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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. 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. 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. 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.
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. 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.
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).
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. In the mean time start using some of these great data resources available in Canada to generate geospatial products.
[page last updated January 2021]
The background map graphic above used with permission from globalquiz.org
National Data
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National Data
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)?
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.
Government of Canada Open Data Portal
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. Lots of data found here from several different Canadian Government Departments as well as links to Provincial and Municipal open government geospatial sites.
http://open.canada.ca/en/open-data
Canada Lands
Canada Lands are defined as any lands belonging to Her Majesty in right of Canada or of which the Government of Canada that are situated in the Yukon, the Northwest Territories, Nunavut or in any National Park of Canada and any lands that are surrendered lands or a Reserve, as defined by the Indian Act. Therefore Canada Lands include the Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut; over 2600 Indian Reserves; Canada’s National and Historic Parks; and Canada’s offshore area. The Surveyor General Branch of Natural Resources Canada provides public access to a variety of cadastral and topographic related data sets including orthophotos and much more.
To download Canada Lands data separated by Province / Territory see ftp://ftp.nrcan.gc.ca/ess/sgb_pub/sgb_datasets/
Atlas of Canada
The Atlas of Canada has been around for more then 100 years but has changed significantly since its early days (http://atlas.nrcan.gc.ca/site/english/history.html). The majority of content on this site consist of pre-made geographic map products at a national level that you can order or download for free & print on your own. Note: The website is changing again, to match the way maps are retrieved and displayed to comply with the Government of Canada’s web content accessibility guidelines.
– http://atlas.nrcan.gc.ca
CanMatrix Topographic Maps
Print Ready Topographic Maps, these maps are no longer updated however contain over 42,000 NTS maps covering all regions of Canada, and are still widely used by people all across the country http://ftp.geogratis.gc.ca/pub/nrcan_rncan/raster/canmatrix2/
UTM zones & rows map – With this world map you can easily find out what UTM zone you are working from.
Geospatial Data Extractor Tool
The purpose of this mapping application is to help provide tailored geospatial datasets based on your coverage needs
https://maps.canada.ca/czs/index-en.html
Environment
There are various environmental data collections in many disciplines including wildlife, biodiversity, water, air, soil, climate, pollution, environmental prediction and environmental technologies.
- Historical Climate Data – http://climate.weather.gc.ca/index_e.html
- Canadian Climate Data and Scenarios – http://climate-scenarios.canada.ca
- Canadian Wind Energy Atlas – http://www.windatlas.ca/index-en.php
- The National Soil DataBase (NSDB) – http://sis.agr.gc.ca/cansis/nsdb/index.html
- Fisheries and Oceans Canada – http://geoportal.gc.ca/eng/Gallery/Maps
- National Ecological Framework for Canada – http://sis.agr.gc.ca/cansis/nsdb/ecostrat/index.html
- Canadian Disaster Database – https://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/cnt/rsrcs/cndn-dsstr-dtbs/index-en.aspx
Water and Environmental Hub (WEHUB) – A project with a cloud based open data platform to help make it easier for individuals and organizations to find, access, and share water and environmental data. http://waterandenvironmentalhub.ca/
Statistics Canada A large variety of census data is available for free from Statistics Canada http://www.statcan.gc.ca/
This has become a Crowd Sourced page thanks to all the generous people in the geospatial community who continue to update us with new resources and report ones that have moved or no longer exist.
If you know of any great free data sources that we have not included, or know of any issues on this page, then we encourage you to let us know!
Provincial and Regional Canadian Data
Alberta Data
The Alberta Geospatial Centre maintains Alberta’s Geospatial Data Authority. Geodiscover Alberta provide quality, authoritative mapping data to citizens that falls under the Open Data Licence to the Alberta Government Open Data Site and provides official data to the AltaLIS group for distribution (fee based). https://geodiscover.alberta.ca/geoportal/
Alberta Open Data Portal – The portal makes data that the Government of Alberta collects on behalf of citizens publicly available https://open.alberta.ca/opendata
AltaLIS Alberta data available through a partnership with the Alberta Government and Spatial Data Warehouse, it has been the main supplier of Alberta Base Mapping Data to the private sector since 1998. AltaLIS offers digital mapping products categorized into three main groups: Property, Base, and Terrain. Note: Most data at this site is not free but they do offer updated imagery products for almost 40% of the province.
– http://www.altalis.com/altalis.html
Open Data Areas Alberta (ODAA) – ODAA is a new undertaking being spearheaded by Alberta Data Partnerships to put extensive data in the hands of those who can use it. Datasets from six key rural areas across Alberta is available for no cost – download data from Beaver Hills, Fort McMurray, Fox Creek, RMH Sylvan, Taber and Utikuma Lake http://opendataareas.ca/data/
Alberta Geological Survey AGS has a large selection of maps and data for different areas of Alberta showing surficial and bedrock geology, drift thickness, groundwater/hydrogeology, and mineral resources. The AGS Open Data catalog features a subset of GIS data related to geology of the province of Alberta and published by the Alberta Geological Survey (AGS http://geology.ags-aer.opendata.arcgis.com/
Alberta Historical Orthophotos – georeferenced orthophoto maps consisting of aerial photography mainly from 1949 to 1951 with coverage for the whole province
Historical Alberta Resource Atlas – https://www.alberta.ca/historical-alberta-resource-atlas-series-maps.aspx
Alberta Natural Resource geospatial data & maps – https://www.alberta.ca/natural-resource-geo-spatial-data-maps.aspx
Airdie, Alberta – http://www.calgaryregionopendata.ca/browse/2939
Town of Banff, Alberta –
Region of Beaver Hills, Alberta – http://opendataareas.ca/data/?sfid=113&_sft_product-region=beaver-hills
Town of Black Diamond, Alberta – http://www.calgaryregionopendata.ca/browse/3633
Calgary, Alberta –
City of Calgary Open Data Catalogue – https://data.calgary.ca
Calgary Region Open Data http://www.calgaryregionopendata.ca (provides free and open access to 100+ data sets)
City of Airdrie Data – https://opener.dobt.co/calgary-regional-partnership/browse/2939
Town of Canmore, Alberta – http://www.calgaryregionopendata.ca/browse/3539
City of Chestermere, Alberta – http://www.calgaryregionopendata.ca/browse/4856
Cochrane, Alberta – http://www.calgaryregionopendata.ca/browse/2843
Edmonton, Alberta –
Capital Region Open Data http://crb.capitalregion.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets
Fort McMurray Prairie, Alberta – http://opendataareas.ca/data/?sfid=113&_sft_product-region=fort-mcmurray
Region of Fox Creek, Alberta – – http://opendataareas.ca/data/?sfid=113&_sft_product-region=fox-creek
City of Grande Prairie, Alberta –
http://data.cogp.opendata.arcgis.com/
http://www.countygp.ab.ca/EN/main/community/maps-gis/open-data/data.html (includes LiDAR data)
County of Grande Prairie, Alberta – http://www.countygp.ab.ca/EN/main/community/maps-gis/open-data/data.html
Town of High River, Alberta – http://www.calgaryregionopendata.ca/browse/6849
Town of Irricana, Alberta – http://www.calgaryregionopendata.ca/browse/3653
Lethbridge, Alberta – http://opendata.lethbridge.ca
Medicine Hat, Alberta – http://data.medicinehat.ca
Town of Nanton, Alberta – http://www.calgaryregionopendata.ca/browse/3879
Town of Okotoks, Alberta – https://okotoksmaps-okotoks.hub.arcgis.com/pages/open-data-portal
Red Deer, Alberta – http://data.reddeer.ca
Town of Strathmore, Alberta – https://open.alberta.ca/dataset?q=%22Strathmore%22
Southwestern Alberta (ORRSC planning region) http://www.orrsc.com/members-page
St. Albert, Alberta http://data.stalbert.ca/
Strathcona County, Alberta – https://data.strathcona.ca
Taber, Alberta – http://opendataareas.ca/?sfid=510&_sft_product-region=taber
Region of Utikuma Lake, Alberta –http://opendataareas.ca/?sfid=510&_sft_product-region=utikuma-lake
British Columbia Data
DataBC – Data BC was one of the first provincial open data sites in Canada http://www.data.gov.bc.ca & http://developer.gov.bc.ca/ – Should be your first stop when searching for British Columbia geospatial data (not all free)
BC Economic Atlas is designed to support investment opportunity identification, business case analysis and decision-making in British Columbia. BCEA provides free, user-friendly, public access to spatial data related to economic development, demographics and natural resources. In addition, custom tools enable interactive search and reporting on First Nations consultation contacts, Major Projects Inventory and Preliminary Opportunities and Constraints. (www.gov.bc.ca/economicatlas)
BC Transit contains a variety of associated geographical info for the communities: Campbell River, Central Fraser Valley, Chilliwack, Comox Valley, Kamloops, Kelowna, Nanaimo, Prince George, Squamish, Victoria & Whistler https://bctransit.com/*/footer/open-data
Open Data Society of BC – a large mix of British Columbia data sets all together in one place https://www.opendatabc.ca/dataset
Community Mapping Network (CMN) – sharing a wealth of natural resource information and maps of various communities in British Columbia, CMN integrates data from many sources and makes it accessible through a user friendly mapping system http://www.cmnbc.ca/
British Columbia Marine Conservation Analysis – download ecological and human use maps and data for the Canadian Pacific https://bcmca.ca/maps-data/browse-or-search/
Capital Regional District, British Columbia – https://www.crd.bc.ca/about/data
Chilliwack, British Columbia – http://www.chilliwack.com/main/page.cfm?id=2329
Cowichan Valley Regional District, British Columbia –
http://www.cvrd.bc.ca/2024/Geospatial-Data (data includes orthophotos & contours have been derived from LiDAR data)
Kamloops, British Columbia – http://www.kamloops.ca/downloads/maps/launch.htm
Kelowna, British Columbia –
City of Kelowna http://www.kelowna.ca/CM/Page3936.aspx
District of West Kelowna http://www.districtofwestkelowna.ca/471/Open-Data
Westbank First Nation http://wfn.rdco.opendata.arcgis.com/
District of Lake Country, British Columbia – http://dlc.rdco.opendata.arcgis.com
Langley, British Columbia – https://data.tol.ca/
Regional District of Central Okanagan, British Columbia – http://www.regionaldistrict.com/your-services/mapping-gis/data-files-for-download.aspx
Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen, British Columbia – http://www.rdos.bc.ca/departments/information-services/open-data-downloads/
Regional District of North Okanagan, British Columbia – http://www.rdno.ca/index.php/maps/digital-data
Nanaimo, British Columbia – http://data.nanaimo.ca
Nelson – http://data.nelsoncity.opendata.arcgis.com/
City of New Westminster, British Columbia – http://opendata.newwestcity.ca/
North Vancouver, British Columbia – http://www.geoweb.dnv.org/data/
Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen, British Columbia – http://www.rdos.bc.ca/departments/information-services/open-data-downloads
District of Peachland, British Columbia – http://peachland.rdco.opendata.arcgis.com/
Prince George, British Columbia –
Prince George Open Data: https://data-cityofpg.
Prince George Online Mapping Tool: https://pgmappub.princegeorge.
Town of Qualicum Beach, British Columbia – https://www.opendatabc.ca/organization/qualicum-beach
Richmond, British Columbia – http://www.richmond.ca/gis.htm (interactive web map and pre-made maps)
Saanich, British Columbia http://www.saanich.ca/EN/main/local-government/data-catalogue-1.html
Surrey, British Columbia – http://www.surrey.ca/city-services/658.aspx
Vancouver, British Columbia –
City Open Data http://vancouver.ca/your-government/open-data-catalogue.aspx
Metro Vancouver http://www.metrovancouver.org/data/Pages/default.aspx
Vancouver Open Data Wiki – https://www.socialtext.net/vandata/index.cgi
Vancouver Island, British Columbia –
Islands Trust (pre made maps) http://mapfiles.islandstrust.bc.ca/entire-region-maps/
Islands Trust (data sets) http://mapfiles.islandstrust.bc.ca/DATA/IT/
Vernon, British Columbia – https://www.vernon.ca/government-services/maps-gis/open-data-catalogue
Victoria, British Columbia – http://www.victoria.ca/EN/main/city/open-data-catalogue.html
City of White Rock, British Columbia – http://data.whiterockcity.ca
Manitoba Data
Manitoba Land Initiative – Great source for geo-spatial information from the Government of Manitoba, intended for both the GIS expert and the decision maker allowing on-line access to the MLI corporate land data warehouse. Note: Users need to be registered but it is free to register http://mli2.gov.mb.ca/
http://mli2.gov.mb.ca/mli_data/index.html
Manitoba Geoscience – Maps at various scales portraying the geology, geophysics, geochronology and mineral occurrences for Manitoba (also includes downloadable geophysical datasets) https://www.manitoba.ca/iem/geo/gis/index.html
Manitoba Assessment Online provides both the public and subscribers access to property assessment information. https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=2c09ffc330684c7a9a7ff1065ee6859b
Ortho Photography – http://mli2.gov.mb.ca/ortho/index_sid_south_imagemap.html
Brandon, Manitoba – http://opengov.brandon.ca/OpenDataService/opendata.html
Winnipeg, Manitoba – City of Winnipeg maps, aerial photos and data https://www.winnipeg.ca/interhom/maps/ and the Winnipeg Open Data Portal https://data.winnipeg.ca/
The Lake Winnipeg Basin Information Network (LWBIN) Data Hub http://130.179.67.140/dataset The Lake Winnipeg Basin geography spans across four Canadian Provinces and four American States. The LWBIN was originally developed by Environment Canada as part of Canada’s Action Plan on clean water. It currently lists over 50 data sets.
New Brunswick Data
GeoNB by Service New Brunswick provides Geographic Data & Maps for the province of New Brunswick including topographic layers, property data, orthophotomaps and much more.
http://www.snb.ca/geonb1/e/DC/catalogue-E.asp – GeoNB – Map-Viewer–free
New Brunswick Open Data Portal – https://gnb.socrata.com/en
Maritime Provinces Higher Education Commission – http://www.mphec.ca/research/maritimeuniversitystatistics/opendatadownloads.aspx
Fredericton, New Brunswick – http://www.fredericton.ca/en/citygovernment/DataMain.asp
City of Miramichi, New Brunswick – http://data.gis-sigmiramichi.opendata.arcgis.com/
Moncton, New Brunswick – http://www.moncton.ca/Government/Terms_of_use/Open_Data_Purpose/Data_Catalogue.htm
Saint John, New Brunswick – (includes air photos & historic maps) https://catalogue-saintjohn.opendata.arcgis.com/
New Brunswick Wind Atlas
Newfoundland and Labrador Data
Finding geospatial data for the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador can always be challenging, they have a wealth of data but it is not always easy to find.
Open Data Newfoundland and Labrador – The Newfoundland Open Data Portal opened in 2016 and has close to 100 data sets listed (most are not geospatial) http://opendata.gov.nl.ca
The Newfoundland and Labrador Government offers a variety of prepared maps on this page http://www.stats.gov.nl.ca/Maps/
Fisheries and Land Resources provide various data sets https://www.flr.gov.nl.ca/natural_areas/gis_data.html
Municipal Affairs and Environment provides a range of data including water quality, flood risk and more – https://www.mae.gov.nl.ca/waterres/gis/
Natural Resources provides a variety of data and maps (mostly geology related) https://www.nr.gov.nl.ca/nr/energy/petroleum/onshore/onshore_maps.html
Newfoundland and Labrador Community Accounts Map Centre provides a good collection of data and pre-made maps https://nl.communityaccounts.ca/maps.asp
Community Infrastructure Mapping System – A community information shared online mapping program served via google maps
http://nlcims.ca/CIMS.aspx
City of Mount Pearl – Maps, data, and an online mapping application with property fabric and aerial imagery https://www.mountpearl.ca/government/city-map/
St. John’s Map Viewer – an online mapping application with various geospatial data layers and aerial imagery https://map.stjohns.ca/mapcentre/
Nova Scotia Data
Nova Scotia Open Data Portal – https://data.novascotia.ca
The Province of Nova Scotia’s Open Data Portal is powered by the Socrata Open Data & Citizen Engagement Cloud application. This online application provides the geospatial community access to a wealth of data from a variety of different Government Departments, all accessible from one central location. It contains over 500 different data sets listed across the Province’s various departments including some LIDAR data. – click here for more details on Nova Scotia open data
GeoNOVA is the Province of Nova Scotia’s gateway to geographic information, it includes some free maps but mostly licensed data sets (property data), aerial imagery and orthophotos (fee based) http://gov.ns.ca/geonova/home/
Nova Scotia Elevation Data Explorer – download free LiDAR point data and raster DEMs (coverage includes more then half the Province, and increases more each year) https://nsgi.novascotia.ca/datalocator/elevation/
The Nova Scotia Civic Viewer is an application that combines the Province’s civic and property data-
Historical Maps of Nova Scotia contains hundreds of digitized historical maps of Nova Scotia https://novascotia.ca/archives/maps/
Historic Nova Scotia from Above – The Richard McCully Aerial Photograph Collection, 1931 http://novascotia.ca/archives/mccully/
Maritime Provinces Higher Education Commission – http://www.mphec.ca/research/maritimeuniversitystatistics/opendatadownloads.aspx
Central Nova Scotia – Ortho Imagery & data for Central Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia Museum database for marine organisms, including birds, mammals, and fishes http://ipt.iobis.org/obiscanada/resource?r=nsm
NS Lands and Forestry Downloadable GIS Data – https://novascotia.ca/natr/meb/download/gis-data-maps.asp & https://novascotia.ca/natr/forestry/gis/downloads.asp
Nova Scotia Geospatial Data
If you are looking to download Nova Scotia Geospatial Data then we recommend that you check out this more detailed page that we prepared for a Geomatics Association of Nova Scotia (GANS) Open Data Workshop.
Municipality of the County of Annapolis https://www.thedatazone.ca/browse?Municipal-Information_Municipality-Name=Municipality+of+the+County+of+Annapolis
Cape Breton Regional Municipality (CBRM) https://www.thedatazone.ca/browse?Municipal-Information_Municipality-Name=Cape+Breton+Regional+Municipality+%28CBRM%29
Cumberland County https://data-cumberlandns.opendata.arcgis.com/
Municipality of East Hants open data portal http://data.easthants.opendata.arcgis.com & online maps https://www.easthants.ca/content/interactive-east-hants
Halifax, Nova Scotia – Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM) Open data Portal provides geospatial data related to Civic Addresses, Buildings, Streets, Trails, Parks, Recreation and much more for Halifax, Dartmouth, Bedford, Cole Harbour, Sackville and surrounding areas https://www.halifaxopendata.ca/
Pictou County, Nova Scotia – https://pictoucounty.net/category/maps
Northwest Territories Data
NWT Centre for Geomatics http://www.geomatics.gov.nt.ca/
http://www.geomatics.gov.nt.ca/wms.aspx
Northwest Territories Geological Survey – http://www.nwtgeoscience.ca/our-data-and-searching-tools
ATLAS (The Administration of the Territorial Land Acts System) http://gis.maca.gov.nt.ca/Website/index.asp
Yellowknife, NWT – City of Yellowknife Open Data Portal http://opendata.yellowknife.ca/?_mid_=20512
Nunavut Data
Nunavut Geoscience – http://nunavutgeoscience.ca/mirage/index_e.php (no much data but there are pre made maps)
Nunavut Map Viewer – https://services.aadnc-aandc.gc.ca/nms-scn/gv/index.html
Ontario Data
The Province of Ontario has been providing access to public data since back in the late eighties, but officially launched their open data portal in 2012. It has an extensive data catalogue, with over 2,600 records. It contains a mix of Data that is either open, restricted, under review or in the process of being made open, depending on the sensitivity of the information.
Province of Ontario open data portal
http://www.ontario.ca/government/government-ontario-open-data
Ontario Data catalogue https://www.ontario.ca/search/data-catalogue?sort=asc
Ontario Topographic Data: https://canadiangis.com/how-to-get-ontario-topographic-data-for-your-gis.php
Ontario Basic Mapping (OBM) application – http://www.geographynetwork.ca/website/obm/viewer.htm
LIO (Land Information Ontario) https://www.ontario.ca/page/land-information-ontario
Ministry of Natural Resources – The Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry has a web map application that you can use to make a topographic map of any area of Ontario that interests you. https://www.ontario.ca/page/topographic-maps
Ontario GeoHub – Ontario’s authoritative geospatial data https://geohub.lio.gov.on.ca/
GLIN (Great Lakes Information Network) http://gis.glin.net/
Ontario Basic Mapping (OBM) site by the Geography Network http://www.geographynetwork.ca/website/obm/viewer.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=se7SIpM3U9A
Geology Ontario http://www.mndm.gov.on.ca/en/mines-and-minerals/applications/geologyontario
CLAIMaps – An interactive mapping tool that provides information on mining claims in Ontario, provides the ability to download map images as well as data in SHP format http://www.mndm.gov.on.ca/en/mines-and-minerals/applications/claimaps
Burlington, Ontario – https://navburl-burlington.opendata.arcgis.com
Brampton, Ontario – http://open.brampton.ca/
Cambridge, Ontario – Grand River Conservation Authority https://data.grandriver.ca/downloads.html
Chatham-Kent, Ontario – http://chathamkentopendata.chatham-kent.opendata.arcgis.com/
Durham Region, Ontario – http://opendata.durham.ca/
Grand River Information Network (GRIN) – data for the Grand River watershed http://grims.grandriver.ca/imf/imf.jsp?site=grca_datadis&ddsid=52244c
http://www.grandriver.ca/index/document.cfm?Sec=63&Sub1=16&sub2=0
Grey County, Ontario – http://opendata.grey.ca
Guelph, Ontario – http://open.guelph.ca/open-data-guelph
Haldimand County, Ontario – http://opendata.haldimandcounty.on.ca
Halton, Ontario – http://openhalton.ca
Hamilton, Ontario – https://www.hamilton.ca/city-initiatives/strategies-actions/open-accessible-data
Huron County, Ontario – https://data-huron.opendata.arcgis.com/
Kingston, Ontario – https://www.cityofkingston.ca/explore/data-catalogue
City of Kitchener, Ontario – https://open-kitchenergis.opendata.arcgis.com/
London, Ontario – http://www.london.ca/city-hall/open-data/Pages/default.aspx
Town of Milton, Ontario – http://icreateopendata.public.esolutionsgroup.ca
Mississauga, Ontario – http://data.mississauga.ca/
Niagara Falls, Ontario – https://niagaraopendata.ca & http://www.fallsviewer.ca
Niagara Region, Ontario – http://www.niagararegion.ca/government/opendata
North Frontenac, Ontario – http://data.nftwp.opendata.arcgis.com
Oakville, Ontario – http://www.oakville.ca/data/catalogue.html
Oshawa, Ontario – http://city.oshawa.opendata.arcgis.com
Ottawa, Ontario – http://data.ottawa.ca/ & http://blog.opendataottawa.ca
Peel Region, Ontario – http://opendata.peelregion.ca
St.Catharines, Ontario – included with the Niagara Open Data website (https://niagaraopendata.ca)
Sudbury, Ontario – https://www.greatersudbury.ca/inside-city-hall/open-government/open-data
Thunder Bay, Ontario – http://www.thunderbay.ca/Living/Getting_Around/Thunder_Bay_Transit/Developers_-_Open_Data.htm
Toronto, Ontario – http://www.toronto.ca/open
Waterloo, Ontario (City of Waterloo) – http://opendata.waterloo.ca
Waterloo, Ontario (Region of Waterloo) – http://www.regionofwaterloo.ca/en/regionalgovernment/OpenDataHome.asp
Welland, Ontario – https://www.welland.ca/open/Opendata.asp
Windsor, Ontario – http://www.citywindsor.ca/opendata/Pages/Open-Data-Catalogue.aspx
York Region – www.york.ca/opendata & https://ww6.yorkmaps.ca/YorkMaps/
The University of Toronto Open Data Catalogue contains various data sets http://maps.library.utoronto.ca/cgi-bin/open.pl?display=all
Prince Edward Island Data
PEI Open Data Portal – the Government of Prince Edward Island opened their open data portal in 2018 with almost 200 data sets listed. Here you will find a wide range of data including roads, property, civic and many other geospatial data sets https://data.princeedwardisland.ca/
PEI GIS Data Catalog – http://www.gov.pe.ca/gis/
PEI Aerial Imagery – http://www.gov.pe.ca/maps/index.php3 You can download orthophotos and air photos available for the whole Province including many historic sets as well
Maritime Provinces Higher Education Commission provides aggregated data sets of enrollment and other credentials granted data by Maritime Universities http://www.mphec.ca/research/maritimeuniversitystatistics/opendatadownloads.aspx
Québec Data
The Québec government, along with many of the municipalities of like Laval, Quebec City and Sherbrooke (all had their own open data portals) joined forces in 2016 to create the Québec open data portal. Many other municipalities then followed, and now the site contains almost a thousand different data sets.
Therefore https://www.donneesquebec.ca should always be the best starting point when looking for data for places in the Province of Quebec.
Government of Québec Open Data– https://www.donneesquebec.ca
Quebec Ministère de l’Énergie http://www.mrn.gouv.qc.ca/english/home.jsp
Blainville, Quebec – https://www.donneesquebec.ca/recherche/fr/dataset?organization=ville-de-blainville
Gatineau, Quebec – https://www.donneesquebec.ca/fr/organisation/ville-de-gatineau/
Laval, Quebec – https://www.donneesquebec.ca/fr/organisation/ville-de-laval
Longueuil, Québec – https://www.donneesquebec.ca/recherche/fr/dataset?organization=ville-de-longueuil
Montréal, Québec – https://www.donneesquebec.ca/fr/organisation/ville-de-montreal/
Québec Ouvert – http://www.quebecouvert.org – A community group that promotes open data initiatives to help ensure that data can evolve in a sustainable way towards a future that is open and transparent. Contains lots of great information and resources, especially when you are looking for some of those harder to find data sets …
Le gouvernement du Québec, ainsi que les municipalités de Laval, Québec et Sherbrooke ont uni leurs forces pour créer le portail de données ouvertes du Québec. De nombreuses autres municipalités suivie et, maintenant, le site contient près d’un millier de différents ensembles de données.
Par conséquent https://www.donneesquebec.ca devrait toujours être le meilleur point de départ lors de la recherche de données pour les endroits dans la province de Québec.
Les données ouvertes du gouvernement du Québec– https://www.donneesquebec.ca
Québec City, Québec – https://www.donneesquebec.ca/recherche/fr/dataset?organization=ville-de-quebec
Repentigny, Québec – https://www.donneesquebec.ca/recherche/fr/dataset?organization=ville-de-repentigny
Rimouski, Québec – https://www.donneesquebec.ca/recherche/fr/dataset?q=Ville+de+Rimouski
Rouyn-Noranda, Québec – https://www.donneesquebec.ca/recherche/fr/dataset?organization=ville-de-rouyn-noranda
Saguenay, Québec – https://www.donneesquebec.ca/recherche/fr/organization/ville-de-saguenay
Shawinigan, Québec – https://www.donneesquebec.ca/recherche/fr/organization/ville-de-shawinigan
Sherbrooke, Québec – https://www.donneesquebec.ca/fr/organisation/ville-de-sherbrooke/
Saskatchewan Data
Although Saskatchewan does not yet have an official open data portal or website like the other Provinces do, they do provide plenty of geospatial data and maps resources available from a variety places if you know where to look. The Province does maintain a page with various information on access to Geographic Information, that contains links to online maps, related to administrative boundaries, bathymetry, geology, transportation and others. https://www.saskatchewan.ca/government/government-data
The site OpenDataSK, a blog with open data resources for Saskatchewan was started in 2011 and does contain various sources of data related to Saskatchewan, but unfortunately most of them are now dead links or the sites sourced no longer exist (such as GeoBase).
(data) MapCruzin offers a variety of ArcGIS shapefiles are derived from OpenStreetMap, licensed under the Open Data Commons Open Database License (ODbL). Data they provide includes roads, boundaries, places, water bodies, points of interest and more https://mapcruzin.com/free-canada-saskatchewan-arcgis-maps-shapefiles.htm
Sask Interactive Mapping (mapping application) – https://gisappl.saskatchewan.ca/Html5Ext/index.html?viewer=saskinteractive
Saskatchewan Upgraded Road Network (data) – contains all components of the National Road Network (NRN) in Saskatchewan along with railway crossings and private entrances in rural area https://www.isc.ca/MapsandPhotos/GISData/Pages/SaskatchewanUpgradedRoadNetwork%28SURN%29.aspx
Soil Survey Compilations (data)- Seamless coverage for the agricultural areas of Saskatchewan at 1:100,000 scale http://sis.agr.gc.ca/cansis/nsdb/dss/v3/index.html
Saskatchewan Geological Survey (data and maps) – They have various maps and data on the economic and general geology of Saskatchewan https://www.saskatchewan.ca/business/agriculture-natural-resources-and-industry/mineral-exploration-and-mining/saskatchewan-geological-survey
Regina, Saskatchewan (data and maps) – http://open.regina.ca
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (data and maps) – http://opendata-saskatoon.cloudapp.net
City of Saskatoon iMap (mapping application) – contains various layers including zoning, schools, aerial photos, traffic and more http://rpbackapps2.saskatoon.ca/lapp/Geocortex/Essentials/GeocortexAnon/COSSV/Viewer.html?Viewer=iMap_GeneralVW
Note: Some other sources, although not free include … the Information Services Corporation provides Saskatchewan related cadastral data, administrative boundaries, custom mapping, satellite imagery and aerial photography http://www.isc.ca/MapsandPhotos/GISData/Pages/default.aspx
If you are looking for imagery then you may also want to contact he Saskatchewan Geospatial Imagery Collaborative (SGIC), a partnership of organizations sharing knowledge and costs relating to acquisition and use of satellite and aerial imagery for mutual and public benefit. SGIC provides free public viewing access to its basic imagery sets through a Public Web Mapping Client and an OGC-Standard Web Map Service (WMS and WMTS). https://www.flysask2.ca/
Yukon Data
GeoYukon – users can search, display and download the government’s authoritative and most recent spatial data.View, query and download the spatial data and its related metadata. http://mapservices.gov.yk.ca/GeoYukon/ You can use the map viewer with download options or download geospatial data directly with this link ftp://ftp.geomaticsyukon.ca/GeoYukon
- Geomatics Yukon http://www.geomaticsyukon.ca/
- SkyLine Air Photo Locator – http://www.emr.gov.yk.ca/library/skyline.html
Whitehorse, Yukon (Open Data Portal) – http://data.whitehorse.ca
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GeoBC should definitely make this list, it’s the major hub for BC geospatial data, which includes the underlying Land and Resource Data Warehouse.
http://geobc.gov.bc.ca/
Great site, a lot of great information here – thanks!
I am impressed with all the Geomatics information posted here, my friend. The color of the layout is also cool and effortless on the eyes. Would love more sites like this from others.
Will definitely needr Vancouver area data
I agree that GeoBC should be on the list as well. Keep on updating this blog by the way.
I really enjoy what I am seeing so far.
Acknowledge that you learn just as much, if not more, from your failures as you do from your successes.
Another data portal to add to your list:
Government of Northwest Territories (GNWT) Spatial Data Warehouse – Geospatial Portal
http://maps.gnwtgeomatics.nt.ca/portal/index.jsp
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Thanks so much for this compilation of data sources! As a researcher in the US doing large scale mapping and modeling that crosses political borders, I’m often searching for Canadian data and am unfamiliar with the many resources out there.
Does anyone know of GIS data that includes the coordinates of Canadian border crossings?
Thanks in advance for the help.
Looking for GIS Data (Wells, Roads, Oil and Gas, etc etc) for the Northwest Territories. I was able to find what I needed for BC (OGCBC) and the Yukon (Geomatics Yukon) but nothing for the NWT. Any suggestions?
Sorry for the delayed response, just noticed your question in the comments que. I dont have a lot of information about data in the Northwest Territories but I would start with the NWT Centre for Geomatics http://geomatics.gov.nt.ca
Visit DataBC – Geographic Serivces for BC’s Geographic data
let me know if you ever get data for Ottawa
Try http://app06.ottawa.ca/en/city_hall/statisticsdata/opendata/info/index.htm
and http://blog.opendataottawa.ca/
If you’re looking for Quebec data go to: http://www.donnees.gouv.qc.ca/?node=/accueil
C’est tous en français so you’ll have to look up the terms in order to search. A good resource is Termium: http://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/site/termium.php?lang=eng&cont=001
What a fantastic resource!
Through a link on this page I determined that the sink holes in my family’s yard in Mississauga are from buried apple orchard stumps from the 1950’s! Thanks aerial photo repository and thanks Ted for the links!
Great resource! The second link for the City of Kitchener is broken. Thanks.
thanks for letting us know – link has now been fixed
Hi,
Great site.
I am looking for latest data for Canadian road network with RANK attributed. The latest I can find is the 2011 dataset for Stats Canada. There is a 2014 dataset too but only Class is attributed, not Rank. I really don’t want to do a Spatial Join for a dataset that large…
Thanks.
This Canadian Hydrographic Service website has Canadian bathymetry at 500 metre resolution. This is available as numerous tiles in BAG format.
There is also a highly-detailed high water polyline coastline.
There is also some classified sea floor data based upon historic physical samples of the sea floor, of undetermined quality.