Geopolitical Boundary - Administrative boundaries in Canada - CanVec – Administrative Features - 15M

Title
Geopolitical Boundary - Administrative boundaries in Canada - CanVec – Administ…
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Abstract

Linear feature that delimits a province, territory, state, country or administrative area, or represents an adjacent line.

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
Type
Vector Data
Keywords
Category
Boundaries
Legal land descriptions. Examples: political and administrative boundaries.
Regions
North America
Responsible
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

Layer WMS GetCapabilities document

Attribute Name Label Description
fid
feature_id Feature Identifier Unique feature identifier.
ad_poli_id Administrative Political Identifier Unique identifier of the political feature or boundary
bd_desc Boundary Descriptor Type of line or boundary. The attribute value is a numeric code.
bd_desc_en Boundary Descriptor-English Type of line or boundary. The attribute value is an English denomination.
bd_desc_fr Boundary Descriptor-French Type of line or boundary. The attribute value is a French denomination.
spat_co Spatial Coincidence Indicates if the feature geometrically follows a feature from another class and if so identifies the type of feature being followed.The attribute value is a numeric code.
spat_co_en Spatial Coincidence-English Indicates if the feature geometrically follows a feature from another class and if so identifies the type of feature being followed. The attribute value is an English denomination.
spat_co_fr Spatial Coincidence-French Indicates if the feature geometrically follows a feature from another class and if so identifies the type of feature being followed. The attribute value is an French denomination.
map_sel Map Selection Feature selection artefact used to adapt data display according to a predefined data representation or density such as dense, medium or sparse. The attribute value is a numeric code.
map_sel_en Map Selection-English Feature selection artefact used to adapt data display according to a predefined data representation or density such as dense, medium or sparse. The attribute value is an English denomination.
map_sel_fr Map Selection-French Feature selection artefact used to adapt data display according to a predefined data representation or density such as dense, medium or sparse. The attribute value is a French denomination.

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