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[burwelbo]

Does anyone know where you can download Canadian National PArk Data. In particular, I am looking for a good boundaries layer and trail data. The boundaries layer I have is probably 1:2,000,000.

Thanks in advance.
Bruce

[rudy]

Does anyone know where you can download Canadian National PArk Data. In particular, I am looking for a good boundaries layer and trail data. The boundaries layer I have is probably 1:2,000,000.

Thanks in advance.
Bruce

See Geogratis for national park boundaries.

[Jimbo]

The file you want on Geogratis is: Protarea which is also known as the protected area polygon shape file. You can create lines out of those polygons. Also you will need to do a quarry if your looking for the National Parks:

SELECT * FROM [Protarea Drawing] WHERE TYPE = "NP"

[frax]

You can also get a KML-file from Protected Planet, but that is likely based on the Geogratis data. You can examine it in the online interface there.

[burwelbo]

Thanks, got it.

I was also wondering what European data sources are available (free and for a fee). In particular I was looking for Italy and France.

Thanks
Bruce

[frax]

I was also wondering what European data sources are available (free and for a fee). In particular I was looking for Italy and France.

What kind of data, and at what scale... ?

[burwelbo]

I was lookin for 1:100 or 1:50 k.

[frax]

At that scale you probably have to go to national sources (which will likely not be free). For pay you might also want to look at the Collins Bartholomew databases (not sure what the scale is).

Then there is the GISCO datasets, and there might also be datasets from EEA that you can use - not sure about the scales, but it is probably more like 1:1mill or so.

GISCO

Oh - free data also includes Open Streetmap, of course.