteering event in a Condes event file (a WCD file).  You define a number of controls, which can be combined into courses.  The information about a control is shared among all the courses that visit the control.  When you modify the control or move it, all courses will be implicitly updated.  This means that data is always "consistent", and you can concentrae on the creative task of designing good courses.

Maps

Condes uses map files, either an OCAD file, or a bitmap file (JPG/BMP/PNG/TIF), for example exported from Adobe Illustrator.

Multiple Canvases

An event file has 5 "canvas"-es that you can use to design different page layouts at the same event.

You can have the same map on all canvases, or you can have different maps on each canvas.

The same controls and courses can be shown on different maps, by configuring canvases accordingly:

• If the courses extend across two maps, you can place the two maps on each their canvas.
• If you use two different maps at different map scales, you can place them on two canvases.

Logos and Graphics

Condes can add graphics to the map layout.

Bitmap files (BMP/JPG/PNG/TIF), Windows metafiles (EMF/WMF), and OCAD files (OCD) are supported.

Control Descriptions

can be printed on the map or separately, as pictorial or textual.

Texts

You can add standard texts and free format texts.

A standard text is for example: course name, event name, map scale... A Free format text is anything you type.

Course Planning

You plan your courses with the map on the screen. Condes helps you keep track of the control sites. Condes ensures that when you move a control, all the courses that use the control will be kept up to date.

Condes supports:

• Individual courses (Foot-o, Ski-o, MTB-o, Trail-O)
• Relay courses (extended FARSTA)
• Calculates course lengths and control site loads
• Shows attack angles for each control
• Punch patterns for pin punches and Emit backup slips

Map and Course Printing

Condes can print the courses and maps on a color laser or ink jet printer.

Condes can print multiple maps on the same page. You can fill up the page with copies of the same course, or you can print different courses on the page.

Condes can print maps and courses with "overprint" effect, which allows underlying details to be visible that would otherwise be covered.

Course Data

Condes exports course data to event administration systems for punch checking.

The file format used is the IOF standard, XML based.

Reports

Condes can print listings of the information that is stored for an orienteering event:

• All controls
• All courses
• All classes
• Control/course relationship
• Relay variations
• Proposed relay team combinations

Course Overprinting

Condes can also print the courses onto existing offset printed maps.

Alternatively, you can plot the course overprints on a pen plotter. Condes has its own built-in plotter driver.

Course Layout Export

Condes can export maps and courses in three different formats:

• EPS format for offset printing.
• OCD format for import into OCAD,
• JPG/BMP/PNG/TIF format for posting on the internet.