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I have also always though this would be a great idea. At the moment I
have access to the GIS lab and plotter at the tech-school I am
attending.

Yes it is very nice to be able to print out maps at whatever scale you
want with a center point of your choosing. The other great thing about
using the GIS lab is I can customize what info I want on it (elevation,
cover types, soil types, stand ages etc.)

For areas where this custom map printing is not available I would
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I have also always though this would be a great idea. At the moment I
have access to the GIS lab and plotter at the tech-school I am
attending.

Yes it is very nice to be able to print out maps at whatever scale you
want with a center point of your choosing. The other great thing about
using the GIS lab is I can customize what info I want on it (elevation,
cover types, soil types, stand ages etc.)

For areas where this custom map printing is not available I would
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I have also always though this would be a great idea. At the moment I
have access to the GIS lab and plotter at the tech-school I am
attending.

Yes it is very nice to be able to print out maps at whatever scale you
want with a center point of your choosing. The other great thing about
using the GIS lab is I can customize what info I want on it (elevation,
cover types, soil types, stand ages etc.)

For areas where this custom map printing is not available I would
suggest checking your nearest University or tech-school with a good GIS
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Actually the other thing I've discovered recently that probably deserves
a link is "OpenStreetMap" http://www.openstreetmap.org

Which is basically a fully open, wikipedia-style mapping resource for
the entire planet. Setting up a plotting service for OpenStreetmap
maps would be awesome, because no royalties would be due.

In my area, I think it currently lacks coverage of footpaths, rights of
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Actually the other thing I've discovered recently that probably deserves
a link is "OpenStreetMap" http://www.openstreetmap.org

Which is basically a fully open, wikipedia-style mapping resource for
the entire planet. Setting up a plotting service for OpenStreetmap
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In my area, I think it currently lacks coverage of footpaths, rights of
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Actually the other thing I've discovered recently that probably deserves
a link is "OpenStreetMap" http://www.openstreetmap.org

Which is basically a fully open, wikipedia-style mapping resource for
the entire planet. Setting up a plotting service for OpenStreetmap
maps would be awesome, because no royalties would be due.

In my area, I think it currently lacks coverage of footpaths, rights of
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mark williamson said:

Actually the other thing I've discovered recently that probably deserves
a link is "OpenStreetMap" http://www.openstreetmap.org

doesn't really show much in Canada, not even secondary highways. It
does show Totzke, SK a town that does not and never did exist but is
marked on many Saskatchewan maps. 🙂

Fairly impressive in the UK though.

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mark williamson said:

Actually the other thing I've discovered recently that probably deserves
a link is "OpenStreetMap" http://www.openstreetmap.org

doesn't really show much in Canada, not even secondary highways. It
does show Totzke, SK a town that does not and never did exist but is
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mark williamson said:

Actually the other thing I've discovered recently that probably deserves
a link is "OpenStreetMap" http://www.openstreetmap.org

doesn't really show much in Canada, not even secondary highways. It
does show Totzke, SK a town that does not and never did exist but is
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saskatchewanian said:

doesn't really show much in Canada, not even secondary highways. It does
show Totzke, SK a town that does not and never did exist but is marked
on many Saskatchewan maps. 🙂

Fairly impressive in the UK though.

I did look at Canada at one point. I must admit, I wasn't sure to what
extent that was due to lack of info and to what extent it was due to
large portions of Canada being rather empty! 😉 I hope you don't find
that too offensive! I just don't have a very good idea what Canada is
supposed to look like 😉

Why is Totzke on maps if it doesn't exist? Is it a copyright easteregg
designed to catch folks who are simply copying map info? If so, it
probably shouldn't be on openstreetmap!

The UK coverage is pretty good and I seem to recall that they recently
finished the Netherlands entirely (!). Nice thing is that basically
anyone can get an account and add stuff to the map. Even if the
altruistic motivation isn't appealing, it's kinda nice to have some
place to share notes on the lie of the land!

They do lack elevation information at the moment (as far as I know)
which could limit the map's usefulness for some purposes!

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saskatchewanian said:

doesn't really show much in Canada, not even secondary highways. It does
show Totzke, SK a town that does not and never did exist but is marked
on many Saskatchewan maps. 🙂

Fairly impressive in the UK though.

I did look at Canada at one point. I must admit, I wasn't sure to what
extent that was due to lack of info and to what extent it was due to
large portions of Canada being rather empty! 😉 I hope you don't find
that too offensive! I just don't have a very good idea what Canada is
supposed to look like 😉

Why is Totzke on maps if it doesn't exist? Is it a copyright easteregg
designed to catch folks who are simply copying map info? If so, it
probably shouldn't be on openstreetmap!

The UK coverage is pretty good and I seem to recall that they recently
finished the Netherlands entirely (!). Nice thing is that basically
anyone can get an account and add stuff to the map. Even if the
altruistic motivation isn't appealing, it's kinda nice to have some
place to share notes on the lie of the land!

They do lack elevation information at the moment (as far as I know)
which could limit the map's usefulness for some purposes!

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saskatchewanian said:

doesn't really show much in Canada, not even secondary highways. It does
show Totzke, SK a town that does not and never did exist but is marked
on many Saskatchewan maps. 🙂

Fairly impressive in the UK though.

I did look at Canada at one point. I must admit, I wasn't sure to what
extent that was due to lack of info and to what extent it was due to
large portions of Canada being rather empty! 😉 I hope you don't find
that too offensive! I just don't have a very good idea what Canada is
supposed to look like 😉

Why is Totzke on maps if it doesn't exist? Is it a copyright easteregg
designed to catch folks who are simply copying map info? If so, it
probably shouldn't be on openstreetmap!

The UK coverage is pretty good and I seem to recall that they recently
finished the Netherlands entirely (!). Nice thing is that basically
anyone can get an account and add stuff to the map. Even if the
altruistic motivation isn't appealing, it's kinda nice to have some
place to share notes on the lie of the land!

They do lack elevation information at the moment (as far as I know)
which could limit the map's usefulness for some purposes!

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mark williamson said:

Why is Totzke on maps if it doesn't exist?

There is a bridge that goes over the railway tracks about 30km
north-west of my home town. This has always been called the Totzke
bridge. I had no idea why and did some research. Apparently CP Rail
built towns every 10 miles along the track and they decided to name
this one Totzke after a farmer in the area. The bridge is located about
1km from where the town was supposed to be built but it sort of never
happened. Nobody ever moved there, the elevator was never built and now
it is just a bridge over an empty rail bed in the middle of nowhere and
a supposed town-site that is a grain field. the tracks were removed in
1995 and the "town" was removed from the official Saskatchewan road
maps in 1999.

To get back on topic, Google earth is really good until you try
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mark williamson said:

Why is Totzke on maps if it doesn't exist?

There is a bridge that goes over the railway tracks about 30km
north-west of my home town. This has always been called the Totzke
bridge. I had no idea why and did some research. Apparently CP Rail
built towns every 10 miles along the track and they decided to name
this one Totzke after a farmer in the area. The bridge is located about
1km from where the town was supposed to be built but it sort of never
happened. Nobody ever moved there, the elevator was never built and now
it is just a bridge over an empty rail bed in the middle of nowhere and
a supposed town-site that is a grain field. the tracks were removed in
1995 and the "town" was removed from the official Saskatchewan road
maps in 1999.

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mark williamson said:

Why is Totzke on maps if it doesn't exist?

There is a bridge that goes over the railway tracks about 30km
north-west of my home town. This has always been called the Totzke
bridge. I had no idea why and did some research. Apparently CP Rail
built towns every 10 miles along the track and they decided to name
this one Totzke after a farmer in the area. The bridge is located about
1km from where the town was supposed to be built but it sort of never
happened. Nobody ever moved there, the elevator was never built and now
it is just a bridge over an empty rail bed in the middle of nowhere and
a supposed town-site that is a grain field. the tracks were removed in
1995 and the "town" was removed from the official Saskatchewan road
maps in 1999.

To get back on topic, Google earth is really good until you try
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mark williamson said:

It sounds like a great idea for a service - in fact I've been saying
that they ought to do it for ages, not having realised that they
already do! I'm particularly enthusiastic about this because I live on
a boundary between several of their standard Explorer maps, which makes
it difficult to plot routes in the surrounding countryside.

A while ago I would have been very interested in that, as a lot of my
routes seem to just cross the border from one map to another.

However, I've recently got Memory Map on my PC, which not only allows
you to print whatever area of the map you want (although you're limited
to the size paper that your printer can do), but you can use it for
roure planning, plotting, elevation calculation and all sorts. The
maps can be downloaded to my PDA/phone, and routes and stuff can be
transferred to a GPS unit.

Works great for me 😄

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It sounds like a great idea for a service - in fact I've been saying
that they ought to do it for ages, not having realised that they
already do! I'm particularly enthusiastic about this because I live on
a boundary between several of their standard Explorer maps, which makes
it difficult to plot routes in the surrounding countryside.

A while ago I would have been very interested in that, as a lot of my
routes seem to just cross the border from one map to another.

However, I've recently got Memory Map on my PC, which not only allows
you to print whatever area of the map you want (although you're limited
to the size paper that your printer can do), but you can use it for
roure planning, plotting, elevation calculation and all sorts. The
maps can be downloaded to my PDA/phone, and routes and stuff can be
transferred to a GPS unit.

Works great for me 😄

STM

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mark williamson said:

It sounds like a great idea for a service - in fact I've been saying
that they ought to do it for ages, not having realised that they
already do! I'm particularly enthusiastic about this because I live on
a boundary between several of their standard Explorer maps, which makes
it difficult to plot routes in the surrounding countryside.

A while ago I would have been very interested in that, as a lot of my
routes seem to just cross the border from one map to another.

However, I've recently got Memory Map on my PC, which not only allows
you to print whatever area of the map you want (although you're limited
to the size paper that your printer can do), but you can use it for
roure planning, plotting, elevation calculation and all sorts. The
maps can be downloaded to my PDA/phone, and routes and stuff can be
transferred to a GPS unit.

Works great for me 😄

STM

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hey thats really quite cool, i'm quite impressed. Watch out for google
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