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National Public Alerting System (SNAP) - Quebec Alert: Quebec Alert Zones

To recognize the importance of interoperable emergency communications in the context of protecting Canadians, a Specifications Committee for the Common Alert Protocol Canadian Profile (PC-PAC) 1.0 was formed by the Federal-Provincial-Territorial Interoperability Working Group (GTI FPT) of Senior Emergency Management Officials (CSRGU), with the support of the Interoperability Development Office (BDI) of Public Safety Canada (SP). The members of the PC-PAC 1.0 Specifications Committee, including the Quebec Ministry of Public Security (MSP), are responsible for developing, approving, and managing technical content requirements based on the specification documents for PC-PAC 1.0. For more details on the committee: https://www.securitepublique.gc.ca/cnt/mrgnc-mngmnt/mrgnc-prprdnss/capcp/index-fr.aspx. The PC-PAC is currently published in three documents: 1. Introduction to the PC-PAC and set of rules; 2. Lexicon of events; 3. Location lexicon. The content of the PC-PAC location lexicon is controlled independently of other documents, as it is expected that it may have more frequent updates over time, independent of PC-PAC 1.0. As part of the update of the PC-PAC location lexicon of version 1.0, the MSP decided to generate itself the list of location references, called geocodes, and associated polygons for the province of Quebec. The dataset of alert zones used in the National Public Alerting System — called Quebec Alert by the MSP — is the result of the generation of this list based on the official territorial boundaries of the Government of Quebec (http://geoboutique.mern.gouv.qc.ca/PDF_ZIP/Structure_CADM-20K.pdf). Geocodes and polygons are associated with the reference material from the PC-PAC location lexicon that accompanies PC-PAC 1.0. They are divided and generalized according to the territorial boundaries of regional county municipalities (RCMs) as well as municipalities, indigenous territories and unorganized territories. The generalization of polygons was decided in order to ensure complete coverage of territories and reduce the weight of polygons for rapid processing by distributors during an alert. Each polygon contains 1,500 vertices and has a buffer zone of 250 m around its true limit. The data architecture is the same as the lexicon of PC-PAC locations, which is that of Statistics Canada's Standard Geographical Classification system. Thus, the zone layer based on the territorial boundaries of MRCs is associated with that of the census division (“CD”) and the layer of areas based on the territorial boundaries of municipalities, indigenous territories and unorganized territories is associated with the census subdivision (“CSD”). The Ministry of Public Security strongly recommends that organizations that want to broadcast or distribute emergency alerts compatible with PC-PAC 1.0 in Quebec use these geocode and polygon datasets.**This third party metadata element was translated using an automated translation tool (Amazon Translate).**

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Date ( RI_367 )
2017-08-30
Date ( RI_366 )
2017-08-30
RI_418
  Government and Municipalities of Québec; Government and Municipalities of Québec; Ministère de la Sécurité publique - Ministère de la Sécurité publique ( )
https://www.donneesquebec.ca
Status
planned; planifié RI_597
Maintenance and update frequency
annually; annuel RI_539
Keywords ( RI_528 )
  • Alert
  • On alert
  • Quebec on alert
  • SNAP
Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus Thésaurus des sujets de base du gouvernement du Canada ( RI_528 )
  • Government information
Use limitation
Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution (CC-BY) licence – Quebec (https://www.donneesquebec.ca/fr/licence/)
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
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information
Begin date
0001-01-01
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RI_418
  Government and Municipalities of Québec; Government and Municipalities of Québec; Ministère de la Sécurité publique - Ministère de la Sécurité publique ( )
https://www.donneesquebec.ca
OnLine resource
Full list of alert zones ( HTTPS )

Dataset;CSV;fra

OnLine resource
Municipal Alert Zone - CSD (GeoJSON) ( HTTPS )

Dataset;GEOJSON;fra

OnLine resource
MRC alert zone -CD (GeoJSON) ( HTTPS )

Dataset;GEOJSON;fra

OnLine resource
Interactive map ( HTTPS )

Dataset;HTML;fra

OnLine resource
Original metadata (https://www.donneesquebec.ca) ( HTTPS )

Dataset;HTML;fra

OnLine resource
Municipal Alert Zone - CSD (Shapefile) ( HTTPS )

Dataset;SHP;fra

OnLine resource
MRC alert zone - CD (Shapefile) ( HTTPS )

Dataset;SHP;fra

File identifier
fcae48c0-0612-44d2-8b24-17af9a3bfdd3 XML
Metadata language
eng; CAN
Character set
utf8; utf8 RI_458
Hierarchy level
dataset; jeuDonnées RI_622
Date stamp
2024-04-03
Metadata standard name
North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003 - Geographic information - Metadata
Metadata standard version
HNAP ISO:19115 - 2003
RI_418
  Government and Municipalities of Québec; Government and Municipalities of Québec; Ministère de la Sécurité publique - Ministère de la Sécurité publique ( )
https://www.donneesquebec.ca
 
 

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