Don_Serl Posted July 8, 2003 Posted July 8, 2003 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! Quote
Dru Posted July 8, 2003 Posted July 8, 2003 The BC Basemap is usually down for maintenance on Sunday evenings. Quote
snoboy Posted July 8, 2003 Posted July 8, 2003 (edited) 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 July 8, 2003 by snoboy Quote
Dru Posted July 8, 2003 Posted July 8, 2003 I honestly thought everybody already knew about the BC Basemap until about a month ago. Quote
Ed_Seedhouse Posted December 10, 2003 Posted December 10, 2003 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/. Quote
Don_Serl Posted March 14, 2004 Author Posted March 14, 2004 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, Quote
Ed_Seedhouse Posted July 11, 2004 Posted July 11, 2004 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 Quote
Dru Posted July 12, 2004 Posted July 12, 2004 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. Quote
Dru Posted August 4, 2004 Posted August 4, 2004 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. Quote
Ed_Seedhouse Posted August 5, 2004 Posted August 5, 2004 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. Quote
jordop Posted August 5, 2004 Posted August 5, 2004 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 Quote
Ed_Seedhouse Posted August 6, 2004 Posted August 6, 2004 >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 Quote
Ed_Seedhouse Posted August 8, 2004 Posted August 8, 2004 http://srmwww.gov.bc.ca/g/makeamap.html Looks like this is the latest try at providing an official web page for this application. Quote
Ed_Seedhouse Posted August 8, 2004 Posted August 8, 2004 hey ed that's the same link i posted last week Heh. Well now you know you were right. Quote
Gary_Yngve Posted September 3, 2004 Posted September 3, 2004 anyone know if Alberta has something similar? Quote
Gary_Yngve Posted September 3, 2004 Posted September 3, 2004 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. Quote
PaulB Posted September 3, 2004 Posted September 3, 2004 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! Quote
Gary_Yngve Posted September 4, 2004 Posted September 4, 2004 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. Quote
jordop Posted October 11, 2004 Posted October 11, 2004 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 Quote
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