Lots of data found here from several different Canadian Government Departments as well as links to Provincial and Municipal open government geospatial sites. The Government of Canada Open Data Portal is Canada’s commitment to open government that aims to drive innovation and economic opportunities for all Canadians. It was developed mainly as a central location for making government data freely available in industry standard recognized formats. Well the Federal Government has come to realize that having multiple places to search can be confusing, therefore they have moved GeoGratis and GeoBase data sets into the Government of Canada’s Open Data Portal. Over the years, many people have been confused on where to look when they need National data sets, should they be searching on GeoGratis (a search tool by Natural Resources Canada) or GeoBase (initiative created by the Canadian Council on Geomatics – CCOG)? In the mean time start using some of these great data resources available in Canada to generate geospatial products.ĭownload Canadian Open Data Resources National Data If you know of any other Canadian open data that we have not listed here then let us know so we can include that information here (or find any dead links then let us know as well). We started this page in 2010 as a way to collaborate links to all Canadian Open Data (sites that offer data downloads at no cost and without restrictions), free geospatial data, online web mapping applications and other sources of geospatial information (including National, Provincial and Municipal levels). During that time there has been plenty of great praise, feedback and emails regarding these efforts in helping to promote Canadian geospatial data and ensuring that everybody in the geomatics community knows where to find data for their projects. Over the past few years we have been highlighting and promoting various cities and provinces in Canada that have done a great job providing Open Geospatial Data and geospatial applications to the public. In fact more and more are popping up all over the web and some cities like Ottawa are even having contests to help promote the use of their data. But it doesn’t always have to be that way, as there are plenty of great resources available that offer free Canadian open data that you can use with your geomatics projects to generate geospatial products. The data can be in the form of vectors, rasters, aerial photography or statistical tabular data and most often the data component can be very costly or labor intensive. Canadian Open Data and Free Geospatial Data Resources: Almost anyone in the geospatial community would agree that a major part of any GIS project would be the data sets involved.
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