================================================ MAPS-L ** MAPS-L ** MAPS-L ** MAPS-L ** MAPS-L ================================================ Subject: Re: MAPS-L: Question about cataloging geologic maps Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 From: Marcel Fortin <[log in to unmask]> To: maps-l In reply to Linda's message: Hello, I hate to keep harping on this, but what are their plans for archiving this data, in what format and will some librarian in the future have to piece together road, topography, vegetation, and other data so that people can see what the place looked like at a particular point in time? Linda Zellmer *Marcel writes:* We (Association of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives and the Canadian Cartographic Association) were told at our joint conference this summer that Natural Resources Canada (the federal mapping body) does archive its topographic data independent of the area at Library and Archives Canada's specializing in geomatics archiving. We were also told that the data can be extracted from their archives but at a cost to the user. We were also told not to archive data ourselves since we might mislead our users with possibly outdated data. -- Marcel Fortin GIS and Map Librarian, University of Toronto 130 St. George Street, Toronto, ON M5S 1A5 ph. 416.978.1958 fax 416.946.0522