[Qgis-user] New user

[Springfield Harrison]

All very good suggestions. I have had quite good luck getting municipal
data layers as well, some have them listed on their websites for free
download. Others may make it available on a request basis.

I'm also in Southwest BC, depending upon where you are, I may be able to
help you further. Just send me an email Direct...

Cheers . . . . .   Springfield Harrison
Samsung Tab 4
On Feb 15, 2017 9:10 PM, "Nicolas Cadieux" <nicolas.cadieux at archeotec.ca>
wrote:

> 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] <[hidden email]
> <http:///user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=5308162&i=0>> 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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