Title

Geopolitical Region - Administrative boundaries in Canada - CanVec – Administra…

License

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Abstract

Feature representing a geopolitical area or used to define one.

Part of Administrative boundaries in Canada - CanVec – Administrative Features. Layer presented at the 15M scale. Different scales can be found on the Open Canada Portal, https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/306e5004-534b-4110-9feb-58e3a5c3fd97 .

The administrative features of the CanVec series include geopolitical regions (international, territorial and provincial) and populated place names.

A wide selection of attributes describe the data.

The CanVec multiscale series is available as prepackaged downloadable files and by user-defined extent via a Geospatial data extraction tool.

Related Products: Topographic Data of Canada - CanVec Series

Publication Date

Aug. 9, 2022, 3:26 p.m.

Type

Vector Data

Keywords

• Administrative Boundaries
• Border
• CanVec
• Canada
• Cartography
• Earth Sciences
• Geographic Information Systems
• Geographic data
• Geography
• Geomatics
• Geopolitical limits
• Provincial limit
• Territorial boundary

Category

Boundaries

Legal land descriptions. Examples: political and administrative boundaries.

Regions

North America

Responsible

NRCan

Group

Government of Canada

Attribution

Government of Canada; Natural Resources Canada; Earth Sciences Sector

More info

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Maintenance Frequency

Frequency Of Maintenance For The Data Is Not Known

Restrictions

Please see, Open Government Licence - Canada (https://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada)

Edition

Record Modified: 2022-02-01

Purpose

Administrative Features entities are: Geopolitical Region (border). CanVec is a digital cartographic reference product of Natural Resources Canada (NRCan). It originates from the best available data sources covering Canadian territory, offers quality topographical information in vector format, and complies with international geomatics standards. CanVec is a multi-source product coming mainly from the National Topographic Data Base (NTDB), the Mapping the North process conducted by the Canada Center for Mapping and Earth Observation (CCMEO), the Atlas of Canada data, the GeoBase initiative, and the data update using satellite imagery coverage (e.g. Landsat 7, Spot, Radarsat, etc.).

Language

English

Supplemental Information

Source: https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/8ba2aa2a-7bb9-4448-b4d7-f164409fe056

Spatial Representation Type

vector data is used to represent geographic data

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