Crazy but fun but true fact

If you can take a bunch of GIS shapefiles, mix 'em up in ESRI ArcMap, and then from ArcMap, generate a PDF that you then post to the internets...

...then you can also post the original source shapefiles to the internets:

In a related matter, does anyone have a clue why the staff cartographers within the government of Newfoundland and Labrador are so reluctant, if not downright stubborn, when it comes to releasing raw GIS files of government-produced cartographic data into the wild?

Steve Kent? Anyone? This thing on?