Canada Basemap Series
Canada Center for Mapping and Earth Observation (CCMEO)'s basemap is essential in supporting the Government of Canada’s priorities in areas such as open government, climate change mitigation, Indigenous reconciliation, emergency management, disaster preparedness and response, sustainable natural resource management, infrastructure planning, economy/labour and more. It reinforces CCMEO’s commitment to improving the accessibility, interoperability and integration of geospatial data across Canada.
CCMEO currently offers multiple basemap types which include the following found in this series:
- Transportation basemap (CBMT) in raster tile format
- Transportation basemap (CBMT) in vector tile format EPSG: 3857 (WGS84 Pseudo-Mercator)
- Transportation basemap (CBMT) in vector tile format EPSG: 3978 (NAD83 Canada Atlas Lambert)
- Digital Elevation Model (DEM) - hillshade basemap (CBME)
- Simple grey basemap
- Provinces/Territories basemap
- Grids (Lat/Long, NTS and UTM) basemap
Metadata
Date Created
2012-01-01
Date Published
2012-01-01
Temporal Coverage
2012-11-01 - Present
Access in last 30 days
48
All time access
1,451
Source(s) and Citation
Government of Canada;Natural Resources Canada;Strategic Policy and Innovation Sector, Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation, GeoDiscovery. (2012-01-01). Canada Basemap Series.
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Related keywords
basemap, geomatics, transport, provinces, road maps, geographical maps, digital elevation data, maps
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