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Basemap Updates for Canada – March 2017

The third basemap update for Canada occurred this week and included both imagery and topographic map updates from across the country.

Back in February 2017, we announced that some of the scales for the province of Manitoba were published to the topographic basemap on ArcGIS Online, using data provided by the province through its Manitoba Land Initiative website. This week, the remaining 4 scales (1:9,028 to 1:1,128) were published. This covers the entire province and includes updates from the City of Brandon.

Two other updates occurred in Canada on the imagery basemap. Strathcona County, Alberta contributed 10 cm imagery from 2015. This replaces the previously published 2013 imagery of the same resolution. This imagery is available from the Strathcona open data website.

Changes in Sherwood Park. Left: 10 cm imagery from 2013; right: 10 cm imagery from 2015

The City of Vancouver provided 8 cm imagery from 2015 through its open data website. This replaces the previously published 10 cm imagery from 2011.

Putting on a new roof at BC Place. Left: 10 cm imagery from 2011; right: 8 cm imagery from 2015

The next Canadian content update for the imagery and topographic basemaps is expected towards the end of March.

For a complete list of current Community Map participants in Canada, visit http://maps.esri.ca/updates/tracking/.For previous Canadian basemap updates published in 2017, see the following blog posts:

About the Author

Paul Heersink is a cartographer and Program Manager of Esri Canada’s Roads & Addresses Program: an initiative that is aiming to build a seamless topographic basemap using contributor data. He has over 25 years of cartographic experience, working in both the public and private sectors. Paul has always been interested in mapping and drew his own atlas at the age of 10. He took a detour in his career through the fields of psychology and social work before returning to cartography.

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