The 2004 Federal Electoral District Maps (Canada) are available for free download from Geogratis.
Via: University of Saskatchewan Library: Data Library News Blog
Of course this is part of that great Geogratis site that I wish I knew about when I was working in Buffalo, NY. Anyone needing good national-level spatial datasets for Canada can find loads of good stuff at the Geogratis site.
Check out their Data Archive....
Hi there
ReplyDeleteGreat Blog. I'm a GIS Research Assistant at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Your blog has been a real help to me as I am involved in a border air quality study here. I have to often hunt for accurate USA and Canadian data sources.
Just to follow up on your post here - I use two sources primarily:
ESRI Media Kit 2005 for American basemap datasets, available here at the University as a result of having ArcGIS licences. Streets, Census data, parks, you name it, it's there.
CDN data: DMTI Spatial's CanMap Streetfile product. UBC has a licence agreement with DMTI so anyone with a UBC library card can download it for free. It lacks decent metadata with the shapefiles (unlike the ESRI MK) but a data manual explains where the datasets (land use, raods, cencus, parks, etc) are sourced from. I think most of what you can source on Geogratis can be found in this data product.
Here's some more details:
# Over 20,000 Populated Placenames
# Topographic coverage of 157 urban areas as of the 1996 Census
# Street centerline road network, names and address ranges
# Topographic features
# Regional & Municipal boundaries
# 6 cartographic classifications
# Major roads and highways as a separate layer and cartographically distinguishable from other streets
# Canada/US border crossings (point of entry) - including name of US road linking to Canadian roads across the border
# GPS - ready high positional accuracy
# Workspace/Project to open all files with zoom layering
Our UBC Geographic Data Holdings:
http://data.library.ubc.ca/java/
jsp/database/production/
search.jsp?searchstring=Subject
+Search&subject=32
CCaer, of course you are quite correct and thank you for the link. I came across this particular site yesterday and had an impulse to blog about it as I suddenly felt nostalgic about the wintry north.
ReplyDeleteWould you believe that the reason I have been blogging so much has been because of snow days?? Down here in Texas? Well, the campus does not open today either... It's hilarious.