Federal Real Property (Land and Building)

The Directory of Federal Real Property (DFRP) is the core real property system of the federal government. It contains Common real property data for 71 custodian organizations, including:

• 20,153 owned and leased properties,

• 40,620,348 hectares of land area,

• 37,082 buildings,

• and 27,560,560 square meters of floor space.

The purpose of the Directory is to maintain a contemporary record of basic information concerning the real property holdings of the Government of Canada. Information held in the Directory is used to keep the Government of Canada informed about the scale and major components of its real property inventory. It is also used to provide information to ministers, members of Parliament and the general public concerning a specific property or group of properties within a particular geographic area.

Originator

1. Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat (TBS)

Use Cases

Source(s)

Remarks

Remarks

1. Not all GIS applications can consume XML directly.

2. XML file must have standard format in order to process properly.

Process for EGIS integration

XML File Transformation:

1. In FME, use the XML Reader to read in the data.

2. Use Attribute Manager transformer to remap the attributes.

3. Transform the Lat/Long to point.

4. Output to KML, SHP or GDB as required

5. Import into EGIS

TC Smart Maps:

1. Not all GIS applications can consume KML file directly due to its unique data structures such as networklinks, folders, models etc.

2. Please contact Lawrence Chong, Digital Services Directorate for TC Smart Maps KML dataset and format translation.

3. TC Smart Maps KML link: \\tc.gc.ca\tcgis\GISData\Google Mashup\Property\DFRP_TBS\DFRP-TBS.kmz

Process for EGIS integration

1. Schema transformation: As required

2. Denormalization: Not required

3. Value coding: Not required

4. Attribute renaming: As required to improve readability

5. Attribute removal: It is highly recommended as some fields are unnecessary, this will also reduce file size and improve performance

6. Geoenrichment: Feature symbolization is recommended to improve visualization

7. Format translation: Not required

8. Language translation: French version available

9. Update frequency: As identified