Thank you for visiting Pender Island, a pastural ocean paradise in the 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 Pender Island, along with the offerings from our local artists, artisans and businesses. Whether it be a delicious gourmet meal, the weekly Saturday Morning Farmers Market, a hike in the Gulf islands National Parks Reserve to see the absolutely gorgeous views our island has to offer or some chill out time on the beach, we know your visit to Pender will be an experience that you will always remember.
Pender Island has an interesting mix of merchants, sailors, artists, musicians, writers, artisans,and travellers. World-class accomodations, camping, restaurants and parks make it one of Canada's top tourist destinations. Blessed with mild weather, fair seas, breathtaking views and a fertile soil, Pender Island is also home to some of the finest wines made in the world. 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.
Click on the map picture to download the map in PDF format.
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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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.
2. 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
My name is Kenneth Fersht and I am the founder of Kmax Multimedia.
This map is part of the Gulf Island Maps collection, available through gulfislandmaps.com and produced by Kmax Multimedia
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 Pender 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.
The cost for small businesses or studios to have a star on the map and a link in the business index is $80 per year, or $160 per year if you would like your logo displayed on the map itself, which will be linked to your website and/or company info. A third option is to have a customized version of the map appear on your website, which would display ONLY your logo, as well as the best routes from the three ferry docks clearly marked on the map to your location. The cost for this configuration is $240 for the first year, and $160 each subsequent year for subscription renewal.
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 will help to promote Pender 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 Pender Island.
Please feel free to contribute any ideas, comments and suggestions to info@gulfislandmaps.com
Sincerely,
Ken Fersht, multimedia production artist
kmax@kmaxmultimedia.com
http://www.kmaxmultimedia.com
Subscribe to the Map of Pender Island
If you have a business on "Pender Island " and wish to subscribe to this map of Pender 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.
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 Pender Island
• Oceanographic features of Pender for scuba divers and sailors
• Topographical features of Pender
• A printable street index of Pender Island, with hyperlinks to zoomed map locations that are referenced to a grid
• Links to fantastic photos and videos of Pender 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
• Links to the Pender 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 "Pender" Island accommodations index, accomodation on "Pender Island"
• Links to Pender Island weather information
• A link to Pender Island Historical Archives
• 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.
• Creating a ‘Zen’ video of Pender 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. This would serve to entice people into visiting the island and would be a fun project to shoot and edit
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