Small Craft Harbour
- Diego Cesa de Meira (Unlicensed)
Description
Small Craft Harbours is a nationwide program run by Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO). More than 5,000 volunteers assist the program annually. It keeps the harbours that are critical to the fishing industry open and in good repair. The program operates and maintains a national system of harbours to provide commercial fish harvesters and other harbour users with safe and accessible facilities.
Originator
FGP
Transport Canada
Use Cases
Source(s)
Remarks
FGP ESRI REST Service would be more appropriate for EGIS as it is does not require periodic updates and no geocoding is required.
EGIS Data Folder: \\ncras382\Application Source Files\EGIS\Smartmap Files\
Process for EGIS integration
ESRI REST Service:
This web services can be integrated directly into EGIS.
CSV File Transformation:
Copy/paste Port listing from TC website then save as an Excel spreadsheet.
In FME, use the Google Geocoder transformer to geocode by port name.
Expose the returned Lat/Long value.
Transform the Lat/Long to point.
Output to KML, SHP or GDB as required
Import into EGIS
TC Smart Maps:
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\Marine-NWP\SmallCraftHarbour\SmallCraftHarbour.kmz
Customization:
Schema transformation: As required
Denormalization: Not required
Value coding: Not required
Attribute renaming: As required to improve readability
Attribute removal: It is highly recommended as some fields are unnecessary, this will also reduce file size and improve performance
Geoenrichment: Feature symbolization is recommended to improve visualization
Format translation: Not required
Language translation: French version available
Update frequency: As identified