Message from discussion OT: Map of Canadian Rockies?

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From: Terry Pinnell <terrypinDEL...@THESEdial.pipex.com>
Newsgroups: uk.rec.walking,sci.geo.satellite-nav,sci.geo.cartography
Subject: Re: OT: Map of Canadian Rockies?
Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:04:05 +0100
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RsH <r...@idirect.com> wrote:

>On Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:47:10 +0100, Terry Pinnell
><terrypinDEL...@THESEdial.pipex.com> wrote:
>
>>During our holiday in a couple of weeks in the Canadian Rockies my
>>wife and I will be walking from Calgary, Banff, Lake Louise, Jasper
>>and Kananaskis Village. I'd appreciate hearing from anyone who can
>>offer any recommendations on maps covering them please.
>>
>>As usual I intend to plot our walks on return, from my GPS recordings.
>>So ideally I'd like digital maps I can use directly in Memory-Map. But
>>the only ones I've found so far are around US $90 (excluding tax and
>>delivery). So I'd be happy to scan paper maps and calibrate myself.
>>But maybe there are some online (free) sources I've not yet found?
>
>http://www.geobase.ca/geobase/en/index.html for free data... and you
>can download the topo maps for free that cover the area you want to
>walk in...
>
>RsH

Excellent, that looks like it will do nicely, thank you ;-)

Is there some shortcut to a 'standard topo' map? I'll get there
eventually I'm sure, but its UI is a far cry from Google maps!

--
Terry, East Grinstead, UK