Gazetteer for British Columbia

The Gazetteer of British Columbia is a listing of all official geographical names in the province, extracted daily from the BC Geographical Names Information Service (BCGNIS), the master database of B.C. place names. 40,500+ names are in the Gazetteer of British Columbia (to January 2013).

Two formats are available:

BC Gazetteer.csv is a self-extracting Comma Separated Values file that opens as a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. The file contains 40,500+ rows with the following values for each row: Official Name; Feature Type; Feature Type Code; Mapsheet; Datum; Latitude; Longitude. Size = 3.0 MB

BC Gazetteer.shp is a (compressed) standard ESRI point shapefile in decimal degrees. The file contains 40,500+ points with an accompanying attribute table containing data for each point: Official Name; Feature Type; Feature Type Code; Mapsheet; Datum; Latitude; Longitude. WinZip Size = 2.5 MB

Date (Publication) Date (Publication): 2016-06-22

Cited responsible party

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
GeoBC		geobcinfo@gov.bc geobcinfo@gov.bc.ca	Owner Owner

Presentation form Presentation form: Digital document

Digital document

Status Status: On going

On going

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
GeoBC		geobcinfo@gov.bc geobcinfo@gov.bc.ca	Custodian Custodian

Maintenance and update frequency Maintenance and update frequency: Continual

Continual

Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords v15.9

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DFO Areas

North Pacific Ocean
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Access constraints Access constraints: Intellectual property rights

Intellectual property rights

Use constraints Use constraints: Intellectual property rights

Intellectual property rights

Spatial representation type Spatial representation type: Vector

Vector

Language: English

Character set Character set: UTF8

UTF8

Topic category Topic category

Geoscientific information

Geoscientific information

Description: Offiicial locations in British Columbia

Begin date: 1980
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CSV	unknown

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Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
GeoBC		geobcinfo@gov.bc geobcinfo@gov.bc.ca	Point of contact Point of contact

Fees: Free

Ordering instructions: https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/d92224ee-03ef-4904-be53-b677d8e01ac4

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download	https://soggy2.zoology.ubc.ca/geonetwork/srv/api/records/1088f383-7219-42a9-acf6-26445e269ebc/attachments/BC_GAZETTEER_21JAN2016.zip	BC_GAZETTEER_21JAN2016.zip
WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download	https://soggy2.zoology.ubc.ca/geonetwork/srv/api/records/1088f383-7219-42a9-acf6-26445e269ebc/attachments/FEATURE%20CODES.pdf	FEATURE CODES.pdf FEATURE CODES.pdf
WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download	https://soggy2.zoology.ubc.ca/geonetwork/srv/api/records/1088f383-7219-42a9-acf6-26445e269ebc/attachments/FEATURE%20DEFINITIONS.pdf	FEATURE DEFINITIONS.pdf FEATURE DEFINITIONS.pdf
FTP	ftp://ftp.geobc.gov.bc.ca/sections/outgoing/bmgs/Gazetteer/BC GAZETTEER Spreadsheets/	CSV or XLSX
OGC:WMS-1.3.0-http-get-map	https://soggy2.zoology.ubc.ca/geoserver/wms	dfo:bc_gazetteer_21jan2016

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
FTP	ftp://ftp.geobc.gov.bc.ca/sections/outgoing/bmgs/Gazetteer/BC%20GAZETTEER%20Spatial%20Files-zipped/	ESRI Shapefile

Metadata

File identifier File identifier: 1088f383-7219-42a9-acf6-26445e269ebc XML

Metadata language: eng

Character set Character set: UTF8

UTF8

Hierarchy level Hierarchy level: Dataset

Dataset

Date stamp Date stamp: 2023-12-19T23:14:13.095Z

Metadata standard name: North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003 - Geographic information - Metadata

Metadata standard version: NAP - CAN/CGSB-171.100-2009

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
GeoBC		geobcinfo@gov.bc geobcinfo@gov.bc.ca	Author Author

Other language

Language	Character encoding
French French	UTF8 UTF8
English English	UTF8 UTF8

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