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.cadi...@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 > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > [hidden email] <http:///user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=5308147&i=0> > List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > > ------------------------------ > If you reply to this email, your message will be added to the discussion > below: > http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/New-user-tp5308147.html > To start a new topic under QGIS - User, email [hidden email] > <http:///user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=5308162&i=1> > To unsubscribe from QGIS - User, click here. > NAML > <http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=macro_viewer&id=instant_html%21nabble%3Aemail.naml&base=nabble.naml.namespaces.BasicNamespace-nabble.view.web.template.NabbleNamespace-nabble.view.web.template.NodeNamespace&breadcrumbs=notify_subscribers%21nabble%3Aemail.naml-instant_emails%21nabble%3Aemail.naml-send_instant_email%21nabble%3Aemail.naml> > > > ------------------------------ > View this message in context: Re: New user > <http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/New-user-tp5308147p5308162.html> > Sent from the QGIS - User mailing list archive > <http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/QGIS-User-f4125267.html> at > Nabble.com. > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org > List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user >
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