A few months back the Canadian Avalanche Association sent around a set of KML files showing avalanche terrain analysis of some popular backcountry ski and snowmobile areas in British Columbia. These files rate the terrain according to the Avalanche Terrain Exposure Scale (ATES) in terms of simple, challenging or complex – terms intended to indicate …
We updated our dataset for the topographic map of Canada to the latest version, and processed it all into TrueNorth format over the course of an 18 hour long run. This served the dual purposes of getting the new data into the program, while at the same time stress testing TrueNorth as it loaded and …
As we posted last week, TrueNorth is in very active field trials, having been used on three recent Search and Rescue tasks. We’re also happy to announce that we’re expanding the field trial to include producing expedition maps for a team of backcountry adventurers who are attempting to do a ski and packraft traverse of the Coast …
One of the main principles we built TrueNorth around was this; we want you to be able to use it with the maps you already own. We’re not the in the business of making and selling maps. We make a tool that lets you read map data from almost anywhere, including maps you may already …