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Re: Earth Science Sector (ESS) provides no fee access to Digital Topo Data

Posted by Hugh McGuire on Apr 04, 2007; 4:10pm
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/East-Science-Sector-ESS-provides-no-fee-access-to-Digital-Topo-Data-tp960p1002.html

look at that! they even have a little XML button in their sidebar. maybe there's hope yet.

h.

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On Apr 4, 2007, at 11:56 AM, Joel Rivard wrote:

It's now official.

Canada 's New Government Provides Free Online Access to Digital Mapping Data - http://www.news.gc.ca/cfmx/view/en/index.jsp?articleid=290039&


Joel


On 3/23/07, Tracey P. Lauriault <[hidden email]> wrote:
Earth Science not east!
sorry!
Tracey P. Lauriault wrote:

> wooo! Hoo!
> This is the result of the work of Map librarians, in particular
> //Heather McAdam, the Geomatics Librarian
> ( http://www.library.carleton.ca/madgic/maps/gisweb/index.htm) at
> Carleton University MADGIC (Maps and Data and Government Information
> /Centre - http://www.library.carleton.ca/madgic/index.html)/. This is
> the url to the campaign she spearheaded - http://www.mapsforcanadians.ca/.
>
>
>> In response to demands from users for no fee access to framework
>> geographic data and the increasing technological shift in the
>> marketplace, Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), is pleased to announce
>> that starting April 1st 2007, the Earth Sciences Sector (ESS) will
>> change the way its Digital Topographic Data (DTD) can be accessed. ESS
>> will initiate a change from a cost recovery environment to an
>> environment providing no fee access to its current DTD products.
>>
>>
>>
>> On April 1st, 2007, NRCan will start to make its existing DTD products
>> available through the Geogratis Web portal:
>>
>> www.GeoGratis.gc.ca
>>
>> Click on 'All Collections' on the left menu.
>>
>>
>>
>> New products available on April 1st 2007:
>>
>> NTDB (National Topographic Data Base) Shape format / Geographic
>> Coordinates
>>
>> CanMatrix (Raster Data) GeoTiff format / UTM projection
>>
>> CanImage (Satellite imagery) GeoTiff format / UTM projection
>>
>>
>>
>> Also, you can download free data on GeoBase portal:
>>
>> www.GeoBase.ca
>>
>> DEM (Digital Elevation Data)
>>
>> NRN (National Road Network)
>>
>
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