On Feb 12, 2008 9:26 AM, Curt, WE7U <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Anyone know where I can get Canadian maps comparable to tiger maps?
> http://wiki.ampr2.net/nwaprs/XastirMaps > > Search there. There are Shapefile maps for Canada with the streets, > I think downloadable a province at a time. Look for geobase.ca, they have the NRN (National Road Network) available there, which will give you all the roads in the area you are interested in. I haven't checked to see how far along they are yet, some areas in Canada were not completed last time I looked. You will have to search elsewhere to find information such as provincial borders. I still have not found any decent hydrology shapefiles, nor populated area shapefiles available for free. > There are also topo maps for Canada. We have scripts in the > xastir/scripts directory for downloading these. Warning: They're > big! Toporama maps are not too bad. They aren't great, but they are better than looking at a white screen. The script for downloading the toporama tiles is written to grab all of Canada. This is a HUGE download, especially if you are only interested in New Brunswick. I don't bother with the Xastir script, but rather select the area I want tiles for using RadioMobile, and ask it to download the 250k and 50k tiles for the area. I then modified the Xastir script to skip downloading the tiles, but still create the index files for the tiles that I do have already downloaded. James VE6SRV _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
