New maps and geodata from NRCan

Via NRCan, the agency invites users to browse the latest data collection and updates…

From NRCan… Natural Resources Canada invites you to browse our latest selection of map and data releases:

New Canadian Topographic Maps

NRCan announces the release of 324 new, updated or re-released Canadian Topographic Maps accessible via GeoGratis. This release includes new maps covering regions of Canada’s North previously unmapped at 1:50 000 scale, as well as updated maps for areas in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Ontario, Manitoba and Saskatchewan. See the list of newly released topographic maps on GeoGratis.

With this release, the number of Canadian Topographic Maps released as part of the CanTopo collection stands at 1302.

Paper copies of all Canadian Topographic Maps are also available through Regional Distributors of the Canada Map Office, and through Certified Map Printers who ensure local, high quality, on-demand plotting of topographic maps.

New 1:50 000 scale topographic data

NRCan announces the 7th release of CanVec vector topographic data, along with Toporama raster topographic data derived from CanVec. This release includes:

• Addition of 175 new datasets,

• Update of National Road Network (NRN) for six provinces and territories,

• 215 datasets now contain the entities “Contour” and “Elevation point” (metric),

• Correction of discrepancies.

Supplemental trails and limited-access roads data for the Lower Mainland area of British Columbia are also now available in a provisional form. This data was originally included in an early release of CanTopo maps, and is now being prepared for official release as part of CanVec in the Spring of 2011. The provisional data is available in the interim "as-is" and without full metadata at: http://ftp2.cits.rncan.gc.ca/pub/cantopo/bctrailsprovisional/

News from the Geographical Names Board of Canada

The Geographical Names Board of Canada (GNBC) has been the authority for geographical naming in Canada for over 100 years. The GNBC Secretariat can assist you in obtaining the most current and accurate geographical names data for your applications, as detailed in the following message to users on behalf of the Board.

New Geological Survey of Canada publications

NRCan is proud to announce the release of the first map of the new Canadian Geoscience Map (CGM) series, Geology, Southwestern McQuesten and Parts of Northern Carmacks, Yukon (CGM 7), available for download via GEOSCAN. This map is an output of the Geo-mapping for Energy and Minerals (GEM) program. The CGM series is the result of a new streamlined process for the collection, compilation and dissemination of geological information in both print-ready and GIS-ready formats.

New and re-released Geological Survey of Canada publications from September to December 2010 include:

• 1 Canadian Geoscience Map (1^st in this series!),

• 2 A-Series maps,

• 4 Current Research articles,

• 93 Open Files, and

• 141 Other publications.

Of the items above, 138 publications previously released in paper format have been re-released in digital form. These publications can be downloaded free of charge from GeoPub or are available from the Geological Survey of Canada Bookstore.

View the listings of new publications and re-released publications online or subscribe to ESS New Releases RSS feed.

New from GeoBase

Updates to the National Road Network (NRN) for Quebec, Manitoba and Saskatchewan, including Street Names and Place Names, are now available. Please visit GeoBase for more information.

Further announcements on new mapping and geospatial product releases by Natural Resources Canada will follow. For more information, please visit the GeoGratis "What’s New"