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The map title is Soil Types. Map scale. North arrow pointing to the north. Map projection is Hammer-Aitoff. Border of Canada. Great Lakes Border for each theme category within Canada. Neat line around the map. Each theme category is identified by a number that corresponds to the legend. Legend is divided into four categories: Tundra soils, Wet-climate soils, Dry-climate soils, Complex soils of mountain areas. Tactile maps are designed with Braille, large text, and raised features for visually impaired and low vision users. The Tactile Maps of Canada collection includes: (a) Maps for Education: tactile maps showing the general geography of Canada, including the Tactile Atlas of Canada (maps of the provinces and territories showing political boundaries, lakes, rivers and major cities), and the Thematic Tactile Atlas of Canada (maps showing climatic regions, relief, forest types, physiographic regions, rock types, soil types, and vegetation). (b) Maps for Mobility: to help visually impaired persons navigate spaces and routes in major cities by providing information about streets, buildings and other features of a travel route in the downtown area of a city. (c) Maps for Transportation and Tourism: to assist visually impaired persons in planning travel to new destinations in Canada, showing how to get to a city, and streets in the downtown area.

Resources

Name	Format	Description	Link
Download CorelDraw through HTTP	Unknown		https://ftp.geogratis.gc.ca/pub/nrcan_rncan/raster/tactile/symbols-signes/cdr/symbology_en.cdr
Download Graphic Interchange Format through HTTP	GIF		https://ftp.geogratis.gc.ca/pub/nrcan_rncan/raster/tactile/symbols-signes/cdr/symbology_en.gif
Download Portable Document Format through HTTP	PDF		https://ftp.geogratis.gc.ca/pub/nrcan_rncan/raster/tactile/symbols-signes/cdr/symbology_en.pdf
Download CorelDraw through HTTP	Unknown		https://ftp.geogratis.gc.ca/pub/nrcan_rncan/raster/tactile/symbols-signes/cdr/symbology_fr.cdr
Download Graphic Interchange Format through HTTP	GIF		https://ftp.geogratis.gc.ca/pub/nrcan_rncan/raster/tactile/symbols-signes/cdr/symbology_fr.gif
Download Portable Document Format through HTTP	PDF		https://ftp.geogratis.gc.ca/pub/nrcan_rncan/raster/tactile/symbols-signes/cdr/symbology_fr.pdf
Download CorelDraw through HTTP	Unknown		https://ftp.geogratis.gc.ca/pub/nrcan_rncan/raster/tactile/thematic-thematique/cdr/so_en_br.cdr
Download CorelDraw through HTTP	Unknown		https://ftp.geogratis.gc.ca/pub/nrcan_rncan/raster/tactile/thematic-thematique/cdr/so_en_tx.cdr
Download CorelDraw through HTTP	Unknown		https://ftp.geogratis.gc.ca/pub/nrcan_rncan/raster/tactile/thematic-thematique/cdr/so_fr_br.cdr
Download CorelDraw through HTTP	Unknown		https://ftp.geogratis.gc.ca/pub/nrcan_rncan/raster/tactile/thematic-thematique/cdr/so_fr_tx.cdr
Download Hypertext Mark-up Language through HTTP	HTML		https://ftp.geogratis.gc.ca/pub/nrcan_rncan/raster/tactile/thematic-thematique/html-metadata/so_en_br.html
Download Hypertext Mark-up Language through HTTP	HTML		https://ftp.geogratis.gc.ca/pub/nrcan_rncan/raster/tactile/thematic-thematique/html-metadata/so_en_tx.html
Download Hypertext Mark-up Language through HTTP	HTML		https://ftp.geogratis.gc.ca/pub/nrcan_rncan/raster/tactile/thematic-thematique/html-metadata/so_fr_br.html
Download Hypertext Mark-up Language through HTTP	HTML		https://ftp.geogratis.gc.ca/pub/nrcan_rncan/raster/tactile/thematic-thematique/html-metadata/so_fr_tx.html
Download Portable Document Format through HTTP	PDF		https://ftp.geogratis.gc.ca/pub/nrcan_rncan/raster/tactile/thematic-thematique/pdf/so_en_br.pdf
Download Portable Document Format through HTTP	PDF		https://ftp.geogratis.gc.ca/pub/nrcan_rncan/raster/tactile/thematic-thematique/pdf/so_en_tx.pdf
Download Portable Document Format through HTTP	PDF		https://ftp.geogratis.gc.ca/pub/nrcan_rncan/raster/tactile/thematic-thematique/pdf/so_fr_br.pdf
Download Portable Document Format through HTTP	PDF		https://ftp.geogratis.gc.ca/pub/nrcan_rncan/raster/tactile/thematic-thematique/pdf/so_fr_tx.pdf

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