Wooded Areas, Saturated Soils and Landscape in Canada - CanVec Series - Land Features

The land features of the CanVec series contains landscape features of Canada such as islands, shoreline delineation, wooded areas, saturated soil features, landform features (esker, sand, etc.).

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

Related Products (Open Maps Links):

[Topographic Data of Canada - CanVec Series](https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/8ba2aa2a-7bb9-4448-b4d7-f164409fe056)

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Date ( RI_367 )
2019-03
Date ( RI_366 )
2016-04-25
RI_414
  Government of Canada; Natural Resources Canada;Geoscience and Earth Monitoring Sector; Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation; GeoBase - ( )
Canada
Status
completed; complété RI_593
Maintenance and update frequency
notPlanned; nonPlanifié RI_542
Keywords ( RI_528 )
  • Forest
  • Esker
  • Wetlands
  • Moraine
  • Landscape
Keywords ( RI_524 )
  • Earth Sciences
  • Geomorphology
Keywords ( RI_529 )
  • CanVec
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Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus Thésaurus des sujets de base du gouvernement du Canada ( RI_528 )
  • Cartography
  • Educational resources
  • Geographic information systems
  • Geographic data
  • Data dictionaries
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
Metadata language
fra
Character set
utf8; utf8 RI_458
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information
Begin date
1944
End date
2019
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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
    OpenGIS Web Map Service (WMS) Implementation Specification

RI_412
  Government of Canada; Natural Resources Canada;Geoscience and Earth Monitoring Sector; Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation; GeoBase - ( )
Canada
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) KMZ ( HTTPS )

Supporting Document;KMZ;eng,fra

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

Supporting Document;HTML;eng,fra

OnLine resource
Landscape Features (Group layer) ( OGC:WMS )

Web Service;WMS;eng

OnLine resource
Landscape Features (Group layer) ( OGC:WMS )

Web Service;WMS;fra

OnLine resource
CanVec customized files (selectable product, extent, format) - Geospatial Data Extraction Tool ( HTTPS )

Application;Web App;eng

OnLine resource
CanVec customized files (selectable product, extent, format) - Geospatial Data Extraction Tool ( HTTPS )

Application;Web App;fra

File identifier
80aa8ec6-4947-48de-bc9c-7d09d48b4cad 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
2025-12-15T10:21:48
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;Geoscience and Earth Monitoring Sector; Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation; GeoBase - ( )
Canada
 
 

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