North Vancouver–Whistler

Natural Resources Canada—Centre for Topographic Information

Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) provides topographic map coverage of Canada at 1:50,000 and 1:250,000 scales. Over the past fifteen years, NRCan has focused on building and improving national coverage of vector geospatial data. Since 2009, a new topographic map production program has used this vector database to produce a new generation of 1:50,000-scale topographic maps. The map publishing process has been automated to the point where each map requires less than half a person-day, including text placement, for completion.

The map sheets selected for production are those which are deemed most in demand by the public and various government agencies, as well as of regions of Canada’s north previously unmapped at 1:50,000 scale. The region of Vancouver–Whistler, in British Columbia, was the first area targeted by the program to support the planning and preparations for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. These new maps are the first of 2,500 new topographic maps of Canada to be produced by NRCan over a three-year period, accessible through GeoGratis.

The two map sheets displayed, North Vancouver and Whistler, are representative of a block of fifty-four map sheets requested by security agencies to cover the entire geographic region of the Winter Games. These maps, which include topographic and toponymic information as well as administrative boundaries, were revised using provincial data and SPOT imagery contributed by GeoBC.

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