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]
> <[email protected]> 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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