Administrative Boundaries in Canada - CanVec Series - Administrative Features

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

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Date ( RI_366 )
2016-04-25
Date ( RI_367 )
2019-03
RI_414
  Government of Canada; Natural Resources Canada;Strategic Policy and Innovation Sector
Presentation form
mapDigital;carteNumérique RI_391
Status
onGoing; enContinue RI_596
Maintenance and update frequency
asNeeded; auBesoin RI_540
Update scope
dataset; jeuDonnées RI_622
Keywords ( RI_525 )
  • Canada
Keywords ( RI_524 )
  • Earth Sciences
Keywords ( RI_529 )
  • Administrative boundaries
  • CanVec
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  • 5 000 000
  • 15 000 000
  • 1,000,000
  • 5,000,000
  • 15 000 000
  • 1M
  • 5M
  • 15M
Keywords ( RI_528 )
  • Border
  • Geopolitical limits
  • Territorial boundary
  • Provincial limit
Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus Thésaurus des sujets de base du gouvernement du Canada ( RI_528 )
  • Earth sciences
  • Cartography
  • Geography
  • Geographic data
  • Geographic information systems
  • Geomatics
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
Metadata language
fra; CAN
Character set
utf8; utf8 RI_458
Topic category
  • Boundaries
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Begin date
1944
Reference system identifier
https://www.epsg-registry.org / EPSG:4617 / 8.8.1
Reference system identifier
https://www.epsg-registry.org / EPSG:5713 / 8.8.1
Distribution format
  • SHP ( N/A )

    File decompression technique
    ZIP

  • FGDB/GDB ( 10.1 )

    File decompression technique
    ZIP

  • GPKG ( 1.2.1 )

    File decompression technique
    ZIP

  • WMS ( 1.3.0 )

    Specification
    Open Geospatial Consortium Inc., OpenGIS Web Map Service (WMS) Implementation Specification, Version 1.3.0, 2006-03-15, Reference number of this OGC® project document: 06-042 (https://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=14 416)

RI_412
  Government of Canada; Natural Resources Canada;Strategic Policy and Innovation Sector
OnLine resource
Administrative Bounderies (Group layer) ( OGC:WMS )

Web Service;WMS;eng

OnLine resource
Administrative Bounderies (Group layer) ( OGC:WMS )

Web Service;WMS;fra

OnLine resource
Prepackaged FGDB files (download directory) ( HTTPS )

Dataset;FGDB/GDB;eng,fra

OnLine resource
Prepackaged Shapefiles (download directory) ( HTTPS )

Dataset;SHP;eng,fra

OnLine resource
Index of available files (drag and drop the kmz file in Google Earth to localize your region of interest) ( HTTPS )

Supporting Document;KMZ;eng,fra

OnLine resource
Drop-down navigation menu to CanVec Serie documentation and online data catalogues ( HTTPS )

Supporting Document;HTML;eng,fra

File identifier
306e5004-534b-4110-9feb-58e3a5c3fd97 XML
Metadata language
eng; CAN
Character set
utf8; utf8 RI_458
Parent identifier
Topographic Data of Canada - CanVec Series 8ba2aa2a-7bb9-4448-b4d7-f164409fe056
Hierarchy level
dataset; jeuDonnées RI_622
Date stamp
2023-03-30T15:37:54
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;Strategic Policy and Innovation Sector
 
 

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