Open Geospatial Data

A collection of open georeferenced data sources (addresses, building footprints, road networks) found throughout Canada.

Provincial Data

Province	Update Frequency			License	Source Links			Field Mapping
					Address	Building	Road Network
	Address	Building	Road Network
Alberta	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Open Government License - Alberta	Alberta Municipal Data Sharing Partnership	Open Database of Buildings Automatically Extracted Buildings	Alberta Municipal Data Sharing Partnership
British Columbia	As Needed	Monthly	Monthly	Access Only	Physical Address Viewer (PAV)	Public Buildings Buildings - TRIM Enhanced Base Map (EBM) Olympic Venues - Building Footprints Open Database of Buildings Automatically Extracted Buildings	Digital Road Atlas - BC
Manitoba		None Planned	Annually	License Agreement for Digital Data		MLI - 1:20,000 Building Footprints Automatically Extracted Buildings	MLI - Roads
New Brunswick	Monthly	As Needed	Monthly	Open Government License - New Brunswick	Georeferenced Civic Address Database (GCAD)	Automatically Extracted Buildings Open Database of Buildings	New Brunswick Road Network (NBRN)
Newfoundland and Labrador
Northwest Territories						Open Database of Buildings
Nova Scotia	Monthly	Annually	Annually	Open Government License - Nova Scotia	Nova Scotia Civic Address File - Civic Points	Nova Scotia Topographic Database - Buildings Open Database of Buildings Automatically Extracted Buildings	Nova Scotia Road Network
Nunavut
Ontario		As Needed	Weekly	Open Government Licence - Ontario		Building to Scale Open Database of Buildings	Ontario Road Network: Road Net Element Ontario Road Network: Segment with Address
Prince Edward Island	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Open Government Licence - PEI	Civic Address Data		Civic Address Centreline Road Network
Quebec	Monthly	As Needed	Bi-Annually	Creative Commons 4.0 - Attribution CC BY	Addresses Québec	Automatically Extracted Buildings Open Database of Buildings	LRS - Transport Quebec Condition routière hivernale du réseau routier MTQ
Saskatchewan						Open Database of Buildings	Saskatchewan Upgraded Road Network (SURN)
Yukon			Irregularly	Open Government Licence - Yukon			Yukon Transportation Information

Notes

Alberta

• The AMDSP data includes address, points of interest and road network data.

British Columbia

• PAV dataset is in a KML format (intended Google Earth use).
• The Public Buildings dataset includes only points.

Manitoba

• MLI - 1:20,000 Building Footprints were last updated March 2002 with no plans of being updated again.

Newfoundland and Labrador

• The Newfoundland and Labrador Statistics Agency produced the Newfoundland and Labrador Road Distance Database to give approximate road distances and travel times between communities in the province.

Nova Scotia

• Buildings over 30m on one side are collected as polygons, others are collected as points.

Saskatchewan

• SURN appears to be a copy of the Saskatchewan NRN dataset.

Yukon

• Road network provided as an Esri REST.

Field Mapping

ON: Field mapping between open source data and final road network data

NB: Field mapping between open source data and final road network data

Resources

• brianbancroft/OpenGeoDataCanada