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B.C. Base Mapping

Here’s an article from itbusiness.ca about British Columbia’s Base Mapping and Geomatic Services branch, a part of the provincial government’s Integrated Land Management Bureau. The article covers some of the applications of the branch’s data at a fairly general level. The branch’s web site has only a little available for download in the free section, none of which is very detailed; it’s mostly for-pay digital data.

Posted on Monday, March 20, 2006 at 9:34 AM
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Yes, free large-scale data is pretty hard to find in BC. Some communities (Kamloops for one - http://www.city.kamloops.bc.ca/downloads/GIS/geodata.shtml) offer it up for download, but these are rare.

Another source for smaller-scale data (there’s a topologically intelligent 1:50k hydrographic layer under watershed_atlas) is available here: ftp://ftp.env.gov.bc.ca/dist/arcwhse

No idea how long that will stay around though; the Ministry of Environment hasn’t existed for about five years. I’m wondering if that site is updated on purpose, or because of some long-lost cron job.

Jason

Jason Birch | 03/20/2006 at 10:11 PM | #

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