Welcome to the Orienteering Australia technical pages.

These pages are a source of information for controllers, mappers, organisers and course-setters.

Tech News

The primary means of communication between OA members with a technical bent is via the "Tech News" newsletter. The latest edition of Tech News can be downloaded from the Tech News Archive.

Contributions for Tech News should be emailed to OA Director, Technical.

Closing Date for next issue: July 1 2009

Rules, Guidelines and Resources

Orienteering Australia produces rules and guidelines for major events. The rules are binding for group A and B events, while the guidelines are produced to assist organisers of National League events. These are available for download  from Section 2 - Technical and Competition of the OA Operational Manual.

International control descriptions (2004 edition) should be used at all Australian events. These can be downloaded from the links below:

• Brief edition (330KB)
• Full edition (3.3MB)

Controllers Pages

Controllers are our first line of defence in the battle to maintain the technical standards of Australian Orienteering: they provide the quality control on all of our major events.

Recently, OA completed a major program to standardise education and accreditation of controllers under ASC's National Officiating Accreditation Scheme. Details of the curricula, controllers currently accredited and other resources for controllers can be found on the controllers pages.

For more information on how to become a controller, email OA Director, Technical.