[Qgis-user] Toporama in QGIS in UTM

[John Abraham]

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> On 9/1/11, John Abraham <jabraham at ucalgary.ca> wrote:
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>> The Canadian TOPO WMS is great because it's seamless and you can
>> select/order the layers, but the content is not as good as the original
>> geotiffs which can be downloaded ftp://ftp2.cits.nrcan.gc.ca/pub/toporama/
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I compared the geotiffs with the WMS and the content is identical for the maps I compared, but the format is better on the WMS.

On NRCan's Geogratis website there is a selection of maps that have been updated, but it is only a very limited coverage.  So AFAICT right now the WMS is definitely worth loading.  I believe the scans of the old topos should be available for free (there is an iPhone app that is free that uses them) but I haven't been able to locate them.

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John Abraham
jabraham at ucalgary.ca