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GEO.ca Canada’s Federal Geospatial Portal

GEO.ca – Canadian Federal Geospatial Portal

GEO.ca - Canadian Federal Geospatial Portal, is quickly becoming a cornerstone of Canada’s open geospatial ecosystem, offering an accessible entry point to more than 100,000 federal datasets and applications. It stands as a cornerstone of Canada’s geospatial data infrastructure, offering unparalleled access to authoritative, open, and interoperable spatial data. Its advanced search and visualization tools, commitment to open data and accessibility, and collaborative governance model position it as a leader among national geospatial portals. Designed for everyone, from GIS professionals to anyone interested in GIS, cartography, and public policy, GEO.ca provides the data, tools, and community needed to drive innovation, inform decision-making, and foster collaboration across sectors. For anyone working with location‑based information in Canada, GEO.ca is a resource worth exploring.
Indigenous Place Names in Canada map

Indigenous Place Names in Canada Map

The map depicts Indigenous Place Names in Canada, shared by several First Nations, Métis, and Inuit communities. A high resolution digital version is provided that may be downloaded for free and printed for personal or educational uses.
Canadian Geospatial Data Extraction Tool - Define your geographic area

Canadian Geospatial Data Extraction Tool

The Canadian Geospatial Data Extraction tool is a handy resource that allows users to extract seamless geospatial open data based on specific user-defined geographic area and data options
HRDEM coverage map as of August 2019

Canadian Arctic High Resolution Digital Elevation Model

Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) has recently produced a new release of the High Resolution Digital Elevation Model (HRDEM) product for the entire Canadian Arctic and made it available to download from the Open Government Portal. It allows ...
Automatically Extracted Buildings

LiDAR Extracted Building Footprints Open Data

Natural Resources Canada recently added a new data layer to the Federal Government Open Data portal to help with emergency management (particularly for flood and earthquake risk analysis).
Map of the North Circumpolar Region

Map of the North Circumpolar Region

To help showcase Canada’s dynamic Arctic landscape, Natural Resources Canada released an updated version of the North Circumpolar Region Map. This unique bilingual map map is viewed from a different angle then most maps, using the azimuthal equidistant projection with the geographic North Pole serving as the central point of the map. We encourage all Canadians to take advantage of this free high resolution map available for download from NRCAN and help promote a unique perspective of our prodigious nation.
Canadian Geodetic Vertical Datum

New Canadian Geodetic Vertical Datum

NRCan has recently made a new Canadian Geodetic Vertical Datum available: CGVD2013, which is now the new reference standard for Canadian reference heights. This new height reference system replaces the Canadian Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1928 (CGVD28), which was adopted officially by an Order in Council in 1935 and has been used by organizations and individuals coast to coast for the past few decades. CGG2013 can be downloaded ...
Converting between UTM, MTM and LAT/LONG

Converting between UTM, MTM and LAT/LONG

If you ever find yourself in need of quickly getting values converted from Geographic to UTM / MTM (Modified Traverse Mercator) or UTM / MTM to Geographic then here is a a free online converter tool that we use provided by Canadian Spatial Reference System.
Converting between UTM, MTM and LAT/LONG

New and Improved GeoGratis Website

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Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) has recently launched a new update to the already innovative GeoGratis website. GeoGratis is a web portal that provides access to a wide collection of Canadian geospatial data, maps, images, and publications at no cost and without restrictions. All distributed data accessed via GeoGratis comes with an Unrestricted Use Licence Agreement that grants users a non-exclusive, royalty-free right and licence to exercise all intellectual property rights in the data including the right to use, incorporate, sub-license, modify, further develop, and distribute the data. Improvements to the new site made go much deeper then just minor cosmetic changes; the site is now easier to use and allows access to better search tools where one can now view and download all available geospatial data sets consolidated into the same web site. The new Platform also now better supports developers that want to create unique and innovative mapping applications with Canadian data, images and documents using one of the three available GeoGratis Application Programming Interfaces (API’s).