GIS & Spatial Data: Alberta Data

Features include over 60 layers of topographic information separated into 5 major themes (Access, Hydrography, Geo Admin, Contours, ATS).

Provincial topographic data. 1:20 000 scale.

Provincial coverage of legal sub division (LSD), quarter section, section, each with statutory road allowances, and township polygons, derived from ATS V4.1 coordinates.

The Municipal Boundary product offers provincial coverage of Municipal boundary line work, featuring Counties, MD’s, Special Areas, Improvement Districts, Cities, Towns, Villages, Summer Villages and Hamlets.

The file is kept current integrating Government of Alberta Municipal Order in Council changes, and is maintained in-sync with the cadastral base.

Cadastral data for all of Alberta. 1:20 000 scale.

Title data for many Alberta municipalities

Alberta Crown Vegetation Inventory files for 92 Township areas in south west Alberta.

Topographic base maps. 1:20 000 scale. Hydrography and Transportation feature classes captured from 1:60 000 image data from various time periods; Produced in the early 1980s according to AltaLis.

FortisAlberta delivers safe and reliable electricity to more than half a million customers in 200 communities across Alberta. As a wire service (electricity distribution) provider, FortisAlberts is also responsible to build, maintain and upgrade a vast network of facilities throughout Alberta; which includes over 1 million power poles, over 117,000 kilometers of primary and secondary lines, and an array of street and yard lights within their service territory.

Digital Integrated Dispositions (DIDs) is an accurate, complete and timely geospatial mapping inventory that maintains surface activity extents for 35 types of dispositions (i.e. leases & permits) on Alberta’s Crown Land. Examples include: LOC, MSL, EZE, PLA, GRP, etc.

Disposition mapping is used for regulatory, permitting and planning applications, by all industry, public and private sector interests that are active on public lands.

Layers showing the location and nature of man-made structures whose geographical location is of importance to the business activities of the department. Examples include power generating stations, oil and gas plants, and gravel and sand pits.

The location and nature of features that can be used to gain vehicular access to land and resources and to dispositions related to surface activities.