Découpage administratif 50% open

Canada

What data is expected?

(French) Concerne les données du découpage administratif (contours géographique des différents niveaux administratifs : région, département, commune)

  • (French) Découpage de premier niveau (régional)
  • Délimitation de 2e niveau
  • Coordonnées (longitude, latitude)
  • Nom du polygone (département, région, ville)
  • Solides totaux dissous (Les SDT, ou solides dissous totaux, sont la francisation du TDS anglais. Le total de matières solides dissoutes estime le résidu total qui reste après évaporation d'un échantillon d'eau qui a été filtré afin d'enlever les matières solides en suspension de plus de 1 mm de grosseur.)
  • Données par type de source d'eau
  • Disponibilité pour le territoire national

How open is the data?

All answers

Question Answer Comment
Openly licenced No
In an open and machine-readable format SHP, WFS, XML
Downloadable at once No
Up-to-date No
Publicly available Yes
Available free of charge Yes
findable 3
findable_steps Environment Canada Search
Collected by government Yes
usability 1
collector_name Environment Canada
characteristics Fecal coliform, Arsenic, Fluoride levels, Nitrates, Total Dissolved Solids, Data per water source, Available for entire country
location https://ec.gc.ca/eaudouce-freshwater/default.asp?lang=En - Environment Canada Fresh Water Quality Monitoring & Surveillance
This is a complicated set of data that does not lend itself well to the nature of the questions asked here. Water quality measures and monitoring and surveillance is a multi-jurisdictional responsibility in Canada as the number of fresh water bodies is the highest in the world and these are not all in populated areas. The data that are assessed are collected for specific sites which are part of the EC Fresh Water Monitoring network. Canada is an incredibly large country with some of the greatest numbers of water sources in the world. It is not possible to have all the water monitored. Therefore sites are monitored where populations and campers have access to. In addition, the jurisdiction for water monitoring is not at the federal level as inland waters are the responsibility of the provinces and the territories and cities. Read here https://ec.gc.ca/eaudouce-freshwater/default.asp?lang=En&n=50947E1B-1 and see the variables list here for one particular site https://aquatic.pyr.ec.gc.ca/webdataonlinenational/en/Measurements/ChooseVariables/Sites/YT08AB0010/Projects/PYLTM/Regions/0 Also see https://www.ec.gc.ca/eaudouce-freshwater/default.asp?lang=En&n=EFDA57C6-1 Different monitoring stations update at different rates. See here https://ec.gc.ca/eaudouce-freshwater/default.asp?lang=En&n=50947E1B-1 and see here https://www.ec.gc.ca/eaudouce-freshwater/default.asp?lang=En&n=EFDA57C6-1 The data must be downloaded by station. This is a massive and complicated database and it does not make sense to download all at once unless one is a scientists and has the database resources to do so. Read here https://ec.gc.ca/eaudouce-freshwater/default.asp?lang=En&n=50947E1B-1 also see https://www.ec.gc.ca/eaudouce-freshwater/default.asp?lang=En&n=EFDA57C6-1 The data is not openly licensed, because only non-commercial re-use allowed (https://ec.gc.ca/default.asp?lang=En&xml=5830C36B-1773-4E3E-AF8C-B21F54633E0A)

The original submission by Tracey P. Lauriault was correct. However, not all data is up-to-date, which is why this parameter was changed. Thank you very much, Tracey P. Lauriault, for contributing to the Global Open Data Index.

Meta data

Data location   https://ec.gc.ca/eaudouce-freshwater/default.asp?lang=En - Environment Canada Fresh Water Quality Monitoring & Surveillance
Data licence   Unknown
Data format   SHP, WFS, XML
Reviewer   Danny Lämmerhirt
Submitters   Danny Lämmerhirt
Last modified   Fri Apr 14 2017 10:08:57 GMT+0000 (UTC)