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April 06, 2005
Interactive Canadian Atlas
The Royal Canadian Geographical Society has put the country on the map in an new interactive, web-based atlas. According to a description on the main page it says it:
"...brings cartography to life with exciting graphics and animation. This state-of-the-art interactive atlas allows you to explore Canada in a way you’ve never experienced before, and helps the Society to fulfill our mission “to make Canada better known."
It is suppose to allow you to zoom in on maps, and it adds overlays of information that links to pages with a lot more detail — such as Canada's history, culture, people and geography.
The highest zoom setting shows everything within 20 kilometers. As an example I've posted below and marked with a red X where MacLellans Cottages (family business) is located.
This site is definitely worth a bookmark but you may need to set aside some time to explore it. I found the interactive maps very, very slow. It may have something to do with the server load. The site was featured today on the CBC website, so I expect it is receiving a large amount of traffic today.
Posted by Steve MacLellan at April 6, 2005 11:48 AM
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