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Outdoorsy Canadians rejoice!

&KEIFER
04/27/07 5:53 PM GMT
Canada's New Government Provides Free Online Access to Digital Mapping Data

Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) .. Press Release

Quote .. Experts and other users of digital topographic data will no longer have to pay to use digital versions of government maps and data. The Honourable Gary Lunn, Minister of Natural Resources, today announced that as of April 1, 2007, Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) began making its electronic topographic mapping data available to all users free of charge over the Internet.

... giving Canadians the advantage to succeed. ...



MAPS & INTERFACE


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In the words of Mauricio @ DSL-Reports

The maps are in GeoTIFF format - this is essentially a TIFF file with coordinate data embedded. Opening them with GIS software allows you to measure distance, import GPS waypoints and do all sorts of things with GIS layers. But if you are low tech like me, you can just open them in Photoshop, crop to your hearts content, and be happy you don't have to pay $12 a pop for this type of map any longer!

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FACTOID: .. collecting topographic maps will give you something to talk with *geri about at the Caedes.net get togethers



.. so? .. you guys got outdoor areas? .. I didn't know that
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::Hottrockin
04/27/07 11:14 PM GMT
~smooch~

Just acknowledging your post...don't want it buried alive!!

8~O
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I think it's wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly!! Picture Purrrfect .
::purmusic
04/28/07 6:39 AM GMT
LOLOLOLOL.

Wait, let me 'splain ... here are the results of big government at work and my particular search request.

Found here.
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. - Marcel Proust
::speedy_10
04/28/07 11:09 PM GMT
was that a link to an error report??

Because that's all i got >:\
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::third_eye
04/28/07 11:28 PM GMT
something tells me that was the point...
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::speedy_10
04/28/07 11:32 PM GMT
*feels stupid*

I knew there was a trap in there somewhere! I'll confuse you soon Les >:)
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