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#210148 - 07/15/06 11:43 AM Re: Latest address
bstach bstach addicted to cc.com Registered: 06/22/06 Posts: 614 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 snoboy spray'prentice Registered: 09/11/02 Posts: 3965 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 LeeLau n00b Registered: 05/04/06 Posts: 32	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 G-spotter sprayer Registered: 12/20/01 Posts: 9293 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 yasmar stranger Registered: 08/02/06 Posts: 6	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 PaulB addicted to cc.com Registered: 02/01/02 Posts: 586 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 LeeLau n00b Registered: 05/04/06 Posts: 32	Google Earth just improved resolution for the Duffy area. For example you can now see Keith's hut
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