Toporama – Map Sources

The maps also show data from the Atlas of Canada’s Framework datasets at scales of 1:30 000 000, 1:7 500 000 and 1:1 000 000.

The National road network (NRN) and the Canadian Digital Elevation Data (CDED) are from the GeoBase Portal, a new federal, provincial and territorial government initiative. In addition the satellite image, CanImage, is also offered. If you would like more specific information about the currency or other details of any of this data, please go the Map Sources section.

Map Sources:

Atlas of Canada Framework Data

The Atlas of Canada framework layers include rivers, lakes, administrative boundaries, populated places, roads and rail lines. The 1:7 500 000 and the 1:1 000 000 scale data are the primary base frameworks used for all Atlas of Canada 6th Edition online maps. They are also available at 1:30 000 000 and 1:2 000 000.
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CanVec, Canada

CanVec is a digital cartographic reference product produced by Natural Resources Canada. CanVec originates from the best available data sources covering Canadian territory and offers quality topographic information in vector format that complies with international geomatics standards. CanVec is a multi-source product coming mainly from the National Topographic Data Base, the GeoBase initiative (www.geobase.ca) and the data update using Landsat 7 imagery coverage. CanVec product contains more than 90 topographic entities thematically organized into 11 distribution themes.
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Satellite Image – CanImage

CanImage is an image composed of three spectral bands originating from resampled Landsat 7 orthoimages. Data acquisition dates can vary between scenes, so the images may not contain current features such as new roads and urban development. Spectral bands have a pixel size of 15 m.
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Elevation Image – Canadian Digital Elevation Data (CDED) – GeoBase

The Canadian Digital Elevation Data (CDED) comes from the GeoBase Portal, a new federal, provincial and territorial government initiative. The CDED consists of an ordered array of ground elevations at regularly spaced intervals. The source digital data for CDED at scales of 1:50,000 and 1:250,000 is extracted from the hypsographic and hydrographic elements of the National Topographic Data Base (NTDB) or various scaled positional data acquired from the provinces and territories.
Read the Canadian Digital Elevation Data (CDED) metadata