Park Maps of British Columbia

GeoBC Spatial Analysis Branch

Thompson Okanagan

Northern British Columbia

Vancouver Island

Cariboo Chilcotin Coast

The provincial parks maps project included Thompson Okanagan, Kootenay Rockies, Cariboo Chilcotin Coast, Vancouver Coast and Mountains, Vancouver Island, and Northern British Columbia. The project consisted of designing and creating the map sides of publication-quality, regional visitors' guides of British Columbia. The maps show the locations of provincial protected areas, highlight individual parks by the use of inset maps, and list the facilities available in the parks.

The format of the previous set of maps, which were developed in the early 1990s, was used as a general guide, and the data frame from an ArcGIS Desktop project of a recently created, large-scale, provincial wall map was used as a data layer and symbology template.

A major challenge with the main map included locating, acquiring, creating, and editing an appropriate roads file for the project. The challenge posed was not only to show enough roads but also not to show too many roads.

The final step for each map involved importing the facilities chart spreadsheet below the legend area. This was complicated because only the raw text from the spreadsheet would import properly. The font color, borders, and fill color would not import completely, so those elements had to be created manually in ArcMap.

Courtesy of GeoBC Spatial Anlaysis Branch, Integrated Land Management Bureau, Province of British Columbia.

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