free bc topo maps

here

Supa Sweet! Thx for the link

http://www.ibycus.com/ibycustopo/

All of Canada

Nick's link is awesome though.

Nick's link is awesome though.

yeah, just not as awesome as your's though right?

The provincial PDF's are geo-referenced so is you use PDF Maps on the iPhone/Android you can see where you are.

http://www.geobc.gov.bc.ca More provincial data

http://store.usgs.gov/b2c_usgs/b2c/start/(xcm=r3standardpitrex_prd)/.do US maps

http://geogratis.cgdi.gc.ca/geogratis/Home?lang=en Federal 1:20k maps

https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=13/50.0996/-122.9610 Open street map use the in browser ID editor to add your own trails

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mountain_biking Use these tags to tag MTB trails properly

http://www.opencyclemap.org Open street map with trails.

http://openmtbmap.org Exports to garmin.img files with trails.

http://www.mappingsupport.com/p/gmap4.php free topo maps for Canada and USA plus Open Street/Cycles maps for everywhere else in a nice Google Maps type interface. Just check out the options in the top right hand corner.
You can also overlap any gpx file (assuming it's on-line somewhere and can identify the file location - I use this to host my own gpx files)

yeah, just not as awesome as your's though right?

I wasn't sure if his link was downloadable(is that even a word?). I use the one I linked to for my Garmin 62 and it worked pretty well. I bought a Backroads BC map for my Garmin Montana and I'm not sure it was worth the price of admission.

If I was just browsing via the computer I would likely use Nick's link.

I didn't want Nick to think I was trying to steal his thunder hence the post.

If you thought that I thought mine was better than his….nope, just different options for different people.

I wasn't sure if his link was downloadable(is that even a word?). I use the one I linked to for my Garmin 62 and it worked pretty well. I bought a Backroads BC map for my Garmin Montana and I'm not sure it was worth the price of admission.

If I was just browsing via the computer I would likely use Nick's link.

I didn't want Nick to think I was trying to steal his thunder hence the post.

If you thought that I thought mine was better than his….nope, just different options for different people.

check your EWBSD, i think it may not be working properly.

Want to know where's on fire in the US or Canada?
http://caltopo.com/map.html#ll=48.41759,-120.3191[HTML_REMOVED]z=11[HTML_REMOVED]b=f[HTML_REMOVED]a=modis

Sorry, I'm a map geek…

while we're on the topic of maps, anybody know of a place with a plotter that will print google maps for you?

like stringing a few together to get wall sized maps?

while we're on the topic of maps, anybody know of a place with a plotter that will print google maps for you?

I'd be interested in that too.

The way you could do it so you get high quality is take a map tile server (e.g. bing) but instead of using an existing javascript API create a simple HTML page that creates a grid of images for the next level of detail zoomed in than you want. Then you get 2x the pixels per inch when you want to print it. Then take that html file in a browser and convert to a PDF for printing.

If using the government topo maps you could look at using www.gdal.org to clip and seam images together into a larger maps.

What I'm currently working on is the ability to take open street map vector data supplemented with my own data and produce geo-referenced PDF's from that. Then I can get I nice big map with smooth lines rather than pixelated jpegs from a tile server. Biggest challenge right now is that when you download OSM data it doesn't always give you all the vertices for lines or polygons in a given download area.

Yeah I know you can do it using ESRI tools but I'm to cheap and where is the fun if you don't code it all from scratch.

I'd be interested in that too.

The way you could do it so you get high quality is take a map… lots of :nerd: speek

how about i just buy a plotter and you send me the files to print?

Yeah I know you can do it using ESRI tools but I'm to cheap and where is the fun if you don't code it all from scratch.

how cheap are you ?? http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/arcgis-for-home
$100 with all the extensions!!! (12 month licence)

but hey if you love to code…….have at er!