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Most detailed Canadian Maps (BRMB) would be nice!!!

Stephane Laforest shared this idea ago

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In Canada Backroad Mapbooks has the best detailed maps for Canadian outdoors with extensive trails and regional information on hiking, camping, angling, snowmobiling, hunting, skiing, paddling, ATVing and more.

I'm not the most tech savvy guy but knowing that BRMB has digitals maps Topo PDF, JPR, KMZ whatever that means, having LOCUS to have some kind of agreement to be able to access their map on LOCUS app would be the best. I've attached an example of there maps bellow.

I would like Locus developers to consider those maps for Canadians and visitors to explore this huge country!!

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Viajero Perdido ●

They have some good-quality (but pricey!) maps, trapped inside a very underwhelming app.

I paid the big bucks for their Garmin-format maps, and still refer to them occasionally for oilfield roads that nobody else seems to have mapped, though with the rising quality of OSM, I'm doing that less and less often.

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Stephane Laforest ●

I agree with you, the maps are getting pricey. I own a few books but I

just wish I could get that on my GPS Phone apps. If Locus would be able to get those

maps in their store or something similar (at a fair one-time fee or yearly subscriptions)

with layers similar to Openadromaps with checkboxes for snowmobile trails, atv

trails for example so the user can choose what appears on the main screen map.

BRMB app is somewhat like that but useless at the same time, the Company should

focus on providing maps and make it available/compatible to top Android GPS Software developers

this would be beneficial to everyone down to the users in my opinion.

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Petr Voldan ●

Thank you for idea. We'll try to contact them in next weeks or months. Really interesting map.

It seems that you have some experiences with Canadian maps. What about toporama map http://atlas.nrcan.gc.ca/toporama/en/index.html

Is toporama map comparable to BRMB ? Do you have any experience with toporama, please?

Thanks Petr

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Stephane Laforest ●

Toporama maps is nowhere near BRMB maps in canada i havent seen anybody doing a most accurate and detailed map then BRMB. Openstreetmap and Openandromap are better then toporama maps in Canada.

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Petr Voldan ●

Ohh thats really important because I thought that Toporama is the best topo map for Canada. So thank you :)

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Viajero Perdido ●

Toporama is, in my opinion, the worst topo map for Canada. The data is *decades* old, and the trails especially are hopelessly inaccurate. People keep importing this data (under the names CanVec or GeoBase, a "gift" from the government) into OSM, and I spend a lot of time repairing the damage.

BRMB is certainly best for obscure oilfield/logging roads, and I suppose they sell a lot of GPS maps to the oil industry (currently suffering) as a result. For recreational trails, I think OSM now is the best, thanks to the sheer numbers of people submitting trails. Within the OSM family, onlline, I think OCM is the best map, except that for contours in Alberta, they use hopelessly wrong contour data (GeoBase I assume, as explained at http://viewfinderpanoramas.org/dem3.html) whereas OAM (and LoMaps?) use much better SRTM data.

I remember BRMB switched providers for contour data a while back for their GPS maps, and I assume it was in the correct direction, eg to SRTM. Older BRMB and current OCM show creeks going up and down hills, which is just wrong.

PS, when giving feedback to BRMB about their new phone app, I did suggest they contact Locus about offering their maps through the Locus Store as well. But maybe it wasn't the best time to suggest that, when they were proud parents of a brand new app of their own...

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Stephane Laforest ●

Viajero Perdido seams to know more than me in those maps. I don't know about western Canada since I'm in New Brunswick as of here BRMP is top especially logging roads and arteries connecting those roads. As for OCM well I found Openandromap is more detailed by choosing what you want and need to appear on the map by selecting the checkboxes. that's here in the Est anyways!!!

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