Ottawa plots making maps without paper – Canadian maps to go totally digital

Daniel Phelan sent over an interesting Globe And Mail article on plans to put Canadian Govt. topographic map data on the Internet where companies and individuals would be able to access the information, either free or for a fee, and then print it or pay a professional printer to do it.
John Dawson, acting director of Natural Resources Canada’s Centre for Topographic Information, figures that people are upset about the proposal because it is the latest in a series of changes to the map-making business that depart from the philosophy of the original craftsmen who treated cartography and map reading as an art.

October 6, 2005 by Uncategorized 0

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