Transport Canada Port and Port Facility

Description

Transport Canada (TC) Port / Port Facility
TC own and operate three types of ports and port facilities across the country.

Remote port facilities serve communities where marine transportation is the primary mode of transportation.
Local/regional port facilities serve communities where there are commercial activities.
Public ports serve communities where there are commercial activities. TC may or may not own or operate the port facilities within the port limits.

The Ports Asset Transfer Program (PATP) was created to facilitate the transfer of Transport Canada-administered port facilities.

Description	Source	Format	Date	Update Frequency	Metadata	Cost	Link	Remarks

Description	Source	Format	Date	Update Frequency	Metadata	Cost	Link	Remarks
Remote Port Facilities	Transport Canada	HTML	2018	As needed	N/A	Free	TC Website EGIS Data Folder: TCPort_pt.gdb.zip	NOTE: Expand British Columbia, Manitoba and Quebec
Local/Regional Port Facilities	Transport Canada	HTML	2018	As needed	N/A	Free	TC Website Same link as above	NOTE: Expand Alberta, Ontario, Quebec and Newfouldland
Public Ports	Transport Canada	HTML	2018	As needed	N/A	Free	TC Website Same link as above	NOTE: Expand British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia and Newfouland

Copy/paste Port listing from TC website then save as an Excel spreadsheet.
Add 3 attributes to signify Public Port, Public Port Facility and Remote Port Facility accordingly.
In FME, use the Feature Merger transformer to join TC DFRP polygons (MapInfo format) with the Excel listing by port name to extract DFRP #, manually insert the DFRP # for any records not processed.
Output to KML, SHP or GDB as required.
Three datasets are generated: TC Port, Public Port and Public Port Facility.
Import into EGIS

Not all GIS applications can consume KML file directly due to its unique data structures such as networklinks, folders, models etc.
Please contact Lawrence Chong, Digital Services Directorate for TC Smart Maps KML dataset and format translation.
TC Smart Maps KML link: \\tc.gc.ca\tcgis\GISData\Google Mashup\Port\CanadaPort.kmz

Schema transformation: Not required.
Denormalization: Not required.
Value coding: Not required.
Attribute renaming: Not required.
Attribute removal: Not Required.
Geoenrichment: Feature symbolization based on theme is recommended to improve visualization
Format translation: As required.
Language translation: As required.
Update frequency: As identified.