Populated Places

Owned by Diego Cesa de Meira (Unlicensed)
Sept 13, 2019
1 min read

Description

Populated Places
The Atlas of Canada 1,000,000 National Frameworks Data, Canadian Place Names 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

  1.  

Source(s)

Description

Source

Format

Date

Update Frequency

Metadata

Cost

Link

Remarks

Description

Source

Format

Date

Update Frequency

Metadata

Cost

Link

Remarks

Populated Places

Canada Open Data

SHP
GDB

2006

Completed

XML Embedded in the ZIP file

Free

SHP(ZIP)
GDB(ZIP)

Atlas of Canada National Scale 1M dataset

Populated Places

Statistic Canada

SHP

2006

Completed

XML Embedded in the ZIP file

Free

SHP

 

Populated Places

Canada Open Data-CanVec 1M Series

WMS
GDB
SHP

2018

On-going

XML

Free

WMS
GDB
SHP

Collection of Administrative Features.
Extract Place layer from dataset.

Census Population

StatsCan

CSV

2016

Ongoing

N/A

Free

Designated Places
Population Centres

 

Remarks

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

  2. The most appropriate dataset to use for EGIS would be from Canada Open Data as it gets updated when new census is completed.

  3. Extract ZIP files after download..

Process for EGIS integration

SHP and GDB Files:

  1. SHP/GDB files can be integrated directly into EGIS.

  2. Join census data for 2011 and 2016 from Statistic Canada to complement the dataset.

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\GeographicalNames\PopulatedPlaces\PopulatedPlaces.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.