The OCAD Team

Thomas Gloor

After an apprenticeship as surveyor's draftsman, Thomas Gloor studied at the ETH Zurich natural sciences. Afterwards he worked as a scientific assistant at the institutes for agricultural engineering and of cartography at the ETH Zurich for 4 years. Since 2002 he is responsible for international hiking projects and hiking maps and books of Swiss Hiking Federation. Since March 2005 he is in charge of the management of OCAD Inc.
Thomas Gloor is an encouraged orienteer. He is member of the map commission of the Swiss Orienteering Federation (SOLV) and the International Orienteering Federation (IOF) as well as a map consultant.
E-Mail: thg@ocad.com

Born in 1977 he was first a surveyor's draftsman. Then he studied for and received his Bachelors degree in Geomatics. After an intermediate year at GEONOVA he received an additional Diploma in Computer Science.

Gian-Reto Schaad is an enthusiastic orienteer and runs regularly in Scandinavia. He is an active mapper, member of the Map Commission and map controller of the Swiss Orienteering Federation.
E-Mail: grs@ocad.com

Hubert Klauser studied Geography with focuses in Hydrology, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Computer Sciences at the University of Berne. After finishing his studies he collaborated at the further developement of the Water Information System Switzerland (GEWISS) of the Federal Office for the Environment from 2004 until April 2007.
In January 2007 he started part-time postgraduate studies in Geographical Information Science & Systems at the University of Salzburg (Austria).
Hubert Klauser is an enthusiastic orienteer and was a member of the Swiss national team for several years. He is an active mapper, experienced course setter and map consultant of the Swiss Orienteering Federation (SOLV).
E-Mail: klh@ocad.com

Ursula Billinger

Software developer

In memoria Hans Steinegger

Hans Steinegger was born in 1948. After his Masters degree in Electrical Engineering (ETH) he worked in hardware and software development in the telecommunications industry (Autophon) and finally as R&D manager in the semiconductor industry (ESEC).

After developing the first version of OCAD in his spare time he founded the firm Steinegger Software in 1992. He then worked full time on further development of OCAD. In particular, he changed it from a program purely for orienteering maps to a program for general cartography.

When he was younger he orienteered in the Elite class and subsequently ran in his age class. Before starting on OCAD he had drawn several maps using pen and ink. This experience, together with his professional knowledge, was the basis for his development of OCAD.

Hans Steinegger passed away on Saturday, June 19, 2004.