Nett-Orientering

Information about the map

The map is a simplified and scaled-down drawing of the terrain, seen directly from above. The terrain can, for example, be a forest, a residential area, a schoolyard, or inside a building. Imagine you are sitting in a helicopter or filming downward with a drone. Then you see the terrain directly from above.

The most important tool

The map is the most important tool when you participate in orienteering. There are several different types of maps intended for different uses - such as mountain maps, nautical charts, city maps, hiking maps, and orienteering maps.

What kind of map is this?

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Answer:

It is an orienteering map. These are also orienteering maps:

Compare map and aerial photo

Here is a school area with buildings, playgrounds, some trees, and lawns. Drag the slider to compare the aerial photo with an orienteering map of the same area.

The aerial photo shows the same area as the orienteering map.

Photo of an area with large buildings in three corners, and a large open space with some trees and sports fields in the middle. — Aerial photo

Map with grey areas in three corners, and a large yellow area in the middle, with patches of white. There are some larger green areas to the left, and three rectangular areas in the middle of the yellow. Two of them are green with a black border, and one is larger and beige with black dots. — Orienteering map

You can learn a lot about maps by comparing the image and the drawing.

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Tips

Look after the maps you get when traveling to new places, visiting amusement parks, or museums. It is fun and educational to look at these maps after the trip as well.

Different types of orienteering maps

Is it the orienteering map or the hiking map that has the most details?

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The orienteering map has the most details. On this hiking map we mainly see lakes, roads, paths, and marshes, but on the orienteering map we also see cliffs, boulders, felled areas, and dense forest.

Here you can see different types of orienteering maps by clicking the buttons:

A schoolyard map usually shows the schoolyard and the nearby neighborhood.

Orienteering maps show many of the details you can see in the terrain, but not everything. There is not enough space for that. The mapmaker has selected the large and important details and omitted those that are too small and less important.