Discussion: Control Descriptions

Here is a document that I think is pretty helpful, especially for intermediate level orienteers. It not only shows how those cryptic control descriptions work, but also give rather excellent sketches of what the control would look like in the terrain...

http://www.orienteering.org/i3/index.php?/iof2006/...

This document is 29 pages long! But skip the first 15 pages and go directly to the EXAMPLES section that begins on page 16. It has about 12 page crammed with examples. Each example includes: map snippet, pencil drawing, symbolic control description, textual control description. It really is good. Combined with the one-pager summary of all the symbols, and I think you have got lots for people to study.

A one-page chart of the basic International Orienteering Federation Symbols
http://www.buffalo-orienteering.org/forms/IOF%20sy...

A fun game to help learn the symbols (it starts with the most common ones and works up from there).
http://www.fortnet.org/icd