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CANADA. ENVIRONMENT CANADA / ENVIRONNEMENT CANADA

1997-0399

Film

1 of 1

1980/1989 ?

Environment Canada ?

Film overview of the work of the Canadian Geographic Information system administered by Environment Canada. It shows: aerial shots of Canada, used to illustrate the complexities of making maps; inside the Energy, Mines and Resources Canada Map Office; the Department of National Defence Map and Chart Depot; rows of maps stored on shelves; different maps used for leisure, urban planning, industry and energy projects; the Vincent Massey Place building; the use of computers in map making and other cartographic tasks; photographing maps; checking maps and then tracing them to change features; early digitizaton of maps; printing maps; transcription onto computer cards; and manual corrections. The computer is able to put geographic features, human-made features and grids onto a map.

English

Libre

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