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Originally Posted by lio45
A personal pet peeve of mine is when there's something obviously wrong with a map -- in this case, the difference between MB/SK/NU.
Clearly Manitoba authorities are less paranoid about forest fires than their immediate neighbors, and the person who made the map didn't normalize the data.
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I'm not sure that's the case, it might just be a lack of good data. For example, the contours in AB and BC are approximately continuous in the highly populated and closely monitored Rocky Mountain parks, but then discontinuous in the North (with AB being continuous with NWT but not BC).
Data in national parks may be from fire lookout stations, but farther in the wilderness it might be from overflights or firefighter reports. If they aren't actively fighting many fires in Manitoba and resources are being directed elsewhere, that might be the entirety of the differences.