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B.C. Ministry of Forests, Lands, and Natural Resources Operations and Rural Development. Baseline Thematic Mapping Present Land Use Version 1 Spatial Layer, WHSE_BASEMAPPING.BTM_PRESENT_LAND_USE_V1_SVW. GeoBC, Ministry of Forests, Lands, and Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development. Victoria, B.C. Updated Regularly.

B.C. Ministry of Forests, Lands, and Natural Resources Operations and Rural Development. Digital Road Atlas (DRA) - Master Partially-Attributed Roads, WHSE_BASEMAPPING.DRA_DGTL_ROAD_ATLAS_MPAR_SP [ESRI ArcSDE format]. Ministry of Forests, Lands, and Natural Resource Operations, GeoBC. Victoria, B.C. Updated Regularly.

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