Manitoba GPS Maps: Updates, Versions & Changes

Manitoba – VERSION 2023

Release Date: August 2023
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• MB New Bathymetry line and Lake’s depth
• Refined roads, trails, water features and misc
• Added over 70 lake’s bathymetry lines in Manitoba
• 1000+ Lake’s depth 
• 120+ Public service & Transportation services including new gas stations

 

Manitoba – VERSION 2022

Release Date: August 2022

• Refined the routable and non-routable road networks
• Enhanced the Manitoba Snowmobile Trail system
• Updated almost 1,850 kilometres of Snowmobile Routes
• Added new icons for Visitor Centres, Resorts, and Retailers
• Refined/Updated the Adventure/recreational, geographic and water, and public service points.
• Added Backcountry Huts
• Updated and enhanced Public Service Points of Interest
• Updated and enhanced several Recreation and Geographic Points of Interest
• Refined Urban area features

 

Manitoba – VERSION 2021

Release Date August 2021

• Refined the routable and non-routable road networks
• Enhanced the Manitoba Snowmobile Trail system
• Refined/Updated the Adventure/recreational, geographic and water, and public service points.
• Enhanced the Park Points of Interest adding area and a new easier to see green and white symbol
• Updated and enhanced Fishing Points of Interest including adding area, maximum depth and elevation to several hundred points
• Updated and enhanced Hunting Points of Interest including adding or modifying species such as big game, game birds and other species to most hunting areas
• Updated and enhanced Paddling Points of Interest including adding difficulty, River Grade and Class, Portage Length to hundreds of points
• Significant modification to road, trail and other lines for better viewing
• Modified fishing, hunting and park boundary lines and areas for better viewing
• Refined Urban area features

 

Manitoba – VERSION 2020

Release Date August 2020

• Now includes Night Mode
• Enhanced Crown Land visibility through updated colouring
• Refined the routable and non-routable road networks
• Refined the ATV, Multi-Use Trail, Paddling Route & Snowmobile trail systems
• Modified our recreational, geographic and water, and public service points.

Manitoba – VERSION 2019

Release Date July 2019

• Enhanced our Routable Roads with 1,000+ km of improvements to our backroad network
• Added 120+ km of Multi-Use Trails including 75+ new trailheads
• Added close to 50 km of motorized trails for ATV’s and Snowmobiles
• Enhanced our long distance Paddling Routes network including 110 new access and portage locations
• Enhanced 300+ new First Nations Reservations
• Added 275+ new Backcountry and Canoe Campsites
• Added 65 new Fishing Lakes, Rivers and Streams
• Enhanced our Provincial, National and Urban Parks including 25+ new Huts/Shelters and Day Use/Picnic Areas
• Added close to 25 new Backroad Attractions including historical sites and points of interest
• Added 30+ new Winter Recreation adventures for cross-country skiing and snowshoeing
• Added thousands of mile markers along Railway Corridors
• Enhanced the Snowmobile Route cartography for improved display

Manitoba – VERSION 8.0

Release Date April, 2018

• Added Manitoba Crownland
• Highway improvements near Winnipeg
• Added 1,175 km of Motorized Trails for ATV’s and Snowmobiles including close to 20 new trailheads and staging areas
• Added close to 480 km of new Paddling Routes
• Added 375+ km of Multi-Use Trails including close to 45 new trailheads
• Added close to 75 new Provincial, National and Urban Parks
• Added 20 new Backroad Attractions including historical sites and points of interest
• Added 20 new Fishing Lakes, Rivers and Streams
• Added 2 new Ski Areas
• Enhanced cartography for improved display of Parks, Conservation Areas, Crown Lands, creeks and activity points of interest on GPS units

Manitoba – VERSION 7.0

Release Date November 2016

• 1,000,000+ searchable Manitoba Dominion Land Survey Sections and Quarter Section grid locations.  Includes Quarter Section boundaries.
• 10,000+ new wellsite locations.
• Close to 3,000 KM of improvements to our backroads network.
• 4,000+ additional public services.

Manitoba – VERSION 6.0

Release Date November, 2015

• Optimized oil and gas grid reference search ability.
• 2,500+ km of additional paddling routes. Includes 1,200+ additional paddling routes, access locations and portages.
• 850+ km of additional motorized trails for ATV-OHVs and Snowmobiles. Includes close to 70 additional trailheads and staging areas.
• Close to 600 km of additional multi-use and Trans-Canada trails. Includes 75+ additional trailheads.
• 150+ additional backcountry/canoe campsites in major parks and recreation areas.
• 50+ additional attractions and historic sites.
• 50+ additional winter recreation activities.
• 25+ additional fishing lakes, rivers and streams with stocking and species information.
• 25+ additional wildlife viewing areas.
  
  

Canadian Prairies– VERSION 5.0

Release Date November, 2014
In addition to extensive resource data updates including industry routable roads and oil and gas facility points-of-interest for Alberta and Saskatchewan, we have added a wealth of multi-use and ATV/OHV trails, paddling routes, portages, winter access roads and more for all the Canadian Prairies provinces!

• NEW! Oilfield Pipeline right-of-way corridors
• Updated Reservoir and River sections
• NEW! Tens of thousands of kms of Industry and Resource routable roads including Oilfield winter access roads
• MORE! Resource and Oilfield road labels including private and leased roads
• Up-to-date Urban Street Roads available including residential and Highways
• NEW! Resource Kilometer posting
• Thousands of kms of newly discovered multi-use Trails added
• Thousands of km of ADDITIONAL Snowmobile Trails
• Thousands of km of NEW ATV/OHV trails
• ADDITIONAL Paddling routes & updated Portage trails
• NEW! Hundreds of thousands of kilometers of Oilfield Pipeline corridors
• NEW! Resource POI locations for Gas Plants, Battery sites, Compressor and Disposal facilities
• Added Water POI features including Rapids, Rocks and Waterfalls
  
  

Manitoba – VERSION 5.0

In addition to significant road and snowmobile trail updates, we have also updated the water and hunting features along with many trails, paddling routes and recreation points-of-interest additions

• Updated roads including names, road geometry and classification, and added unclassified roads and winter road updates
• NEW! added operator and railway stations, as well as updated railway lines
• New & updated water features such as rapids, rocks and waterfalls
• Additional hunting information to over 60 Game Hunting Areas (GHA)
• Newly discovered! multi-use trails around Winnipeg and in the backcountry
• Over 2,500 km of ADDITIONAL paddling routes and portage trails
• 600 km of NEWLY ADDED snowmobiling trails, additional route names, as well as extensive snowmobile trail updates
• Numerous new & updated Points-of-Interest

Manitoba – VERSION 4.0

Release Date September 16th, 2013
Over 15,000 km of snowmobile trails routes, enhanced recreation points of interest and searchable street names! Listed below are the details:

New Functionalities:

• New 3D View GARMIN functionality (applicable for Garmin units with 3D View capability and in GARMIN Basecamp).
• Improved road levelling, contours and points of interest showing more details sooner.
• New Detailed Shaded Relief for all of Canada. (A great tool for viewing elevations as well as changes in geography/lay of the land).
• Elevation profiles for GPS tracks and trip planning.
• Enhanced contour display.
• Faster, more accurate guidance and trip planning now with “Via” Routing.
• Route Profile view on Garmin MapSource.
• Install multiple Backroad GPS Map products on Garmin Basecamp.
• Ability to transfer multiple maps to GPS unit (DVD customers only).
• The latest Contour and Elevation information including: Summits, Peaks and Geographic Points.

Roads:

• New Searchable Street Names feature.
• Updated Route Roads
• Updated Non Route Roads

Trails:

• Updated Multi-use Trails
• Updated OHV/ATV Trails
• Updated Snowmobile Trails – added 15,000 km

General:

• Updated Manitoba Points of Interest locations
• Updated POI for Trails (ATV, snowmobile & multi-use)
  

Manitoba – VERSION 3.0

Released April 9th, 2012
Version 3.0 of the Manitoba Backroad GPS Maps features significantly more trail information, including multi-use, motorized and snowmobile trails, along with improved road information and several other improvements. Listed below are the details:

Roads:

• Updated city and street roads
• Upgraded resource roads for the north

Trails:

• Multi-use Trails – 175 km new
• Motorized Trails – 930 km new
• Snowmobile Trails – 890 km new

General:

• Improved colouring for restricted areas
• Improved colouring for buildings, cities, runways, Indian Reserves
• Refine trail line styles to draw better on computer and handheld units
• Updated Points of Interest