Maps of Canada

• Enter address to view map.  Nice animated zoom in from North America down to the surroundings of your entered address.  Enter two addresses to get detailed driver's directions 
• User-friendliness: 3.5/5
• Printer-friendliness: 1/5
• Special Features: Personal Setting, Maps from Europe, Brazil, North America, and Middle East all in one site.  Based on Google Maps but a more user-friendly way to search for addresses than Google.
• Must zoom in to very large scale to see neighbourhood streets. 

• Click "Go to Maps"; great atlas for physical features.  Enter name of lakes, rivers, and mountains, etc and get the location of the place. 
• French and English  
• User-friendliness: 3/5
• Printer-friendliness: 4/5
• Special Features: Searchable natural features, English / French interface
• Insufficient city info.  Not for urban travel at all. 

• Flash (interactive) maps of the following cities:
• Alberta: Banff, Calgary, Canmore, Drumheller, Edmonton, Ft. McMurray, Leduc-Nisku, Lethbridge, Red Deer
• BC: Burnaby, Campbell River, Fernie, Golden, Kamloops, Kelowna, Kimberley, Mt. Washington, Nanaimo, Osoyoos, Penticton, Port Hardy, Radium Hot Spring, Salmon Arm, Sooke, Tofino, Uclulet, Vancouver (incl. Burnaby, Coquitlam, Delta, Langley, New Westminster, North Vancouver, Port Coquitlam, Richmond, South Surrey, Surrey, West Vancouver, and White Rock, on separate maps), as well as Vernon, Victoria, and Whistler
• Manitoba: Churchill
• New Brunswick: Fredericton, Moncton, St John
• Newfoundland: St. John's
• Northwest Territories: Yellowknife
• Nova Scotia: Halifax,
• Ontario: London, Ottawa, Toronto (incl. Mississagua on separate map)
• PEI: Charlottetown, Summerside
• Québec: Mont Tremblant, Montréal
• Saskatchewan: Saskatoon
• User-friendliness: 3.5/5
• Printer-friendliness: 4/5
• Should work on integrating map sheets that are side by side (like the maps of suburbs of  Vancouver)

• High Definition satellite photo
• User-friendliness: 4/5
• Printer-friendliness: 4/5
• Special Features: Hybrid Maps, i.e., highway info projected on satellite images.  Images are scaled and projections are very accurate
• Good zoom in and zoom out function
• Detailed info only appears at appropriate levels to avoid cluttering the map.

• Region by region road map, click on the region to zoom in.  Contains major highways.
• User-friendliness: 4/5
• Printer-friendliness: 2/5
• Special Features: N/A
• No detailed maps of urban regions.   

• Mineral occurrences and rock types
• User-friendliness: 3/5
• Printer-friendliness: 2/5
• Special Features: N/A
• Locations of cities, ski hills, campgrounds.  The user can select a point of interest from a pull-down menu, and the window will display the appropriate map area with a description of it.  The description though is placed in the middle of the map window, which obstructs the view of the map.  

• Cultural and Natural features are both mapped and integrated nicely onto the program with real consideration of the limitations of computer screens.  Themes are really well organized and easy to understand.  Many themes that are uncommon to be plotted on interactive media are also found there.  You can even choose how much details you need on your map for rivers and contour intervals.  Good separation of highly technical themes such as geophysical data into separate maps.  Annotation of features.  This site should be a 6 out of 5 if this rating is allowed.
• User-friendliness: 4/5
• Printer-friendliness: 4/5 (Useful copy button for copy and paste)
• Special Features (Natural): Geological info such as faults, fault types, synclines / anticlines, rock unit contact, earthquakes, volcanoes and mineral occurrences, geographic data such as Digital Elevation Model hillshade, bathymetry, detailed watershed info, detailed river info, contour map, glaciers, landsat photo, and even locations of waterfalls.
• Special Features (Cultural):  Municipalities, electoral districts, regional districts, first nations reserves and treaties, railways, tree farms, landuse and planning, climate stations and even locations of wells!

• Choose between Northern and Southern Ontario, Region by region road map, click on the region to see jpeg map, click again to download pdf version.  No interlinking among map sheets is drawback
• User-friendliness: 3/5
• Printer-friendliness: 4/5
• Special Features: N/A
• Very detailed maps designed for drivers, enough information to replace paper maps or atlases (if your printer is good enough) 

• Click here for English (Note: region to region links are missing in the English version)
• Region by region road map, click on the region to see jpeg map, click again to download pdf version.  Click on the names of the neighbouring regions to go there.
• User-friendliness: 3.5/5
• Printer-friendliness: 4/5
• Special Features: N/A
• Very detailed maps of urban regions.   

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• User-friendliness: 4/5
• Printer-friendliness: 3.5/5
• Special Features: N/A
• Perfect geography classroom material.

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