OD current areas:
"OCAD" map files for all current areas are held by Bruce Bryant.
Many of the "old area" map files are held by Mike Hampton although Bruce Bryant has copies of most files.
Most of the Urban maps cover a large area which are cropped into a smaller area for A3 printing for each specific event. For this reason, Google Maps link to these areas are not specified.
Map Type:
Forest = map drawn to ISOM 2017-2 "Forest" specification.
Sprint = map drawn to ISSprOM 2019 " Sprint-O" specification. Also used for most Urban maps
ISOM/ISSOM = map drawn using the old ISOM 2000 or ISSOM 2007 map specifications
Map Scale: Scale that the map is drawn at*
Map Date: Date of last survey revision
VOC: SMR = Summer Series 2020 MapRun courses
VOC: AMR or WMR = Autumn / Winter Series 2020/21 MapRun courses
Notes: POC/VOC = Permanent course also available as MapRun course
* = Map was drawn at 1:4000 but reduced to 1:5000 for ease of home printing
| Area Name: ( Google Maps link ) | Map Type | Map Scale | Map Date | VOC | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abbey Fields & Kenilworth Castle | Sprint | 4,000 | 2020 | SMR | Usable all year. The map is an extract of the larger Kenilworth Urban map |
| Bentley Woods | Forest | 10,000 | 2018 | - | Private "shooting" woods that are usually only available between February and June. No public access. Used primarily for major events. |
| Borough Hill | Forest | 7,500 | 2020 | SMR | Usable all year. |
| Bramcote Barracks | ISSOM | 5,000 | 2016 | - | ISSOM map with restricted access - typically shared with "military league" events |
| Brandon Wood & Piles Coppice | Forest | 10,000 | 2020 | - | Usable all year. Only one event per year permitted |
| Burton Dassett Hills | Sprint | 5,000 | 2020 | SMR | Usable all year. |
| Compton Verney | ISSOM | 5,000 | 2018 | - | Charity owned Park (& Art Gallery) Paid access to Grounds. Enlarged POC maps for Easy and Medium courses (1:4000) |
| Coombe Park | Forest | 7,500 | 2020 | SMR | Usable all year. Deep nettles in summer! POC/VOC available |
| Coundon Hall Park | Sprint | 7,500 | 2020 | SMR | Usable all year. |
| Coventry - Urban | Sprint | 4,000 | 2020 | - | Urban map covering all of the city centre inside the Ring Road plus local extensions outside. Used for major events |
| Crack’s Hill and Crick | Forest | 5,000 | 2000 | - | New map (by Richard Windsor) New map not yet used for events! |
| The Croft Preparatory School | Sprint | 4,000 | 2020 | - | New map - planned for "SEE" in April 2020 but postponed due to COVID restrictions. Possible use in 2021? |
| Daventry Country Park | Forest | 7,500 | 2020 | SMR | Usable all year. POC/VOC available POC map are extracts of the full map at enlarged scales |
| Daventry North - Urban | ISSOM | 5,000 | 2020 | - | NE Daventry including Daventry Country Park - needs updating to ISSprOM and to use the latest Daventry CP mapping. |
| Daventry South - Urban | Sprint | 4,000 | 2020 | - | New WIP map by Richard Gardner covering most of S Daventry from Borough Hill in the East to "The Grange" in the West. |
| Draycote Water | Sprint | 6,250 | 2020 | SMR | Usable all year. POC/VOC available. Totally new LiDAR-based map. |
| Elmdon Park | Forest | 7,500 | 2020 | SMR | Usable all year. |
| Everdon Stubbs | Forest | 5,000 | 2019 | - | Do not use from March to May (daffodil and bluebell season). OK at other times. |
| Hartshill Hayes | Forest | 7,500 | 2020 | SMR | Usable all year. POC/VOC available |
| Hawkesbury | Sprint | 5,000* | 2020 | AMR | New area. "Informal parkland" on the former Hawkesbury Golf Course Joins with Miners Welfare Park map |
| Hay Wood | Forest | 10,000 | 2018 | - | Usable all year but some bracken in the summer. Significant recent thinning. Re-map required when LiDAR available. |
| Hillfield Park | ISSOM | 5,000 | 2007 | - | Usable all year. Old map using ISSOM rather than ISSprOM sprint spec. |
| Hinckley - Urban | Sprint | 4000 | 2020 | - | Large urban area covering a large area of Hinckley including Burbage to the SE. The area and map are shared with LEIOC. |
| Hopwas | Forest | 10,000 | 2014 | - | Not used since 2014 due to access issues. |
| Itchington Holt | Forest | 7,500 | 2020 | - | Private woodland. No public access. Usable all year. |
| Kenilworth - Urban | Sprint | 4,000 | 2020 | SMR | Large urban area covering most of Kenilworth including Abbey Fields, the Castle & Kenilworth Common Woods |
| Kingsbury Water Park | Forest | 10,000 | 2020 | - | Usable all year. POC/VOC available |
| Malvern & Brueton Parks | Sprint | 4,000 | 2020 | SMR | Usable all year. A4 map of just Malvern Park, A3 of the full area |
| War Memorial Park | Sprint | 4,000 | 2020 | SMR | Usable all year. POC/VOC available |
| Miners Welfare Park | Sprint | 4,000 | 2020 | SMR | Usable all year. Joins with Hawkesbury map |
| National Herb Centre | Sprint | 4,000 | 2020 | - | Best used in the Winter or Spring. |
| Newbold Comyn | Forest | 10,000 | 2020 | - | New map - possible use in 2021 for WMR? |
| Nuneaton SE | Sprint | 5,000* | 2020 | - | New map - possible use in 2021 for WMR? |
| Oversley Wood | Forest | 10,000 | 2020 | - | Usable all year. Deep undergrowth in places and recent forestry work |
| Pooley Fields | Forest | 7,500 | 2020 | SMR | Usable all year. POC/VOC available |
| Rough Close | Sprint | 5,000 | 2019 | - | Usable all year. |
| Rugby - Urban | Sprint | 4,000 | 2020 | WMR | Large urban area covering most of Rugby south of the WCML railway |
| Ryton Pools Country Park | Sprint | 7,500 | 2020 | - | Usable all year. POC/VOC available |
| Shuckburgh | ISOM | 7,500 | 2016 | - | Map by Phil Kirk - used once in 2016 |
| St. Nicholas Park | ISSOM | 5,000 | 2020 | SMR | Usable all year. POC/VOC available |
| Sutton Park | Forest | 10,000 | 2018 | - | Usable all year. Very large wooded urban parkland. Suitable for major events |
| Thickthorn | Forest | 7,500 | 2020 | - | New wooded area near Kenilworth - possible use in 2021? |
| Tudor Grange Park | Sprint | 4,000 | 2019 | - | Usable all year. |
| University of Warwick | Sprint | 4,000 | 2020 | - | Usable all year. Large campus area that can also be split into Westwood, Central and Eastern campus and Western campus |
| Central Warwick | ISSOM | 5,000 | 2017 | - | ISSOM spec urban map covering most of Central Warwick including the Castle, Jubilee Woods (POC available), St Nicholas Park and Warwick School. |
| Woodcote | Sprint | 4,000 | 2020 | - | New map - possible use in 2021? No public access. |
List of significant/previous OD areas that are not currently used:
( ) = Approx date 0f last map or last use?
- Wroxall Park (2017) combined with Hay Wood
- Wedgenock (2015)
- Wainbody Wood (2014)
- Ragley Hall (2014)
- Charlecote Park (2013)
- Arley Wood (2011)
- Oakley and Ashorne (2013)
- Spiceball Park, Banbury (2013)
- NAC Stoneleigh (2013)
- Riversley Park, Nuneaton (2004)
- Wyrley and Brownhills Common (2003)
- Keresley Park
- Tile Hill and Limbrick Woods
- Hearsall Common
- Crackley Woods
- Cannon Park and Gibbet Hill Woods
- Ragley Estate
- Packington Deer Park
- Swift Valley
- Lang Farm Country Park
- Sowe Valley
- Stratford Recreation Ground
- Wyken Slough
Possible new maps?
- Allesley Park (no longer partial golf course)
- Spernall Park & Bannam's Wood and other parts of the Heart of England forest
- Grendon & Baddesley Common - awaiting new LiDAR data due Spring 2022
Map printing:
Orienteering map printing on waterproof paper is available from various external printers:
Hassall & Lucking (Long Eaton, Nottingham)
JG Mailing (Rugby) Note that JG Mailing only offers orienteering map printing from pdf files - not direct from OCAD or Condes files.