As some people realized, the encoding method used on the file was reversible. While not being the reason I am releasing the source code I thought I would make things a little more fair and release the code as-is now.
Many people have complained about being unable to run it, being a VBE file it may have posed a problem for some. As a VBS file a few others may be able to run it that could not before. I intened to make further changes to simplify the programs use for less experienced users. (A number of users are not very familiar with using a command line utility, a simply browse option should fix that.)
For free Canadian maps checks out Toporama.
You can get maps of Canada in 1:250,000 or 1:50,000. (Read the yellow text carefully to be sure you've found the 1:50,000 images, they are easy to miss.)
If you want more than a couple of maps I strongly recommend getting a utility for mirroring websites and pointing it to http://toporama.cits.rncan.gc.ca/images/b50k/?? (replace ?? with the area of interest, 06 is in Manitoba for instance) Be warned, the complete set of maps are over 2 Gigabytes of GIF files.
Then, when you have copies of these files you can use them in GPS software like OziExplorer.
I've put together a small utility to automatically calibrate the files based on the filename.
NTSConv will calibrate either 1:250,000 or 1:50,000 scale maps from Toporama automatically based on the filename. It will create an OziExplorer map file with the same name. For instance, 062H14.GIF is a Map of Winnipeg, when calibrated a new file will be generated called 062H14.MAP. From OziExplorer you can load 062H14.MAP. Disclaimer: This is a free utility, as such it comes with no warranty of any kind.
NTSConv D:\CANADA\00\ D:\MAPS\00\Will create .MAP files for each of the .GIF files found in D:\CANADA\00 and output them to D:\MAPS\00. D:\MAPS\00 must exist before the command is executed as it will not create the destination directory. Note: The utility requires Microsoft Scripting Host, This is a utility included with all recent versions of Internet Explorer, but may in some cases be disabled.
If you have any questions, or comments I can be reached at topham@shaw.ca (Mark Topham). This is a preliminary version and it's results should be validated using data from CGDI Data Alignment Layer, or data you have collected. Consider this software version 0.11, I may produce a more friendly version complete with GUI to retrieve the image files and calibrate them once downloaded. I have a few ideas on how to pursue it, but unfortunatly I seldom have the time to work on it.