The National Film Board of Canada’s 1967 documentary on the Canada Geographic Information System, one of the earliest GIS’s (from the 1960s), is now on YouTube:
The data from the Canada Land Inventory (CLI) was almost lost; this web page describes the labor-of-love process of recovering it and converting it to modern GIS formats. The data is now freely available at the Canada Land Inventory page; an updated version of the soils data is available here.
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- GIS Data For US National Parks And Monuments
- Rocks And Dirt – Geology And Soil Maps Of The US And World
- Free Digital Geographic Data For Canada
- Downloadable Large-Format Historical Maps
- An Easier Way To Convert Shapefiles to Text/Spreadsheet Format
- Convert TIGER Census Shapefiles (And General Shapefiles As Well) Into Thematic Google Earth KML Files
