Message from discussion OT: Map of Canadian Rockies?

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From: RsH <r...@idirect.com>
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Subject: Re: OT: Map of Canadian Rockies?
Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:20:09 -0400
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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