PDF Map of Salt Spring Island: mapofsaltspring.com
click here or on map picture below to download the map
Thank you for visiting Salt Spring Island, the largest of the beautiful Gulf Islands, nestled between rugged Vancouver Island and British's Columbia's Sunshine Coast. We created this digital map to help you make the most of your visit and hope you enjoy the wide variety of activities on Salt Spring Island, along with the offerings from our local artists, artisans and businesses. Whether it be a delicious gourmet meal, the weekly Saturday Morning Market, a hike up Mounts Maxwell, Tuam, or Erskine to see the absolutely gorgeous views our island has to offer or some chill out time on the beach, we know your visit to Salt Spring will be an experience that you will always remember.
Salt Spring has an interesting mix of merchants, sailors, artists, musicians, writers, artisans,and travellers. World-class accomodations, restaurants and parks make it one of Canada's top tourist destinations. It is a mecca and often a starting point for sailors and kayakers exploring the gulf islands. Blessed with mild weather, fair seas, breathtaking views and a fertile soil, salt spring is also home to some of the finest wines made in the world. People come from all over the planet to sample our famous blackberry port, which sells out every year. The climate is so mild that palm, kiwi, and olive trees can be grown.
Before continuing to the map itself please read our Terms of Use.
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This document is an Adobe PDF file. PDF stands for Portable Document Format. This document is compatible with adobe acrobat reader version 6 and later.For optimal use of the map, upgrade your Adobe Acrobat Reader to the latest version.
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File size is currently 4.7 meg; download time is approximately 30-60 seconds on adsl, cable, or wi-fi.You only need download the map once and then make sure that you save it to your desktop. I recommend downloading the map once a month or so at this point as it is going through changes.
To make the most of the map, learn to use adobe acrobat. The zoom (magnifying glass) tool is very handy with this map and there is no loss of resolution when zooming. One may also choose to "print current view" from the print dialog window.
The map is searchable in two ways:
1. Use the search index by clicking on the binoculars icon. If you type in, for example, "beddis", you will be presented with a list of choices. The first two to appear are found in the bookmarks. If you click one, the bookmarks will scroll to highlight the first incidence of the word beddis; "Beddis Beach", under the sub-category, swimming, under the main category recreation. If you then click on the highlighted bookmark, you will be zoomed to the first incidence of Beddis road on the map. The 2nd item to appear in the search pane, is also a bookmark. When you click that link, you will be taken to the road "Beddis Road", under the STREET INDEX. Clicking this link in the bookmarks zooms you in to the first incidence of the word beddis on the map itself. If you click on the 3rd item listed in the search pane, you will get the same result as the first link but in one less click. Experiment with this feature, it's worthwhile. One may also search for services in this way. One may also simply visually scan and scroll the BOOKMARKS to navigate the document. Points of Interest is a good place to start in the bookmarks. You can use the hand tool to pan about the map and mouse over and click on STARS to get more info about that particular location or service.
We will produce a short online video domonstration of all of this at some point in the near future which will help you to make the most out of not only this map, but also will help you to learn to use Adobe Acrobat Reader with greater ease with other documents as well.
About The Map
The map is zoom-able to 6400% with no loss of resolution, is searchable, and can be linked to the websites of local businesses and arts studios. One can type in the name of any street or geographical feature on Salt Spring Island, and be zoomed in to that location on the map. One can click on a street name in the street index and be zoomed in to that street on the map, which proves to be a very handy navigational tool.
One can also click on a business name in the business index and be instantly linked to that business website. The map will simultaneously zoom in to that business location on the map. I have done a bit of test marketing, mostly around Ganges, regarding inclusion on the map and have been met with a very enthusiastic response from the local business and arts community.
Please note that charities and non-profit organizations are being listed for free, and public wireless hotspots will also be listed in the bookmarks at no charge as a service to tourists visiting the island.
The map has now been endorsed by the Salt Spring Chamber of Commerce, which has graciously agreed to trade me a membership in the Chamber of Commerce, as well as a letter of endorsement, in return for a link from the Chamber of Commerce site to the online map.
The map will help to promote Salt Spring Island internationally and generate interest in the island itself.
If you would like to subscribe to this map and link to it from your site, please feel free to contact me, Kenneth Fersht, at:
info@mapofsaltspring.com
kmax@kmaxmultimedia.com
I am also open to partial barter or trade if you have a product or service i can make use of.
Contact
I welcome your inquires and feedback on the Map of Salt Spring Island.
Please feel free to contribute any ideas, comments and suggestions to info@mapofsaltspring.com
Sincerely,
Ken Fersht, multimedia production artist
kmax@kmaxmultimedia.com
http://www.kmaxmultimedia.com
Subscribe to the Map of Salt Spring Island
If you have a bussiness on "Salt Spring Island" and wish to subscribe to this map of Salt Spring Island, you can use paypal to sign up. The cost is $80 per year for a star on the map in your location and a listing in the Biz index which links to your web site. $160 per year to get your logo right on the map in your location. If you are in Ganges you will automatically be added to the upcoming high res inset of Ganges also.
Features
The map is a work in progress and many more features will be added as time goes on. Among the features I am working on:
• a hiking and biking layer with contours and elevations of Salt Spring Island, note that there is excellent mountain biking on the south end of the island, which is quite remote and mountainous. Trials coming very soon now.
• Oceanographic features of Salt Spring for scuba divers and sailors
• Topographic features of Saltspring
• A printable street index of Salt Spring Island, with hyperlinks to zoomed map locations that are referenced to a grid(done)
• Links to fantastic photos and videos of Salt Spring Island
• A link to an IMPROVED version of BC Ferries Schedule that is more user friendly and intuitive, with a sweeter interface that dynamically updates itself based on current data from BC Ferries (done)
• Links to the Salt Spring Island Chamber of Commerce and potential links to "sister" Chambers of Commerce in Japan, Germany, Australia, England, Netherlands, etc. to promote cross tourism.
• A potential link to Vancouver Chamber of Commerce
• A "Salt Spring" Island accommodations index, accomodation on "Salt Spring Island" (currently growing)
• Links to Salt Spring Island weather information (done)
• A link to Salt Spring Island Archives (done)
• Links to and from other fascinating tourist destinations on Vancouver Island and other Gulf islands
• Creating videos of cycling and kayaking treks around SSI and linking to them from the map.
• Time lapse video from all of the mountain tops!
• Interviews with local artists and artisans.
• More photo essays from all of the major and some of the minor gulf islands; check the top left side bar of this page for a couple photo essay links already online.
• Creating or licensing high-resolution insets of Ganges, Vesuvias, and Fulford Villages
• Creating a ‘Zen’ video of Salt Spring Island with blue herons, eagles, sea otters and tidal pools. Please note that this video could also be imbedded in an optional larger download of the map and could pretty much any multimedia content, such as video of an event at Beaver Hall, classes at the Yoga Center, diving expeditions, kayaking trips, and the weekly Saturday market, etc. This would serve to entice people into visiting the island and would be a fun project to shoot and edit
Fulford Harbour with Ceremonial Tibetan Silks
in honor and remembrance of musicianTenzing Tsewang
©2007-Kenneth M. Fersht
Sheep in Pasture, Fulford Valley, Salt Spriing Island, BC ©2006-Kenneth M. Fersht
The west wall of Morningside Organic Bakery & Cafe ©kmax2006
Full moon over Ganges Harbor ©kmax2006
View of Ganges Harbour, from Moby's Pub, early morning
SPONSORS LINKS
A special thank you to Salt Spring Soapworks owner Linda Quiring for direction regarding south end hiking trials. I'm still exploring enjoying exploring them. Of course, now it's mushroom season also so i'll have a chance to work on the mycology section of the map.
