Coastal Communities

Owned by Diego Cesa de Meira (Unlicensed)
Sept 11, 2019
2 min read

Description

Coastal Communities is a subset of the Atlas of Canada 1,000,000 National Frameworks Data, Canadian Place Names within 20 km of 1:1,000,000 Coastline. It consists of point geospatial and attribute data for a selection of named populated places and other places considered relevant to represent Canadian place names.

Originator

  1. Canada Open Data

  2. Statistic Canada

Use Cases

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Source(s)

Description

Source

Format

Date

Update Frequency

Metadata

Cost

Link

Remarks

Description

Source

Format

Date

Update Frequency

Metadata

Cost

Link

Remarks

Coastal Communities

TC Smart Maps

GDB

2019

As Needed

N/A

Free

EGIS Data Folder: CoastalCommunities_pt.gdb.zip

Use preprocessed GDB file as provided.

Populated Places

Canada Open Data
Statistic Canada

SHP
GDB
KML

2006

Completed

Embedded in the ZIP file

Free

SHP(ZIP)
GDB(ZIP)
SHP

Atlas of Canada National Scale 1M dataset

Coastline 1:1M

Canada Open Data

SHP

2014

Completed

XML

Free

SHP

 

Remarks

  1. This is a subset of the Atlas of Canada National Scale 1M dataset.

  2. EGIS Data Folder: \\ncras382\Application Source Files\EGIS\Smartmap Files\

Process for EGIS integration

Geoprocessing:

  1. In FME, use the 1:1M Coastline as base and Populated Places as candidate.

  2. Use the Neighbourhood Finder transformer, set 20 km as the parameter for maximum search distance criteria.

  3. Output to KML, SHP or GDB as required

  4. Import into EGIS

SHP and GDB Files:

  1. SHP/GDB files can be integrated directly 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\Marine-NWP\CoastalCommunities\CoastalCommunities.kmz

Customization:

  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: No required.

  6. Geoenrichment: Feature symbolization is recommended. e.g. Capital City can be symbolized differently and displayed at smaller scale.

  7. Format translation: As needed

  8. Language translation: French version not available.