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OT: Map of Canadian Rockies?

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Terry Pinnell

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Jul 2, 2009, 3:47:10 AM7/2/09
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During our holiday in a couple of weeks in the Canadian Rockies my
wife and I will be walking from Calgary, Banff, Lake Louise, Jasper
and Kananaskis Village. I'd appreciate hearing from anyone who can
offer any recommendations on maps covering them please.

As usual I intend to plot our walks on return, from my GPS recordings.
So ideally I'd like digital maps I can use directly in Memory-Map. But
the only ones I've found so far are around US $90 (excluding tax and
delivery). So I'd be happy to scan paper maps and calibrate myself.
But maybe there are some online (free) sources I've not yet found?

--
Terry, East Grinstead, UK

RsH

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Jul 2, 2009, 5:20:09 PM7/2/09
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http://www.geobase.ca/geobase/en/index.html for free data... and you
can download the topo maps for free that cover the area you want to
walk in...

RsH

Terry Pinnell

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Jul 3, 2009, 1:04:05 AM7/3/09
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RsH <r...@idirect.com> wrote:

Excellent, that looks like it will do nicely, thank you ;-)

Is there some shortcut to a 'standard topo' map? I'll get there
eventually I'm sure, but its UI is a far cry from Google maps!

RsH

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Jul 3, 2009, 1:05:10 PM7/3/09
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On Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:04:05 +0100, Terry Pinnell
<terrypi...@THESEdial.pipex.com> wrote:

Click on the topo map index, then click on the map that shows up in
the area you want and keep clicking until you are down to the 50,000
map of the area you want, then select that for download. Fairly
straight-forward ... just keep on clicking...

RsH

Terry Pinnell

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Jul 3, 2009, 5:51:19 PM7/3/09
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RsH <r...@idirect.com> wrote:

Sorry if I'm making heavy weather of this, but I don't really follow
what you mean:
http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s247/terrypin999/GeoBase-UI.jpg

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