Canadian GIS Resources

Monday August 21st 2006
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Leads to free data, advancements in GIS pertaining to Canada and links to web sites of some of the leading GIS agencies.

ESRI Canada
ESRI’s Canadian website. Access to ESRI related information data and software.

GeoConnections
This website contains information about news conferences and data sources for Canadian GIS users.

GeoGratis
Vector mapping data is available in scales ranging from 1:250000 to 1:3000000 in a variety of file formats.

Geomatics Industry Association
Central site for Canadian information on resources employment and news for geomatics.

GeoSpatial Data Warehouse
On-line queries of geospatial data at 1:1000000 scale.

The National Soil DataBase (NSDB)
Soils, landscape and climate coverages for all of Canada. Datasets available as ArcInfo export (.e00) files.





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    2 Responses to “Canadian GIS Resources”

    1. Jason Smith on January 4th, 2008 12:49 pm

      Why not add provincial sources for GIS data? For example, a wealth of spatial data for British Columbia is available from the Land and Resource Data Warehouse (lrdw.ca). Access to the data requires free registration on the site.

    2. Index of GIS Data and Resources Country : GIS Lounge - Geographic Information Systems on May 3rd, 2008 9:57 am

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