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1917 Vancouver Mission Route Map - sm

1917 Vancouver Mission Route Map

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Today we have a scan of a Vancouver Mission (British Columbia) Route Map taken from The Automobile Blue Book published in 1917.
DMTI Spatial

DMTI Spatial chosen as provider of geospatial data to the Federal Government

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DMTI Spatial, a Canadian location intelligence company, has recently been awarded the Domestic Vector Data Set contract by the Ministry of Public Works and Government Service Canada (PWGSC) as a result of the exceptional quality of its CanMap® geospatial datasets. The exclusive contract will provide numerous government departments with critical location-based information to help make vital policy and planning decisions. In the past, the Canadian government has used DMTI Spatial’s data to support the operations of the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, the 2010 G20 Summit in Toronto and the G8 Summit in Huntsville, among other initiatives. This contract provides various federal government departments with critical location-based information to help make important policy and planning decisions affecting the lives of all Canadians.
City of Edmonton & ESRI online mapping tools

Free Data Sets for the City of Edmonton & ESRI online mapping tools

The City of Edmonton has been providing an online Open Data service to help make municipal information more accessible since 2009. They feel that through collaboration and innovation that they have become a leader in Open Government by using the latest technology to increase access to their information. One difference that Edmonton has from the other cities is that they provide the ability to visualize the data sets unsing online ESRI web mapping technology. This way allows users to better unserdtand what the data sets they are downloading consists of.