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[Nicolas Cadieux]

Hi,

Canada has lots of free stuff including topographic maps.  Most topographic base maps are 1:50k (called canvec) or 1:250k. Provinces usually use 1:20k.   You can search for canmatrix also.  Geogratis and geobase web site has lots of database and nrcan does a very good job giving stuff out for free.  You will find some great wms servers also.   You will also find stuff on open.canada.ca.  The site is not a map data site but it does have a lot of stuff like Lidar data.

Good luck

Nicolas





http://open.canada.ca/en

http://www.geobase.ca/

http://www.nrcan.gc.ca/earth-sciences/geography/topographic-information/free-data-geogratis/geogratis-web-services/17216

http://geogratis.gc.ca/api/en/nrcan-rncan/ess-sst/-/(urn:iso:series)canvec

http://www.nrcan.gc.ca/earth-sciences/geography/topographic-information/free-data-geogratis/11042

http://www.atlas.gc.ca/toporama/en/index.html

> Le 15 févr. 2017 à 20:04, Stephen Wandling [via OSGeo.org] <ml-node+s1560n5308147h18 at n6.nabble.com> a écrit :
> 
> I had worked a bit with ArcGIS about 12 years ago and have been 
> struggling to make it work for me again.  I have been pretty successful 
> except in one area. 
> 
> I do not have an ESRI account, so when I built a map on their free World 
> Topographic Map and exported it as a PDF, it was of very low quality.   
> It would have been a waste of time and money to have it plotted. 
> 
> My quest is for high res data.  I live in the SW of British Columbia and 
> have spent a week looking for all of the "free" GIS data that the 
> federal and provincial governments say they have made available.  So, 
> far my searches have failed to find this data.  I can get census data 
> from 2002, but I can not get a topographic base map of the area where I 
> live. 
> 
> I had some data from my school days, and I can build a fairly decent map 
> with it.  But, it lacks any contour lines.  And being based on the 
> British Columbia government cartography, which was shut down in 1992, it 
> has significant errors, like missing a creek that runs quite near to my 
> home. 
> 
> 8 or 9 years back, when I was seeking a map for my Garmin GPS, there 
> were a few guys in British Columbia that had good data and were giving 
> it away.  They did not mention where they got this data.  I do not seem 
> to find them these days. 
> 
> If you can point me in the right direction for this data, I will much 
> appreciate it. 
> 
> Stephen 
> 
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