I often use Google Earth to get a quick overview of the topography at a site which I havent had the opportunity to visit - I've often wanted to have an NTS map sheet overlay on Google Earth, to make selecting Geobase DEM tiles for input into our wind resource models much easier than going through the visual selection tool available at the Geogratis portal. So, after some looking around Geogratis I found the NTS 50 and 250 k Canada map indexes available as shapefiles, which I then exported to KMZ using one of the nice ArcGIS plugins that a community user had made (here).
The result has been surprisingly useful for me, and since I couldnt find it already set up somewhere else, I've decided to post it here in case somebody else wants it. The NTS map index names are all there - it looks a bit overwhelming until you zoom in close enough so you dont see 600 sheets at a time. Warning, even using KMZ over KML, its still a 5.5 mb file.
Anyways, HERE it is (you can also click on the post title).
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