Open Geospatial Data

A collection of open geospatial data sources found throughout Canada.

Resources

• Open Data Portals is a good starting point for Canadian and municipal data, also available from the open data site.
• Current NRN documentation available from [V2/|NRCan],
• brianbancroft/OpenGeoDataCanada

Addresses, Buildings and Road Networks

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

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.

Nova Scotia

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

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