East Science Sector (ESS) provides no fee access to Digital Topo Data
Posted by
Tracey P. Lauriault-2 on
Mar 23, 2007; 4:22pm
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/East-Science-Sector-ESS-provides-no-fee-access-to-Digital-Topo-Data-tp960.html
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.
>
>
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> 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.
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>
>
> New products available on April 1st 2007:
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> NTDB (National Topographic Data Base) Shape format / Geographic
> Coordinates
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> CanMatrix (Raster Data) GeoTiff format / UTM projection
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> CanImage (Satellite imagery) GeoTiff format / UTM projection
>
>
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> Also, you can download free data on GeoBase portal:
>
> www.GeoBase.ca
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> DEM (Digital Elevation Data)
>
> NRN (National Road Network)