Alberta – VERSION 2025
Release Date: November 2024
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General
- Enhanced Road
- Enhanced Road Names
- Enhanced ATV, Snowmobile, Multi-use Trail, Paddling and TCT data
- New Hunting LEH Areas
- New Private Campsites
- New Overland Routes
- New Ranger Stations
Roads
- Updated over 500 km of roads
- Named an additional 350+ roads
Trails
- Updated almost 2,300 km of trails (ATV, multi-use & snowmobile), including 200+ new Trailheads and Staging Areas
Oil & Gas
- Added 317,600+ Resource Sites
Recreation & Geographic POI
Added over 1,180 new recreation & geographic features
- Close to 200 new Trailheads
- 750+ New Hunting LEH Areas
- 240+ new Private Campsites
- 100+ new Picnic Areas
- 250+ new EV Charging and Gas Stations
- 50+ Backroad Attractions
- 50+ Waterfalls
- 20+ Ranger Stations
- Close to 20 new Overlander Routes
Alberta – VERSION 2023
Release Date: August 2023
General
- Enhanced road names
- New Municipal district borders
- New EV Charging Stations
Roads
- Updated over 1,300 km of roads
- Named an additional 2500+ roads
Trails
- Updated almost 1,800 km of trails (ATV, multi-use & snowmobile)
Recreation & Geographic POI
Added over 195 new recreation & geographic features
- Close to 34 new Trailheads
- 28 new Ghost Towns
- 60 new Golf Courses
- 250+ new EV Charging and Gas Stations
Alberta – VERSION 2022
Release Date: August 2022
- Refined the routable and non-routable road networks
- Updated over 600 kilometres of roads including over 415 kilometres of routable roads
- Enhanced road names and named an additional 118 roads
- Updated the ATV, Multi-Use Trail, Paddling Route & Winter trail systems
- Added new Brake Check Areas and Rest Areas
- Updated Crown Land boundaries
- Added over 535 new Adventure/recreational, geographic and water, and public service points.
- Added 16 new Lodges and Resorts
- Added 10 new Paddling Routes
- Added 76 new Public Service Points of Interest
- Added 49 new Multi-Use Trails
- Added 7 new Wildlife Viewing Areas
- Added 16 new Winter Recreation Points of Interest
- Added 342 new Brake Check Areas
- Refined Urban area features
Alberta – VERSION 2021
Release Date August 2021
- Refined the routable and non-routable road networks
- Downgraded all unnamed resource and rec roads
- Modified Alberta unpaved collector roads to better match resource road line styles
- Updated the ATV, Multi-Use Trail, Paddling Route & Snowmobile trail systems
- Added over 740 Alberta Conservation Sites
- Enhanced the Alberta Public Land Use Zones (PLUZ) with a new green line and fill
- Added/Updated over 1,600 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
- Updated and enhanced the Canadian Rockies, Central and Northern Alberta area Adventure Points of Interest
- 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
Alberta – VERSION 2020
Release Date August 2020
- Now includes Night Mode
- Enhanced Crown Land visibility (colouring)
- Refined the routable and non-routable road networks
- Addition of over 350 new or refined points of interest including our recreational, geographic and water, and public service points. This includes the following additions to our Adventure POI:
- 128 Backroad Attractions
- 149 Paddling Routes
- 20 Snowmobile & ATV Routes
- 67 Trails (Multi-Use Trails)
Alberta – VERSION 2019
Release Date July 2019
- Now includes Provincial Grazing Lands as well as Pasture and Alberta Provincial Leased and Crown Land
- Added 2,800+ km of motorized trails for ATV’s and Snowmobiles including close to 70 new trailheads and staging areas.
- Added close to 550 km of Multi-Use Trails including the Trans Canada Trail with 265+ new trailheads
- Updated the Great Divide Trail extending from Montana to Kakwa Wildland Park
- Added 70 km of Paddling Routes including close to 50+ new access and portage locations
- Now includes Livingstone and Porcupine Hills Public Land Use Zones
- Now includes Birch Mountains, Birch River, Dillon River, Kazan and Richardson Wildland Provincial Parks plus close to 30 new Provincial, National and Urban Parks including 90+ new Campsites, Backcountry Campsites, Day Use/Picnic Areas, Recreation Areas and Huts/Shelters
- 60+ new Wildlife Viewing points of interest including Scenic Areas and Fire Towers
- Added close to 60 new Winter Recreation adventures for cross-country skiing and snowshoeing
- Enhanced close to 150 new First Nations Reservations
- Added thousands of mile markers along Railway Corridors
- Enhanced the Snowmobile Route cartography for improved display
Alberta – VERSION 8.0
Release Date April, 2018
- Enhanced the Canadian Rockies parks and adventures
- Added close to 2,000 km of Motorized Trails for ATV’s and Snowmobiles including 45+ new trailheads and staging areas.
- Added 2,500+ km of Multi-Use Trails including the Trans Canada Trail with close to 200 new trailheads
- Now includes Castle and Castle Wildland Provincial Parks plus 160+ new Provincial, National and Urban Parks including 100+ new Campsites, Backcountry Campsites, Day Use/Picnic Areas, Recreation Areas and Huts/Shelters
- 130+ new Wildlife Viewing points of interest including Scenic Areas and Fire Towers
- Added close to 100 new Fishing Lakes, Rivers and Streams
- Added 60+ new Backroad Attractions including historical sites and points of interest
- Added 20 new Recreation Areas
- Added 15 new Winter Recreation adventures for cross-country skiing and snowshoeing
- Enhanced cartography for improved display of Parks, Conservation Areas, Crown Lands, creeks and activity points of interest on GPS units
Alberta – VERSION 7.0
Release Date November 2016
- 5,000,000+ searchable Alberta Legal Subdivision Sections, Quarter Sections and full LSD grid locations. Includes Quarter Section boundaries.
- New addition of Lake Bathymetry depth contours for 150+ fishing lakes, rivers and streams.
- New cross-country ski trail networks.
- 60,000+ KM of improvements to our backroads network.
- 3,000+ KM of additional multi-use, cross-country ski and Trans-Canada Trails. Includes close to 300 additional trailheads.
- 2,000+ KM of additional motorized trails for ATV-OHVs and Snowmobiles. Includes close to 50 additional trailheads and staging areas.
- Improved our national, provincial and urban parks. Includes 100+ additional campsites, day-use/picnic areas, backcountry/canoe campsites, recreation sites and huts in major parks and recreation areas.
- 50+ additional winter recreation activities.
- 20+ additional wildlife viewing areas.
Alberta – VERSION 6.0
Release Date November, 2015
- Added 4,000,000+ Alberta Legal Subdivision (LSD) grid references, 40,000+ new wellsite locations and optimized oil and gas resource facility search ability.
- Updated our Hydrology (Lakes, Rivers, Creeks and Glaciers), Pipelines, Railroads and Transmission Lines using 1:20,000 scale resolution.
- Close to 20,000 km of improvements to our backroads network.
- Close to 3,000 km of additional paddling routes.
- 250+ km of additional motorized trails for ATV-OHVs and Snowmobiles. Includes 50+ additional trailheads and staging areas.
- 150+ national, provincial and urban parks. Includes 130+ additional campsites, day-use/picnic areas, backcountry/canoe campsites, recreation sites and huts in major parks and recreation areas.
- 2,000+ additional public services.
- Close to 100 additional attractions and historic sites.
Alberta – 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, we have added a wealth of multi-use and ATV/OHV trails, paddling routes, portages, winter access roads and more!
- NEW! Oilfield Pipeline right-of-way corridors
- Updated Reservoir and River sections
- NEW! Over 60,000 km 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
- 1,400 km of newly discovered multi-use Trails added
- Over 400 km of ADDITIONAL Snowmobile Trails
- Over 800 km of NEW ATV/OHV trails
- ADDITIONAL 800 km of 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
Alberta – VERSION 4.0
Release Date September 16th, 2013
Over 26,000 km of new roads 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 – added 608 km
- Updated Non Route Roads – added 26,159 km
Trails:
- Updated Multi-use Trails – added 68 km
- Updated OHV/ATV Trails – added 69 km
General:
- Updated Alberta Points of Interest locations
- Updated POI for Trails (ATV, snowmobile & multi-use)
Alberta – VERSION 3.0
Released April 9th, 2012
Version 3.0 of the Alberta Backroad GPS Maps features better industrial and city road information, more multi-use and motorized trails, improved contours and several other improvements. Listed below are the details:
Roads:
- Updated city and street roads
- Upgraded resource roads for the north
- More roads than any other recreational map source out there (including Bush Map, Ibycus Topo Maps and Topo Canada)
Trails:
- Added over 400 km of motorized and snowmobile trails
- Updated and added to the multi-use trails including refining the Calgary Area trails
- General:
- Improved colouring for FLUZ & restricted areas
- Improved colouring for buildings, cities, runways, Indian Reserves
- Refine trail line styles to draw better on computer and handheld units
- Updated Contours
- Updated Points of Interest
BRITISH COLUMBIA, ALBERTA & ONTARIO
Version 2.0-2.2
2.0 - Released May 30, 2011
- Easier to see Backroads
- Improved logging road routing
- More named logging and Backroads
- Better road differentiation between Main FSR and Secondary Roads
- Thousands of new or updated trails and trailhead POI’s
- Tens of thousands new geographic feature names – search by water or land feature
- Searchable cities, towns and rail stops
- Many more parks, including urban parks
- Added buildings, city areas, airports, cemeteries and other urban land features
- Updated city and rural roads
- Optimized zoom levels for better viewing of POI’s, major parks, lakes and road systems
2.1 - Released July 30, 2011
- Improved routing over long distances
- Creeks, trails, roads etc. text is now properly displayed on older Garmin GPS models (Map 60CSX, Map 76CSX, Etrex, Astro, Rhino 500, etc.)
- Display colour contrast improvements for these older Garmin GPS models
- Optimized display of road names and highway symbols
- Improved unclassified roads, pipelines, etc. visibility level in Mapsource and Basecamp
- Addressed contour display including labeling and viewing levels as well as instances of contours showing above water
- Improved tile redraw speed
- Fixed gaps in seamless maps as seen in Mapsource and Basecamp
- Addressed issues where certain points were being symbolized incorrectly
- Refined installer package
- Added restricted use areas (for BC snowmobile)
- Searchable and smart background Wildlife Management Units
- Thinner contour lines so logging roads and trails are easier to see
- Improved BasecampTM, MapSourceTM and RoadTripTM searching including adding Backroad Symbols and POI’s
- Dramatically expanded Custom POI categories
2.2 - Released September 25, 2011
- Improved routing yielding more intelligent routes
- Route calculation is quicker
- Fixed gaps in seemless maps to help connectivity issues between problem tiles
- Refined installer package
