Selected Online Maps
Current Issues Maps
Enbridge Northern Gateway Route videoEnbridge Northern Gateway Route map
Pipeline map -CAPP
BC Oil and Gas maps
Map Categories:
- UVic and Victoria area maps
- General - world maps, atlases, comprehensive sites
- Topographic/Bathymetric - mapping sites and sources
- Environment - geology, climate, environmental atlases, forestry, parks, other land information
- People - history, population/census, electoral
- Cities and Street Maps - municipal govt. maps; worldwide address finding, directions
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UVic and Victoria area maps
- McPherson Library Floor Maps - updates soon!
- University of Victoria Maps and Buildings - includes 3D buildings for Google Earth
- Emergency Telephones and Public Access Telephones
- ActiveU Trails & Walks
- Capital Regional District (CRD) Atlas -includes Harbours Atlas
- University of Victoria Community Green Map - choose the Webmap
- Islands Trust -Gulf Islands Trust Area Mapping
- Victoria Weather Network network of 20 school weather stations, mapping temperature, wind, rain and more
- Victorienteers orienteering maps for local parks (note: printed versions are higher resolution)
- VI History history of Vancouver Island, and Canadian history during the late 19th and early part of the 20th century.
- Bathymetry of Cadboro Bay, Oak Bay and area from NOAA chart 18433
- Vancouver Island Health Authority Population and Health Statistics
- UVic Special Collections digital collection of Victoria Fire Insurance Maps and early Victoria historical maps
General
- Atlas of Canada (includes outline maps and maps on various topics)
- Canadian Geographic
- Country Insights (Canada - Foreign Affairs)
- Geogratis (Canadian maps and data)
- The Geography Network (Canadian maps and data)
- GeoPortail - IGN's geoportal (en francais)
- Map Central - Bedford/St.Martin's - outline maps, incl. historical and classical
- The Map Place (B.C. government maps)
- MapMaker Interactive (National Geographic)
- National Atlas of the United States
- Perry-Castaneda Map Collection, (U. of Texas: maps of countries and regions, including outline maps)
- United Nations
Topographic, bathymetric
- Toporama (online version from National Atlas of Canada site)
- Digital (scanned) National Topographic Series maps: Geogratis site --CanTopo are new maps, Canmatrix are older
- Topographic Map Search (via National Atlas of Canada)
- MSR maps (U.S.)
- Canadian Hydrographic Service (includes indexes to nautical charts in Map Library)
- NOAA (U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) nautical charts are available online
- USGS EarthExplorer
Environment - climate, geology, soils, ecology/vegetation
- AfricaMap - hosted by Harvard University.
- Agriculture Canada
- B.C. Geological Survey - Geology maps online
- B.C. Ministry of Energy and Mines
- BC Parks
- Biogeoclimatic Ecosystem Maps (Ministry of Forests)
- Canada Land Inventory maps -download from Geogratis
- Capital Regional District (CRD) Atlas -includes Harbours Atlas
- Community Mapping Network (Natural resource information and maps for communities in BC)
- Conservation Geoportal (links to maps and data)
- Forestry maps of Canada
- GeoBC Gateway - comprehensive site for B.C. govt. publications, maps and data
- GeoScan database (search for Geological Survey of Canada maps, includes scanned GSC maps)
- Min Files (Mineral Files of B.C.)
- Natural Earth - world physical map at 1.24 km. resolution
- Natural Resources Canada Mapping products- includes topographic mapping, geology, and more
- Open Files (B.C. Mineral information)
- Soil landscapes of Canada
- UNEP Maps and Graphics
- Wind erosion risk
People - history, statistics, elections, postal areas, social
- Aboriginal Languages
- American Memory Project includes some Canadian maps
- ArchiviaNet (Library and Archives Canada) - includes early census mapping
- BC Archives includes some digitised historical maps
- BC Hydro transmission maps
- BC Stats Mapping and Geography maps, data, reports
- David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
- CANSIM from StatsCan
- Elections BC (also includes census profiles of provincial electoral areas)
- Elections Canada voter information service (includes maps)
- FSA postal area maps
- Global Distribution of Poverty (CIESIN)
- Historic Cities
- Saw Mills in Canada
- Historical Atlas of Canada Online Learning Project
- Historical Map Society of B.C.
- In Search of Your Canadian Past: The Canadian County Atlas Project (Ontario counties,1870s-1890s)
- UVic Special Collections digital collection of early B.C. historical maps
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Page updated: Aug. 2012