Registered: May 2000
Location: Toronto, ON, Canada
Posts: 34

I stopped by the Delorme building and I seriously looked into a DeLorme unit a while back for a PP pro and Palm III while on a driving vacation along the east coast.

At the time, we were told that the Canadian government had some security issue at the time for allowing their maps to be used with GPS software like the ones that came with the GPS units but that something was in the works.

It's been 2 years since and still no Canadian maps available.

Is the land of the true north strong and free so paranoid about the few cities that dot the landscape?

Or is it that there are not enough handheld owners in the northern neighbours to justify making the product?

-Bill

Registered: Nov 1999
Location: bright side of the moon.
Posts: 996

I think it's the latter. Not enough demand.

On a side note, the Canadian gov't is currently involved in a revoloutionary project called 'Mercator'. I wrote a paper about this about 4 years ago solely based on how fascinating the project is.

It is an attempt to create a data warehouse with data points so that a user (military, commercial, etc.) can 'mine' the warehouse for huge amounts of geospatial information.

check out this link:

http://www.ndi.nf.ca/merccd/htm/

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Stealth-Mod.

Registered: Aug 2000
Location: Glen Burnie, Maryland
Posts: 205

Actually, the tie up appears to be with the Canadian government/Canadian map makers. Geodiscovery was planning to have Canadian maps available at release, but was unable to due to licensing issues with our neighbors to the north. They are still working with them to get the maps released and remained hopeful.

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