Open Geospatial Data

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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

Réseau routier - RTSS

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.

New Brunswick

Newfoundland and Labrador

Northwest Territories

Nova Scotia

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

Nunavut

Ontario

Prince Edward Island

Quebec

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