http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/East-Science-Sector-ESS-provides-no-fee-access-to-Digital-Topo-Data-tp960p963.html
> Tracey and all,
>
> Is this as important as it seems...
>
> One of the major restrictions on community based GIS development in Canada
> has been the cost of getting access to the base maps on which community
> GIS could be built. (as compared to free access in the US which strongly
> stimiulated GIS development (and not just community GIS) there as compared
> to in Canada.)
>
> Does this meant that those basemaps are now freely accessible.
>
> MG
>
>
>
>
>> 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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