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Suggestions for Canadian (Metro Vancouver) Housing Open Data Sources
Metro Vancouver has an open data catalogue
http://www.metrovancouver.org/data
These geo datasets are available:
Frequent Transit Development Areas
Land Use
Metro 2040 Land Designation
Metro 2040 ...
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postal code boundaries for Yukon Territory, Canada
The location datasets page for Canada on OKFN's global open data index seems to contain a pretty comprehensive yet short review on the state of postcode data:
Canada Post is a Crown corporation of ...
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Where can I get a reasonably small geojson file for the boundaries of Canadian provinces?
there are many, but this one at 398 kb should probably work.
https://github.com/codeforamerica/click_that_hood/blob/master/public/data/canada.geojson
It's not "official", though. For ...
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Canadian and USA Administrative Boundary Data Service
Your best bet for up-to-date boundary files at the provincial/state and municipal/county level for the world is the Global Administrative Boundaries Project. Unless you're looking for a specific ...
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Suggestions for Canadian (Metro Vancouver) Housing Open Data Sources
Search Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation for Vancouver
CMHC Housing Market Information Portal
Search Open Canada for "Housing"
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Schools in Canada
If you are by any chances affiliated to a Canadian university you get free access to DMTI POI data that includes public schools and universities.
All of this is located in the Scholar GeoPortal ...
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List of Ontario road names
If there is no publicly available list, let's prepare it :). The best source will be OSM Data (http://download.geofabrik.de/north-america/canada.html) from where we will take a bit. In below example I'...
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Where can I download data on registered Canadian charities (form T3010) in bulk?
Open Data Canada portal should help
https://search.open.canada.ca/en/od/?sort=score%20desc&page=1&search_text=T3010
Alternatively, you could parse the data from List of charities search
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Does anyone know where I can find a list of geodetic benchmark locations for all of Canada?
I found my answer here using a survey plan search: http://clss.nrcan.gc.ca/clss/plan/search-recherche
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Canada, USA - fuel stations, grocery stores
If you are by any chances affiliated to a Canadian university you get free access to DMTI POI data that includes all that information for Canada. All of this is located in the Scholar GeoPortal ...
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Western Canada ShapeFiles (Meridian, Township, Section and Quarter)?
One of the best sources for Canadian Geospatial data is the Canadian government's Open Data Portal and the Canadian Census Boundary files.
After doing a quick search through the Census data, it ...
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Neighborhood data for Canada
Not comprehensive, but ESRI's open data hub has some Canadian neighborhood data.
Unfortunately, Zillow doesn't offer neighborhood data in Canada like in the US, and also Code for America's Click My '...
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Seeking source of curated/cleansed data for 2016 Canadian Census?
I've run into this problem as well and have opted not to use the aggregated data in some cases because of how badly it's formatted. If you have access through a Canadian university, I`d highly ...
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Nesting zones in Canada
North American Breeding Bird Survey is what you'll most likely find useful; BBS has two data options.
Migratory Bird Data Center has some more data too.
USFWS Migratory Bird Data Center
Breeding Bird ...
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Open/Public Data Sources For Land-Cover/Vegetation Data In The Provinces of British Columbia and Alberta, Canada?
Resources List
Land Cover Institute (Global)
North American Land Cover Data Links - Land Cover Institute
Geospatial Data: Land Cover & Land Use of Canada
Natural Resources Canada
Characterization ...
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Quebec Provincial Crown Lands
I don't know this dataset but I think it might be useful: Unités d'aménagement (UA)
L'unité d'aménagement (UA) est une unité territoriale de référence qui s'applique sur les territoires forestiers ...
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Energy usage in Canada
I think this table has the energy use by sector until 2013.
Scroll down to Energy use, final demand
The summation of the usage in mining and oil and gas extraction, manufacturing, forestry, ...
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Energy usage in Canada
You can find those takes of statistics in the Canada Yearbook from Statistics Canada. Unfortunately, the last year they published the year book is 2012, and for energy the data is only thru 2010.
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Seeking Water Quality Data for Lake Ontario that includes Dissolved Oxygen, Nitrogen, Phosphorus?
Here are some results for US data:
National Water Quality Monitoring (US)
EPA EnviroAtlas
Nitrogen and Phosphorus Pollution Data Downloads
National Lakes Assessment (US)
National Aquatic Resource ...
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