[Gdal-dev] Re: Raster Soviet Topo Maps

[Matt Wilkie]

Hi Alex, thanks for bringing toporama into the discussion. It helps to 
have related material in the same thread.

> Matt's right. CanMatrix ain't free for the public, however, Toporama is:
> http://toporama.cits.rncan.gc.ca/toporama_en.htm
> 
> It's very similar to CanMatrix but offering much less details. Toporama 
> is also available at the 1:50,000 scale in not-geocoded gif format.

georeferenced toporama is available from
http://members.shaw.ca/davepatton/maps.html
they're not free but reasonably priced at $375 for the whole country.

If price is an issue, Dave also has a shareware program called DRGMapCal 
so you can do the georeferencing yourself
http://members.shaw.ca/davepatton/drgmapcal/

If you use ArcInfo I have a humble AML which generates worldfiles from 
an NTS polygon cover (some things hardcoded)
http://yukongis.ca/bin/view/Main/TopoRama

cheers,

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matt wilkie
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