Sam Vekemans wrote: > Well then if thats the case, then i think that we need to fix up the > wiki page to reflect that. .. and state that GeoBase is 'Natural > Resources Canada' which IS the GeoGratis website portal showing the > other sites. ... (Gosh this government is confusing ;) .. aargh! ... >
Then I won't mention the CTIS site (http://www.cits.rncan.gc.ca/)! (and no, there's no free data there (well almost none), only information) Here's my [limited] understanding: GeoGratis - "data storage" web site for Federal NRCan Earth Sciences Sector free data distribution. CTIS - The Federal agency responsible for topographic mapping (part of Earth Sciences Sector). GeoBase - "data storage" web site by Federal/Prov/Terr agencies to distribute free topographic data For some reason (historical?, organizational?, disk space?) it does not include the Federal NTS map vector data (at Geogratis) , but it does include NTS digital elevation models. Go figure. > Or perhaps im not getting it. .. Can we explain; > > 1 Where exactly the data in the Ibycus topo came from. (if it was a big > set and split up, or how it was done) Likely CanVec or it's predecessor, NTDB. > > 2 If everything on the Ibycus Topo is now 'old' ... how to we find the > new stuff?? CanVec > > 3. What's this Atlas of Canada > <http://atlas.nrcan.gc.ca/site/english/maps/topo/map>thing? why cant i > download anything from that page? A web mapping site (not a data download site) for viewing CanVec/NTDB. Created before CanVec/NTDB was freed. Best Regards, Brent Fraser GeoAnalytic Inc. _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
