[Xastir] Canada Toporama Maps

[Tom Tessier]

Hi Curt,

Hmmm....I thought I wrote that routine a couple years ago and included it in
the sources. It used to grab the whole set. In fact, I found errors in their
maps designations on Elesmere Island.

-Tom
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Curt, WE7U" <archer at eskimo.com>
To: "Tom Tessier" <ttessier at trtdigital.ca>
Cc: <xastir at xastir.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 9:39 AM
Subject: Re: [Xastir] Canada Toporama Maps


> On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Tom Tessier wrote:
>
> > I stopped relying on the on-line Toporama site as an on-demand online
> > reference and downloaded the maps I needed to my local drive. Natural
> > Resources Canada makes the maps available on the basis that they expect
> > users to download them manually rather than as repeated downloads as
online
> > references like a Google Map or MapQuest reference. Toporama are bitmap
> > scans of the maps you can buy in hardcopy, which is why they are so big.
I
> > have found that NRCan makes changes to their server structures from time
to
> > time, and that adds to the confusion.
>
> Hi Tom, long time no hear...
>
> If we had a download script for Xastir that didn't download the
> entire country in one shot, it might be more useful to people.
> Perhaps someone should work on that.  Disk space and download speed
> can be a limiting factor for people.
>
> --
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