Canadian Impact Assessment Registry

Description

The assessments layer represents all assessments undertaken under the Impact Assessment Act, including those that continue under the provisions of the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, 2012. It is based on information contributed by the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada or other federal authorities in relation to assessments conducted under their responsibility. The location of a given assessment included in the dataset is approximate and is based on information submitted by proponents, if applicable. More than one location may be identified for a given assessment. This dataset does not include information related to the footprint. Additional information about this dataset is available on the Canadian Impact Assessment Registry Internet site.

Originator

  1. Impact Assessment Agency of 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

Environmental Assessment (EA) projects

Canada Open Data

ESRI REST
WMS
SHP

2019

N/A

XML

Free

ESRI REST
HTML

 

Remarks

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Process for EGIS integration.

WMS File Transformation:

  1. ESRI REST can be consumed by eGIS directly

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\EnvironmentalAiifairs\ImapctAssessmentRegistry\ImpactAssessmentRegistry.kmz

Customization:

  1. Schema transformation: Not required

  2. Denormalization: Not required

  3. Value coding: Not required

  4. Attribute renaming: As required to improve readability

  5. Attribute removal: Not required.performance

  6. Geoenrichment: Feature symbolization based on Sector is recommended to improve visualization

  7. Format translation: Not required.

  8. Language translation: French version not available.

  9. Update frequency: As identified