Natural Resources Canada has decided to reverse an earlier decision to stop printing hardcopy maps.
CBC News Report: "Natural Resources Minister Gary Lunn announced that the Conservative government has yanked that plan off its course, and the map office will remain open. Kathleen Olson, a spokeswoman for Lunn, said Natural Resources Canada received a flood of letters protesting the planned closure. [...] She said paper maps are vital to many people, including researchers, emergency services personnel and outdoor enthusiasts."
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This is a great blog!! Every province and territory should have one throughout CASARA. We just dodged the bullet on no more paper maps. I've just catalogued 64 1:50,000 topo maps we received a couple months ago. Several of the maps were printed on a plotter. NRCan will no longer print maps that are not in demand. One map was even **photocopied**!?!?! One map was a fancy colour image which I first mistook for a 1:250,000 topo. NRCan obviously wants to get out of paper map production. CASARA needs to get ready to print its own maps. Where are those CASARA plotters? Who is cranking out maps on them?
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