Canadian Geographical Names - CGN

The Canadian Geographical Names Data Base (CGNDB) is the authoritative national database of Canada's geographical names. The purpose of the CGNDB is to store place names and their attributes that have been approved by the Geographical Names Board of Canada (GNBC), the national coordinating body responsible for standards and policies on place names. The CGNDB is maintained by Natural Resources Canada, through the Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation. The geographic extent of the CGNDB is the Canadian landmass and water bodies; the temporal extent is from 1897 to present. This dataset is extracted from the CGNDB on a weekly basis, and consists of current officially approved names, feature type, coordinates of the feature, decision date, source, and other attributes. The output file formats for this product are: text (CSV), Shape (SHP), and Keyhole Markup Language (KML).

Content advisory: The Canadian Geographical Names Database contains historical terminology that is considered racist, offensive and derogatory. Geographical naming authorities are in the process of addressing many offensive place names, but the work is still ongoing. For more information, please contact the GNBC Secretariat.

Date ( RI_367 ): 2017-04-20

Date ( RI_366 ): 2017-04-20

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Government of Canada; Natural Resources Canada;

Strategic Policy and Innovation Sector; Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation

Presentation form: mapDigital;carteNumérique RI_391

Status: onGoing; enContinue RI_596

Maintenance and update frequency: weekly; hebdomadaire RI_534

Update scope: feature; entité RI_626

Keywords ( RI_525 )

Canada

Keywords ( RI_524 )

Earth Sciences

Keywords ( RI_529 )

CGN
GNBC
CGNDB

Keywords ( RI_528 )

Place Names
Geographical Names
Toponymy

Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus Thésaurus des sujets de base du gouvernement du Canada ( RI_528 )

Geography
Maps
Toponymy
Geographic data
Geographical maps

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

Classification: unclassified; nonClassifié RI_484

Spatial representation type: vector; vecteur RI_635

Metadata language: eng; CAN

Metadata language: fra; CAN

Character set: utf8; utf8 RI_458

Topic category

Location

Begin date: 1897

Reference system identifier: http://www.epsg-registry.org / EPSG:4617 / 8.4.1

Distribution format

SHP ( unknown )

File decompression technique

ZIP
KML ( 2.2 )

File decompression technique

KMZ
CSV ( unknown )

File decompression technique

ZIP

RI_412

Government of Canada; Natural Resources Canada;

Strategic Policy and Innovation Sector; Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation

OnLine resource: Documentation related to Canadian Geographical Names (CGN) ( HTTP )
Supporting Document;PDF;eng,fra

OnLine resource: Pre-packaged CSV files - CGN Canada/Province/Territory/Undersea ( HTTP )
Dataset;CSV;fra

OnLine resource: Pre-packaged CSV files - CGN Canada/Province/Territory/Undersea ( HTTP )
Dataset;CSV;eng

OnLine resource: Pre-packaged KML files - CGN Canada/Province/Territory/Undersea ( HTTP )
Dataset;KML;eng

OnLine resource: Pre-packaged KML files - CGN Canada/Province/Territory/Undersea ( HTTP )
Dataset;KML;fra

OnLine resource: Pre-packaged SHP files - CGN Canada/Province/Territory/Undersea ( HTTP )
Dataset;SHP;eng

OnLine resource: Pre-packaged SHP files - CGN Canada/Province/Territory/Undersea ( HTTP )
Dataset;SHP;fra

Hierarchy level: dataset; jeuDonnées RI_622

Description: The precursor to the CGNDB (Canadian Geographical Names Database) was developed in 1978 to replace an expanding paper file catalogue in place since the establishment of the Geographical Board of Canada in 1897. The Geographical Board of Canada was later replaced by the Geographical Names Board of Canada.

RI_416

Government of Canada; Natural Resources Canada; Strategic Policy and Innovation Sector; Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation