Before the holidays you perhaps saw that The Experience B.C. map, from a failed tourist attraction, was available "free to good home." It's half the size of an olympic sized swimming pool. Well, it's got a home: Galey Farms in Victoria. There it will join a sort of agricultural tourist attraction.

Not to be outdone, here's a second big map story from BC. The Challenger Map at 24 x 23 metres was built by forestry millionaire George Challenger and was completed in 1952. It had a home at the PNE B.C. Pavilion until 1997 when it moved into storage. Now, an effort lead by Alan Clapp hopes to repaint the folk art's 196 pieces and put them back together, perhaps to be on display for the 2010 Olympics. It's current home: an Air Canada hangar. Luckily, the company that had stored it since 1997 forgave the unpaid fees. Clapp's vission includes monetary contributions by local businesses and input from school children per the Vancouver Sun.