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Canada Lands Digital Cadastral Data & Mapping Applications

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Download Canada Lands Digital Cadastral Data

Canada Lands digital cadastral data is used to define internal and external boundaries of Canada Lands. Canada Lands are any federal Crown lands belonging to the Crown, that are situated in Yukon, the Northwest Territories, Nunavut or in any National Park or Indian Reserve, as defined by the Indian Act. For more specific info about check out Canada Lands see Surveys, Parcel and Tenure on Canada Lands by Dr. Brian Ballantyne.

Digital cadastral data of Canada Lands depicting the internal and external boundaries is managed by Natural Resources Canada, and is made available for public use in a variety of formats. Several pre-made mapping products related to Canada Lands are available, a Canada Lands Google Earth file, and Canada Lands digital cadastral data in CAD or GIS formats. Pre-made maps are provided in PDF format at National and regional scales.

Links to download Canada Lands digital cadastral datasets:

Canada Lands Mapping Applications

The Canada Lands overlay in Google Earth KMZ format, is a handy file providing information for boundaries and parcels of National Parks, Indian Reserves, National Parks and the territories and links to digital cadastral datasets and survey plans and related maps. The KMZ file is dynamic so only needs to be downloaded once, and automatically updates via the internet.

The Canada Lands Survey System online map browser is another application by Natural Resources Canada created to help locate digital cadastral datasets and survey plans of Canada Lands. The search tools included are great for finding survey plans and related maps related to internal and external boundaries of Canada Lands.

 

Interactive Historical Maps of Fredericton, New Brunswick

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historical maps of Fredericton - Alexander Hubly - 1882

Interactive Historical Maps of Fredericton

A collection of historical maps and plans  of Fredericton, New Brunswick are freely available to the general public.They have been georeferenced so that they can be visualized with various mapping applications, includes metadata and tools for searching have been incorporated.

The Provincial Archives and UNB maintain a rich collection of historical maps, plans and other survey information for New Brunswick dating back to the early 1800s. This resource, as valuable as it can be, often is limited to those that are able to go to these locations. due to the information being contained in the form of microfiche and paper formats (just like most traditional archive data sets found in most places usually are). However, a series of this information for  the city of Fredericton has been scanned and now already available in digital format.

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A team from UNB have taken things further and applied some of the digital versions with geospatial web technology providing a valuable interactive resource of historical information that anyone with web access can use. Their system uses common online free mapping systems like Google maps or Bing maps. A detailed overview of the project was covered in Gematica (Volume 67, Number 3), a professional geomatics journal published by the CIG.

The application offers limited tools making it easy for anyone to use, all  the user needs to do is simply scroll down and select the historic map or plan that they would like to view and then click the visualize button.  A new window will open up with that historic information superimposed on top of a modern online map (with the option to choose either Google or Bing maps).There is a transparency slider that allows the user to adjust the amount of current information that they would like to be visible and the mouse is used to scroll around and zoom into various locations.

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Metadata buttons exist to for each data set providing detailed information as well as the option to download a KML version of the map or plan to use with Google Earth. Unlike online web maps, Google Earth allows users to change the orientation of the map, incorporate an exaggerated terrain and add more data layers. An OGC WMS Server link is also provided (http://gaia.gge.unb.ca:8080/geoserver/wms) for those that are interested in using the historic data with their desktop GIS applications like ArcGIS.

To browse these historic maps and plans of Fredericton, New Brunswick see http://gaia.gge.unb.ca/wsp/maps/index.html

Check out  other Canadian Historical  Data sets that we have discovered and if you know of some that we have missed then let us know so we can add them to our resource lists.

 

 

The future of GIS with Esri’s ArcGIS Online

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The future of GIS with Esri’s ArcGIS Online

The future of GIS with Esri's ArcGIS Online

Jack Dangermond, Co-founder of mapping software maker, Esri, discusses the future of GIS, it’s massive potential of GIS and Esri’s new ArcGIS Online cloud-based system. GIS WebTech’s mapping applications leverage ArcGIS Online, allowing our clients access to unrivaled GIS file sharing and collaboration in the cloud.

Submit an Online Web Mapping Site

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Online Web mapping involves designing, implementing, generating and delivering maps to end users via the Internet through common web browsers, allowing people to use maps interactively with out needing high end software. Web GIS is very similar to web mapping but provides analysis, data processing, publishing and other GIS abilities. Often these two terms are used synonymously, even if they are not exactly the same product. None the less both have been increasing exposure over the past few years, a major accomplishment for the GIS industry and since Web mapping can not exist without GIS, (and for simplicity) we have combined these all into one category here on the site.

internet with globe - web mappingOur web mapping section examines the various online web mapping and web GIS applications that have been created all across Canada.

Some of ones that we have covered are ones that we use on a regular basis, some that we stumbled across and some have been submitted to us by others. So as you browse through the our Web mapping section category you will find that are a wide array of online mapping applications with Canadian content being offered via the internet from Nova Scotia to British Columbia.

Some notable one that has been covered so far includes:

 Plus many more that you can find here

Our aim is to continue covering all the great Online Web mapping in Canada so we would love for others to submit online web mapping applications that either they have created themselves or ones that they are aware of but we have yet to cover on our site. Simply use the form below …