King Kirkland. Then Dobie, then Larder Lake, then Virginiatown. They left Kearns off the map, which is definitely there. I see they have Swastika and the almost non-existent Sesekenika. Keyson and Dugwal are debatable. Bourkes is also debatable. We connaught argue with Connaught. But I am not sure what I would say about Boston Creek. My standard is, if it has a speed reduction sign, it should at least be a tiny circle on the map.
What I would like to see as a standard from the CDN government we know and love is standard maps, (gawd knows our taxes have paid for them), with vectored DLG or suitable display formats which we don't have to pay 2 thousand dollars for software to display and to which we can add points or routes thereon, with one to 15,000 scale like we used to be able to obtain, populations, and a gazeteer and graphical table of distances to all major POI's on the map and to major centers, hospitals, and AP's within ~100 Kliks dependent on size.. joinable at the edges by a reprojection schema of some sort as in UTMP, gawd knows the software and display platforms have ubiquitously existed since gawd wore knee pants.. is this too much to ask.. but noo........ we have to struggle on with 15 dollar paper maps that are ever greater scale, and ever more out of date, and ever more unusable in the modern age. Can you afford 20 paper maps at 15 bucks a crack to go fishing and hunting in the back 40? given that they last one season and are in tatters.. or if plasticized can no longer be stuck in the pocket .. and no longer have half the trails and logging roads on them.. The last good map series we had was 1957. Most of the logging roads were one them, the abandoned mines, the towns, with some representation of size.. the place names matched what we know locally, the legends were on the back and extensive.
One place in Quebec has decent vector maps of Canada you can stick in a Garmin. They want the moon and their coverage of Canada is not even 15 percent. Fugawi has a few maps. Not many.
Quality is based on some 50K scale some 250 scale.
The airphotos of Canada were flown at 10,000 foot height to 1000 foot height with a 1 foot focal-length lens from 1930 to 1975. 10,000 foot height with a one foot plate equals 1:10,000 scale,e the lower height one to 1000 scale. From this maps were made for 75 years to 25 to 50 foot absolute accuracy.
From this in the digital age we get one to 50,000 to one to 250K scale maps. Most often one to one million, and out of date. Given that Landsat can be made to about one in 5,000 scale with absolute up to date accuracy and we can see that at any time, I don't see why we have to put up with crap at high prices. A company in Canada offered to fly the entire Country to produce radio vectored air photo strip maps digitally corrected, called orthophoto mosaic maps. Political and thematic natural icons are added later by digital methods with human control. Canada and GBR declined. African countries paid for the service and a set of Orthophoto maps were made of Nigeria to 50 foot accuracy in six months. they sell for less than conventionally produced paper maps.
A company should take land sat data, digitize it and produce added vectors to iconify boundaries, population centers, streets, natural themes, flaura, fauna, rock type and outcrop, soil, eskers, drumlins, lakes, rivers, rapids and falls, waterflow, areas of features length of roads, distance between points calculator, routes and distance of, portages, wetland, beaches, depths of water, lagoons, reefs, hospitals, schools, firestations, churches, first aid stations, bridges, width of roads, road surface, speed limits, elevations, local names, government service buildings, wharves, landing and and jetties, buoys and channels, high buildings, lookouts, landslide danger, average temperature and rainfall, railways and crossings, mines, lighthouses, and other POI's.
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