[Xastir] Re: Canadian topo maps

Curt, WE7U archer at eskimo.com
Mon Oct 11 12:18:43 EDT 2004


On Mon, 11 Oct 2004, Tom Robson, ve7did wrote:

> This may be asking the moon, but can these files be broken up such that "say"
> only BC & Alberta (or some coordinate boundaries) are downloaded?
> I suspect not, but just had to ask....

Ask Adi Linden.  He did the work to find these and write the initial
scripts.  I just repackages his scripts a bit.  It might not be too
difficult to tweak the scripts to snag certain ranges.

We also have a repository for them on one of Steve Dimse's servers,
so we could snag the data from there as well.

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