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#210123 - 07/07/03 09:48 PM BC Basemap Viewer
Don_Serl addicted to cc.com Registered: 05/02/01 Posts: 666 TRs: 33 Photos: 67 Loc: Vancouver,BC,Canada	Those interested in modern digital high-resolution on-line mapping should check out the BC Basemap Viewer. The entire province has been mapped with aerial surveys at 20m data-point spacings; the results are excellent. See: http://maps.gov.bc.ca/imf/imf.jsp?site=bc_basemap The viewer is quite intuitive; remember to turn "ON" the layers. Turning "OFF" the 3rd "Grids and Images" tab ("TRIM Orthomosaic") removes photo-overlays which interfere with visibility in some areas. 48,000 scale (anything sub-50,000) is good for "cruising", as it includes most point elevations. Zooming "OUT" to 96,000 shows 100m contouring and key placenames. Zooming "IN" shows ever-greater detail. Have fun! _________________________ Don Serl
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#210124 - 07/07/03 10:05 PM Re: BC Basemap Viewer
Fence_Sitter spray'prentice Registered: 04/22/02 Posts: 3074 TRs: 0 Photos: 1 Loc: I GOTCHA!!!!	sweet! _________________________ "No-one fucks with Riti Sped or her tards!"
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#210125 - 07/07/03 10:12 PM Re: BC Basemap Viewer
Dru Sick Spray Bird Registered: 02/08/01 Posts: 30031 TRs: 29 Photos: 304 Loc: Collapsing State Vector	The BC Basemap is usually down for maintenance on Sunday evenings. _________________________ t3h v01d, b1 d3f1n1t10n 4mless, there4 pr3d8s 4ll 4m & w1ll r3m41n
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#210126 - 07/07/03 10:13 PM Re: BC Basemap Viewer
snoboy spray'prentice Registered: 09/11/02 Posts: 4109 TRs: 4 Photos: 58 Loc: Here, right here.	Spectacular! If i ever needed a reason to buy a 22" monitor... here it is. What a resource, thanks for pointing it out Don. [edit]Dru! I can't believe you never told me about this! You holding out on me???[/edit] Edited by snoboy (07/07/03 10:35 PM) _________________________ "Attention, the white zone is for weighting and unweighting only!"
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#210127 - 07/07/03 10:47 PM Re: BC Basemap Viewer
Dru Sick Spray Bird Registered: 02/08/01 Posts: 30031 TRs: 29 Photos: 304 Loc: Collapsing State Vector	I honestly thought everybody already knew about the BC Basemap until about a month ago. _________________________ t3h v01d, b1 d3f1n1t10n 4mless, there4 pr3d8s 4ll 4m & w1ll r3m41n
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#210128 - 12/10/03 12:04 PM Re: BC Basemap Viewer
Ed_Seedhouse journeyman Registered: 10/02/03 Posts: 69 TRs: 1 Photos: 10 Loc: Victoria B.C. Canada	Quote: *Don_Serl said:* Those interested in modern digital high-resolution on-line mapping should check out the BC Basemap Viewer. I discovered this about a month or two ago myself. You can also email maps to yourself as attachments and save them locally. I used that for my "Wapiti Valley Guide" site at http://members.shaw.ca/eseedhouse/wapiti/. _________________________ Ed Seedhouse
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#210129 - 03/13/04 05:41 PM Re: BC Basemap Viewer
Don_Serl addicted to cc.com Registered: 05/02/01 Posts: 666 TRs: 33 Photos: 67 Loc: Vancouver,BC,Canada	New location for BC basemap viewer: Go to http://maps.gov.bc.ca/ Then click open the "Provincial Basemap" hotlink. The operation of the viewer has changed a bit, and is a touch less user-friendly. You need to click the "Layers" tab at the top, then click open the "Base Map Layers" folder, then select the info you want added to the view. The thing is, you generally want EVERYTHING in the "Base Map Layers" section, but because the info is scale-sensitive, you can't access it all until you're in to about 1:100,00 scale or tighter. Hassle... But you can get to "tight" scale quickly by clicking on the map at about the location you want [to save moving a lot afterwards], then (after it reloads) re-entering the scale at (say) 1:96,000 in the box lower left and clicking to "GO" button, and making your complete selections after the re-load finishes. Reminder: keep the 3rd "Grids and Images" tab ("TRIM Orthomosaic") OFF so as to remove photo-overlays which interfere with visibility in some areas. Cheers, _________________________ Don Serl
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#210130 - 07/11/04 10:05 AM Re: BC Basemap Viewer
Ed_Seedhouse journeyman Registered: 10/02/03 Posts: 69 TRs: 1 Photos: 10 Loc: Victoria B.C. Canada	The site has changed again - the "basemap" now has very little detail on it. However the link for "Land and Resource Data Warehouse Catalogue" has all the old stuff. Just go to maps.gov.bc.ca and click on the link, or the direct url is as follows: http://maps.gov.bc.ca/imf406/imf.jsp?site=lrdw_catalog_ext _________________________ Ed Seedhouse
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#210131 - 07/11/04 09:09 PM Re: BC Basemap Viewer
Dru Sick Spray Bird Registered: 02/08/01 Posts: 30031 TRs: 29 Photos: 304 Loc: Collapsing State Vector	The Basemap still has the contours and roads which is all you need to go climbing The LRDWC has all sorts of useless data on it I rarely use. _________________________ t3h v01d, b1 d3f1n1t10n 4mless, there4 pr3d8s 4ll 4m & w1ll r3m41n
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#210132 - 08/04/04 08:59 AM Re: BC Basemap Viewer
Dru Sick Spray Bird Registered: 02/08/01 Posts: 30031 TRs: 29 Photos: 304 Loc: Collapsing State Vector	http://srmwww.gov.bc.ca/g/makeamap.html is the place to go, then at the bottom of the page click on the go to current map link. access the current <javascript:openMap('http://maps.gov.bc.ca/imf406/imf.jsp?site=lrdw_catalog_ ext')> map browser application please click here. _________________________ t3h v01d, b1 d3f1n1t10n 4mless, there4 pr3d8s 4ll 4m & w1ll r3m41n
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#210133 - 08/04/04 07:14 PM Re: BC Basemap Viewer
Ed_Seedhouse journeyman Registered: 10/02/03 Posts: 69 TRs: 1 Photos: 10 Loc: Victoria B.C. Canada	I'd just like to add that there is a nice server for worldwide sattelite pics down to 1/2" per pixel at http://onearth.jpl.nasa.gov/ I find zooming in on Vancouver Island is fun, but I obviously have a location bias. The Nomash valley is quite prominent and the whole geography of the area becomes quite plain - including the bright green clearcuts. Also, nice pics of Mt Ranier from space. _________________________ Ed Seedhouse
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#210134 - 08/05/04 09:49 AM Re: BC Basemap Viewer
jordop spray'prentice Registered: 02/13/02 Posts: 2722 TRs: 18 Photos: 199 Loc: The Cheeseburger Picnic	Quote: I'd just like to add that there is a nice server for worldwide sattelite pics down to 1/2" per pixel at http://onearth.jpl.nasa.gov/ I find zooming in on Vancouver Island is fun, but I obviously have a location bias. The Nomash valley is quite prominent and the whole geography of the area becomes quite plain - including the bright green clearcuts. Also, nice pics of Mt Ranier from space. Wow, that's a pretty cool time waster there! Seems very useful for checking out exactly actual existence of spur roads and differentitating between forest (dark green) and alder (light green!). However, it shows all rock as red and is shot from the south for this area, so all the SUPPPERSECRETE north aretes are in shadow Still, nice to dream about where you might have been this week if everything had gone according to plans Attachments 379864-comp\'d.jpg (477 downloads) _________________________ Never has your Buick found this forward a gear. -Richard Hugo, "Driving Montana"
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#210135 - 08/05/04 09:50 AM Re: BC Basemap Viewer
Dru Sick Spray Bird Registered: 02/08/01 Posts: 30031 TRs: 29 Photos: 304 Loc: Collapsing State Vector	all the rock IS red. _________________________ t3h v01d, b1 d3f1n1t10n 4mless, there4 pr3d8s 4ll 4m & w1ll r3m41n
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#210136 - 08/05/04 09:52 AM Re: BC Basemap Viewer
jordop spray'prentice Registered: 02/13/02 Posts: 2722 TRs: 18 Photos: 199 Loc: The Cheeseburger Picnic	eh'splain _________________________ Never has your Buick found this forward a gear. -Richard Hugo, "Driving Montana"
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#210137 - 08/05/04 09:54 AM Re: BC Basemap Viewer
Dru Sick Spray Bird Registered: 02/08/01 Posts: 30031 TRs: 29 Photos: 304 Loc: Collapsing State Vector	choss _________________________ t3h v01d, b1 d3f1n1t10n 4mless, there4 pr3d8s 4ll 4m & w1ll r3m41n
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#210138 - 08/05/04 09:59 AM Re: BC Basemap Viewer
jordop spray'prentice Registered: 02/13/02 Posts: 2722 TRs: 18 Photos: 199 Loc: The Cheeseburger Picnic	Ah! _________________________ Never has your Buick found this forward a gear. -Richard Hugo, "Driving Montana"
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#210139 - 08/05/04 06:09 PM Re: BC Basemap Viewer
Ed_Seedhouse journeyman Registered: 10/02/03 Posts: 69 TRs: 1 Photos: 10 Loc: Victoria B.C. Canada	>Seems very useful for checking out exactly actual existence of > spur roads Well, in areas I happen to know fairly well the roads I hapen to know are there are not really very prominent, but if you can see it you are pretty sure it's really there. But the fact that it's faint or nearly invisible doesn't necessarily seem to mean it isn't there and passable, on foot at least. > However, it shows all rock as red And not all that is red is rock. > and is shot from the south for this area, You wanna see something weird, zoom in on Baffin Island. Ed _________________________ Ed Seedhouse
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#210140 - 08/08/04 10:07 AM Latest address
Ed_Seedhouse journeyman Registered: 10/02/03 Posts: 69 TRs: 1 Photos: 10 Loc: Victoria B.C. Canada	http://srmwww.gov.bc.ca/g/makeamap.html Looks like this is the latest try at providing an official web page for this application. _________________________ Ed Seedhouse
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#210141 - 08/08/04 11:12 AM Re: Latest address
Dru Sick Spray Bird Registered: 02/08/01 Posts: 30031 TRs: 29 Photos: 304 Loc: Collapsing State Vector	hey ed that's the same link i posted last week _________________________ t3h v01d, b1 d3f1n1t10n 4mless, there4 pr3d8s 4ll 4m & w1ll r3m41n
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#210142 - 08/08/04 12:58 PM Re: Latest address
Ed_Seedhouse journeyman Registered: 10/02/03 Posts: 69 TRs: 1 Photos: 10 Loc: Victoria B.C. Canada	Quote: hey ed that's the same link i posted last week Heh. Well now you know you were right. _________________________ Ed Seedhouse
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#210143 - 09/02/04 08:44 PM Re: Latest address
Gary_Yngve spray'prentice Registered: 03/04/02 Posts: 3560 TRs: 36 Photos: 0 Loc: UW	anyone know if Alberta has something similar?
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#210144 - 09/03/04 03:47 PM Re: Latest address
Gary_Yngve spray'prentice Registered: 03/04/02 Posts: 3560 TRs: 36 Photos: 0 Loc: UW	Too bad the maps don't look as nice as the printed topo maps. I may go through with my evil plans to scan in a bunch of topos and stitch them together.
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#210145 - 09/03/04 04:48 PM Re: Latest address
PaulB addicted to cc.com Registered: 02/01/02 Posts: 624 TRs: 4 Photos: 22 Loc: North Vancouver	Quote: I may go through with my evil plans to scan in a bunch of topos and stitch them together. Save yourself the effort, if not some $, and check out Fugawi. C$100 gets you every topo map in the province, and their software (C$150) lets you stitch them together seamlessly. Good for hours of trip plannning fun!
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#210146 - 09/04/04 03:23 PM Re: Latest address
Gary_Yngve spray'prentice Registered: 03/04/02 Posts: 3560 TRs: 36 Photos: 0 Loc: UW	Sweet, I might just do that. I can check out maps free from the UW Library and use the on-campus large-format scanner, but it's probably better to plop down the money. My only hope would be that their data format isn't proprietary, i.e. I could convert and use the data for my own software.
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#210147 - 10/10/04 06:10 PM Re: BC Basemap Viewer
jordop spray'prentice Registered: 02/13/02 Posts: 2722 TRs: 18 Photos: 199 Loc: The Cheeseburger Picnic	Quote: I'd just like to add that there is a nice server for worldwide sattelite pics down to 1/2" per pixel at http://onearth.jpl.nasa.gov/ I find zooming in on Vancouver Island is fun, but I obviously have a location bias. The Nomash valley is quite prominent and the whole geography of the area becomes quite plain - including the bright green clearcuts. Also, nice pics of Mt Ranier from space. "The onearth WMS server has been restricted to NASA only due to overload. We are working on server improvements and will have the server open again for public access as soon as possible." But Terraserver's better anyway _________________________ Never has your Buick found this forward a gear. -Richard Hugo, "Driving Montana"
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#210148 - 07/15/06 11:43 AM Re: Latest address
bstach old hand Registered: 06/22/06 Posts: 908 TRs: 1 Photos: 37 Loc: Canada, eh	Has anybody used the Fugawi software? I want similar quality to the 1:50,000 maps I can purchase at MEC. And the ability to select and print my area of interest. I visited the website and it reads to me like a viewer is included in the $100 price. Does anybody out there have this? I'm wondering if it allows me to stitch maps together and print my area of interest (i hate it when the area I want to got to is at the edge of two maps). The Fugawi web site has a demo version of the advanced viewer for download. I guess what I am wondering is if the basic viewer will do what I want...I don't really need all the fancy GPS stuff in the advanced software. Edited by bstach (07/16/06 11:03 PM) _________________________ Day time friend and night time lover
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#210149 - 07/15/06 06:00 PM Re: Latest address
snoboy spray'prentice Registered: 09/11/02 Posts: 4109 TRs: 4 Photos: 58 Loc: Here, right here.	Quote: Sweet, I might just do that. I can check out maps free from the UW Library and use the on-campus large-format scanner, but it's probably better to plop down the money. My only hope would be that their data format isn't proprietary, i.e. I could convert and use the data for my own software. I know at least one of the map sets available for BC uses .png files for the map - quite portable. They associate with a .map file that is proprietary - but it's plain text if you look at it. Sorry - I am not sure which brand this is. _________________________ "Attention, the white zone is for weighting and unweighting only!"
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#687900 - 05/28/07 02:15 PM Re: Latest address [Re: snoboy]
LeeLau n00b Registered: 05/04/06 Posts: 38 TRs: 3 Photos: 0	The 1:50,000 maps are notoriously inaccurate. The TRIM data from the BC Basemaps are much more up-to-date/ A website I use to generate BIG maps of areas of interest is trail.brijn.nu. It extracts BC Basemap data and overlays it with GPS UTM grids in NAD83 format. Only problem - no placenames or placenames are very small Some examples of maps I've created are here. I marked up all the placenames myself with Photoshop Elements: http://www.leelau.net/ns.htm
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#716523 - 08/24/07 10:09 AM Re: Latest address [Re: LeeLau]
G-spotter Spray Master Registered: 12/20/01 Posts: 12164 TRs: 47 Photos: 352 Loc: free range	The BC Basemap access has changed significantly. The portal is now through a federal website: http://www.nric.ca/ The basemap data is now called "iMap BC". Once you get to the actual basemap, it's mostly the same, but it is harder to find a link to turn the contours on. It took me a couple of minutes to figure out how to do it. You have to add basemap layers because contours are not in the options provided in the layers that are already turned on. _________________________ Bagging a cougar is one of the most enjoyable sporting feats a young man can accomplish
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#717234 - 08/27/07 01:38 PM Re: Latest address [Re: G-spotter]
yasmar stranger Registered: 08/02/06 Posts: 6 TRs: 0 Photos: 2	At least for now, the good old basemap is still available with the direct link: http://maps.gov.bc.ca/imf50/imf.jsp?site=bc_basemap There is another interface at http://openmaps.gov.bc.ca/ This is similar to the one G-spotter mentions, but it seems easier to get contours and less clutter. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to want to show contours on glaciated regions.
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#717606 - 08/28/07 10:30 AM Free Canadian Digital Topos [Re: PaulB]
PaulB addicted to cc.com Registered: 02/01/02 Posts: 624 TRs: 4 Photos: 22 Loc: North Vancouver	Originally Posted By: PaulB Save yourself the effort, if not some $, and check out Fugawi. C$100 gets you every topo map in the province, and their software (C$150) lets you stitch them together seamlessly. Good for hours of trip planning fun! In other mapping news, I recently discovered that you can download, for free, any Canadian 1:50k or 1:250k topo from Natural Resources Canada's GeoGratis website. The map images are in TIFF format and include geospatial data. They can be viewed with any imaging software that supports TIFF, or they can be imported into mapping/GPS software packages like OziExplorer or Fugawi. I'm not sure how long this has been available, but it means you no longer need to buy maps from Etopo or Fugawi.
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#781854 - 03/13/08 01:42 PM Re: Free Canadian Digital Topos [Re: PaulB]
LeeLau n00b Registered: 05/04/06 Posts: 38 TRs: 3 Photos: 0	Google Earth just improved resolution for the Duffy area. For example you can now see Keith's hut
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