CGDI Analysis Ready Data Service Kits

Natural Resources Canada commissioned a UNA (user needs assessment) study for the CGDI (Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure) to build upon previous work and understand the current requirements of Canadian CGDI users, including data users and suppliers, with special attention paid to the requirements of Indigenous organizations. In response to the findings of the Assessment, the CGDI analysis ready data ‘Starter Kits’ concept was established to help CGDI users to quickly get started and begin to obtain value out of geospatial datasets available through the CGDI. The curation of content and datasets addresses the common challenge faced by new users regarding which datasets to access and use to get started with GIS and the CGDI. The Open Government Portal has over 71,000 datasets under the “Nature and Environment” theme. This vast number of datasets provides a barrier to novice users when deciding which datasets they should use. Within the context of the CGDI, the data for the Starter Kits comes primarily from Federal and Provincial suppliers, e.g., Open Government of Canada and Provincial/Territorial agencies that are part of the Canadian Council on Geomatics. To embrace the benefits of the CGDI, where possible, datasets are integrated into the Starter Kits using spatial web services (e.g., WMS or WFS), to limit the size of the data package and ensure that users always have access to the latest data being provided by the supplier. For both the ArcGIS and QGIS Starter Kits, for several layers scale dependency is used so that detailed datasets only appear when the user zooms into the map to a certain scale in some cases.

To generate the CGDI Starter Kit concept, four kits were developed organized into four areas or categories: British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Climate Change, and Water Resources.

For BC and NWT, base datasets are grouped thematically as follows: Administrative Boundaries; Settlements; Hydrology; First Nations/Inuit; Protected Areas; Forestry; Land Cover/Land Use; Wildlife; Mining; Oil and Gas; Elevation; Infrastructure; Base imagery;

For Climate Change and Water Resources, base datasets are grouped thematically as follows: Administrative Boundary; Natural Events; Settlements; Elevation and Hillshade; Infrastructure; Critical Habitat; Base imagery; Base hydrology.

Additional select data sets focused on the themes of water resources and climate change are also compiled and included. Example datasets include: Groundwater (e.g., aquifer vulnerability): Marine (e.g., shoreline classification); Surface Water (e.g., National Hydro Network);Snow and Ice (e.g., permafrost) Water Quality (e.g., Canadian Aquatic Biomonitoring Network -CABIN); Adjusted and Homogenized Canadian Climate Data (AHCCD); PRISM Data for BC (e.g., Precipitation, Max and Minimum Temperation); Climate Atlas of Canada; Arctic Ocean currents; Spatial distribution of hillslope thermokarst Agri-Environmental Indicator – AEI (e.g., Air Quality, GHG budget, etc.); Meteorological Service of Canada (e.g., Geospatial Web Services 2.8.0); Climate Normals 1981-2010; Adapt West Climate Adaptation Data.

Each Starter Kit is “a start” and should not be considered a comprehensive compilation of geospatial data. Its purpose is to stimulate users to search for and obtain additional datasets as needed (supported using other recipes in the CGDI Cookbook).

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Date ( RI_367 )
2021-02
Date ( RI_366 )
2020-03
RI_408
  Government of Canada;Natural Resources Canada;Geoconnections / Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure Division (CGDI) - ( )
Status
completed; complété RI_593
Maintenance and update frequency
notPlanned; nonPlanifié RI_542
Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus Thésaurus des sujets de base du gouvernement du Canada ( Theme )
  • Petroleum industry
  • Ice
  • Satellite imagery
  • Infrastructures
  • Air quality
  • Boundaries
  • Gasoline
  • Habitats
  • Water quality
  • Water
  • Precipitation
  • Game (Wildlife)
  • Inuit
  • Coasts
  • Internet
  • Atlases
  • Services
  • Groundwater
  • Conservation areas
  • Natural disasters
  • Aquatic animals
  • Oceanography
  • Greenhouse gases
  • Agriculture
  • Snow
  • Satellite images
  • Climate
  • Indigenous peoples
  • Forestry
  • Land management
  • Arctic
  • Hydrology
  • Topography
  • Land cover
  • Coastal waters
  • Climate change
  • Meteorology
  • Surface water
  • Mining industry
Use limitation
Open Government Licence - Canada (http://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada)
Access constraints
license; licence RI_606
Use constraints
license; licence RI_606
Spatial representation type
vector; vecteur RI_635
Metadata language
eng; CAN
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information
Begin date
2020-03
End date
2020-03
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Reference system identifier
http://www.epsg-registry.org / EPSG:3978 /
Distribution format
  • GPKG ( unknown )

  • MXD ( unknown )

RI_412
  Government of Canada;Natural Resources Canada;Federal Geospatial Platform - ( )
OnLine resource
4. CGDI Starter Kits National Spatial Water Resource Data GeoPackage English ( FTP )

Dataset;GPKG;eng

OnLine resource
4. CGDI Starter Kits National Spatial Water Resource Data Map Package English ( FTP )

Dataset;MXD;eng

OnLine resource
2. CGDI Starter Kits Technical Troubleshooting English ( FTP )

Supporting Document;PDF;eng

OnLine resource
4. CGDI Starter Kits Territorial Spatial Data NWT GeoPackage English ( FTP )

Dataset;GPKG;eng

OnLine resource
4. CGDI Starter Kits National Spatial Climate Data GeoPackage English ( FTP )

Dataset;GPKG;eng

OnLine resource
4. CGDI Starter Kits National Spatial Climate Data Map Package English ( FTP )

Dataset;MXD;eng

OnLine resource
3. CGDI Starter Kits National Spatial Climate Data Catalogue English ( FTP )

Supporting Document;XLSX;eng

OnLine resource
3. CGDI Starter Kits Provincial Data Catalogue English ( FTP )

Supporting Document;XLSX;eng

OnLine resource
3. CGDI Starter Kits National Spatial Water Resource Data Catalogue English ( FTP )

Supporting Document;XLSX;eng

OnLine resource
4. CGDI Starter Kits Provincial Spatial Data BC GeoPackage English ( FTP )

Dataset;GPKG;eng

OnLine resource
4. CGDI Starter Kits Provincial Spatial Data BC Map Package English ( FTP )

Dataset;MXD;eng

OnLine resource
4. CGDI Starter Kits Territorial Spatial Data NWT Map Package English ( FTP )

Dataset;MXD;eng

OnLine resource
5 CGDI Primer French ( FTP )

Supporting Document;PDF;fra

OnLine resource
5 CGDI Primer English ( FTP )

Supporting Document;PDF;eng

OnLine resource
5 CGDI Factsheet French ( FTP )

Supporting Document;PDF;fra

OnLine resource
5 CGDI Factsheet English ( FTP )

Supporting Document;PDF;eng

OnLine resource
5 CGDI Cookbook French ( FTP )

Supporting Document;PDF;fra

OnLine resource
5 CGDI Cookbook English ( FTP )

Supporting Document;PDF;eng

OnLine resource
2. CGDI Starter Kits Technical Troubleshooting French ( FTP )

Supporting Document;PDF;fra

OnLine resource
1. CGDI Starter Kits Read Me File ArcGIS English ( FTP )

Supporting Document;PDF;eng

OnLine resource
1. CGDI Starter Kits Read Me File ArcGIS French ( FTP )

Supporting Document;PDF;fra

OnLine resource
2. CGDI Starter Kits Read Me QGIS English ( FTP )

Supporting Document;PDF;eng

OnLine resource
2. CGDI Starter Kits Read Me QGIS French ( FTP )

Supporting Document;PDF;fra

File identifier
2364749d-70a0-4874-956d-a636401ac5a6 XML
Metadata language
eng; CAN
Character set
utf8; utf8 RI_458
Hierarchy level
dataset; jeuDonnées RI_622
Date stamp
2021-04-08T13:41:10
Metadata standard name
North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003 - Geographic information - Metadata
Metadata standard version
CAN/CGSB-171.100-2009
RI_414
  Government of Canada;Natural Resources Canada;Geoconnections / Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure Division (CGDI) - ( )
 
 

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Keywords

Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus
Agriculture Air quality Aquatic animals Arctic Atlases Boundaries Climate Climate change Coastal waters Coasts Conservation areas Forestry Game (Wildlife) Gasoline Greenhouse gases Groundwater Habitats Hydrology Ice Indigenous peoples Infrastructures Internet Inuit Land cover Land management Meteorology Mining industry Natural disasters Oceanography Petroleum industry Precipitation Satellite imagery Satellite images Services Snow Surface water Topography Water Water quality

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