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
Simple
- Date (Publication)
- 2016-06-22
- Cited responsible party
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role GeoBC
geobcinfo@gov.bc geobcinfo@gov.bc.ca
Owner
- Presentation form
- Digital document
- Status
- On going
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role GeoBC
geobcinfo@gov.bc geobcinfo@gov.bc.ca
Custodian
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Continual
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Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords v15.9
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Earth Science
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Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus
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Thesauri
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DFO Areas
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North Pacific Ocean
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Freshwaters
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- Access constraints
- Intellectual property rights
- Use constraints
- Intellectual property rights
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Language
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English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Geoscientific information
- Description
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Offiicial locations in British Columbia
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- Begin date
- 1980 Before
- Distribution format
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Name Version CSV
unknown
Distributor
- Distributor contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role GeoBC
geobcinfo@gov.bc geobcinfo@gov.bc.ca
Point of contact
- Fees
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Free
- Ordering instructions
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https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/d92224ee-03ef-4904-be53-b677d8e01ac4
- OnLine resource
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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
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
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
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Protocol Linkage Name FTP
ftp://ftp.geobc.gov.bc.ca/sections/outgoing/bmgs/Gazetteer/BC%20GAZETTEER%20Spatial%20Files-zipped/ ESRI Shapefile
Metadata
- File identifier
- 1088f383-7219-42a9-acf6-26445e269ebc XML
- Metadata language
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eng
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2023-12-19T23:14:13.095Z
- Metadata standard name
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North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003 - Geographic information - Metadata
- Metadata standard version
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NAP - CAN/CGSB-171.100-2009
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role GeoBC
geobcinfo@gov.bc geobcinfo@gov.bc.ca
Author
- Other language
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Language Character encoding French UTF8 English UTF8
Overviews
Spatial extent
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