Farmers, ranchers, biologists, researchers and hikers could benefit from British Columbia’s new topographical maps accessible on mobile phones and other devices.
GeoBC has a series of free, high-resolution maps designed for mobile devices on which users can zoom in on small areas. The maps will also show the user’s current location.
Availability of more than 7,000 free maps of B.C., on a scale of 1:20,000, was announced by the B.C. government in a June 18 information bulletin.
“GeoBC’s popular Terrain Resource Information Management (TRIM) base map series has been redesigned to enable the GPS georeferencing functionality associated with mobile devices and allow users to zoom into small areas of the new maps without compromising detail,” said the bulletin.
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Users will be able to view elevation contours, roads, railways, airports, transmission lines, population centres, municipal and regional boundaries, lakes, waterways, wetlands, wooded areas, trails, campgrounds, coastlines, parks, protected areas, place names and local landmarks, it added.
GeoBC said the maps are popular in rural areas where other web-based applications, such as Google Maps, are not available because of limited internet access.
The maps can be found at http://geobc.gov.bc.ca/Topographic_Maps_KML_Viewer.html
