Ocad has very useful File>Information facilty to make notes on successive changes to planning, base map etc. Hopefully easy to implement.

Users may find that they need to change one or more settings each time they use the program. Having a way to make these the new default settings would avoid this.

It would be very useful if we can group circuits in tabs it the tool bar.
For example : One map, mutliple courses and multiple circuit.

Have a report on water controls. This would indicate:

• For each course, the longest segment between water


• For each water point, how many competitors use it, and a suggested amount of water to place

The rectangle is nice for making borders on maps. Would be great if it had a white padding option, so we don't need to use the white masking tool. Padding should extend to infinity outside the border.

Alguém pode colocar em português?
Fica bem melhor para os brasileiros...

simple idea. a click less and more intuitive to use. a little plus in the course tab bar to create a new course.

thank you for your work

like in OCAD F4
limited for a course.
Shortage for using more OCD maps in event(workaround)

This would be useful for beginners as the text would read exactly the same as the symbols. e.g. use "N knoll, E edge" rather than "E edge of N knoll"

Most commonly used from last control to finish, but also commonly used mid-course in relation to spectator passages, map exchange or crossing forbidden areas. Should also be allowed from start point to start triangle.

Many years ago I used a planning program called Wincacs. One place it won out over purple pen was in its display of leg and control load. By drawing all used legs and controls in an event, with different size circles and thickness of lines depending on the loading it gave a much quicker idea of which legs and controls are overloaded. Currently this is a lot more clunky in purple pen. Its not critical, but it would be a nice addition.

I would consider very useful to have simple distance measurement tool that allowed to measure the actual distance of the optimal route leg. I consider specially useful when drawing sprints. The workaround I do is to draw in Open Orienteering Mapper.

For me it would be helpful to set numerically the size and location (e.g. X,Y coordinates) of an object. Some time I need align objects, and I would like to align them with high precision.

At the moment the choice is all to make them all the same or to set the area individually. I have resorted to manually editing the .ppen file to make a number of them the same.

When adding an OCAD map file give a warning if the OCAD map has linked images - and where the OCAD file is looking for those images - in case I don't have those images and don't know they're missing...

Under Insert Special Text, allow means to include the current filename.
I update the filename with a version letter after changes. It would help to be confident from the output which version was being used.

Import existing XML file with controls and courses generated in Ocad. The XML file must be generated with georeferenced coordinates.

Competitors should virtually never be expected to navigate to the finish and it should be strongly discouraged. There is no option for the finish to have a description. I think that at the moment, many planners just leave the default (navigate to finish) without thinking about it.

Any map detail between the end of the tail and the circle part of the number tends to make the 6 or 9 look like an 8. A straight tail would never be mistaken for an 8.