GNWT_Basemaps_GNWT_Simplified_Basemap

Northern Ocean Water (2)

Landmass 5M - 1:3M and above scale (5)

The boundary line data was compiled from The North American Atlas 1:10,000,000 data. Attribute and geometry edits were made to the boundary line data to coordinate with the Canadian Geopolitical Boundaries data from the Canada Centre for Cadastral Management of Natural Resources Canada. The boundary lines were processed with the boundary points using an ETL (extract, transform and load) routine to output the boundary polygons, landmass polygons and ocean polygon.The Atlas of Canada National Scale Data 1:5,000,000 Series consists of boundary, coast, island, place name, railway, river, road, road ferry and waterbody data sets that were compiled to be used for atlas medium scale (1:5,000,000 to 1:15,000,000) mapping. These data sets have been integrated so that their relative positions are cartographically correct. Any data outside of Canada included in the data sets is strictly to complete the context of the data.

Transportation Line - 0-1:10k scale (7)

Rivers - 0-1:60k scale (11)

Rivers - 1:60k-1:300k scale (13)

Lakes 1M - 1:300k-1:3M scale (16)

Rivers - 1:5M-1:10M scale (18)

Rivers - 1:3M-1:5M scale (20)

Canada Territorial Limits - 0-1:1M scale (23)

The boundary line data was compiled from the Atlas of Canada 1,000,000 National Frameworks Data, Administrative Boundaries data. Attribute and geometry edits were made to the boundary line data to coordinate with the Canadian Geopolitical Boundaries data from the Canada Centre for Cadastral Management of Natural Resources Canada. The boundary lines were processed with the boundary points using an ETL (extract, transform and load) routine to output the boundary polygons, landmass polygons and ocean polygon.The Atlas of Canada National Scale Data 1:1,000,000 Series consists of boundary, coast, island, place name, railway, river, road, road ferry and waterbody data sets that were compiled to be used for atlas large scale (1:1,000,000 to 1:4,000,000) mapping. These data sets have been integrated so that their relative positions are cartographically correct. Any data outside of Canada included in the data sets is strictly to complete the context of the data.

Community - 0-1:300k scale (25)

Imperial Measured Contours (28)

CanVec+ digital topographical dataset of NWT, Nunavut and Yukon with northern parts of Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba and Saskatchewan (to the 59th parallel north). CanVec+ is a digital cartographical reference product produced by Natural Resources Canada. CanVec+ originates from the best available data sources covering Canadian territory and offers quality topographical information in vector format that comply with international geomatics standards. CanVec+ is a multi-source product coming mainly from the National Topographic Data Base (NTDB), the GeoBase initiative and the data update using Landsat 7 or Spot imagery coverage. CanVec+ product contains more than 90 topographical entities thematically organized into 11 distribution themes: Administrative Boundaries, Buildings and Structures, Energy, Hydrography, Industrial and Commercial Areas, Places of Interest, Relief and Landforms, Toponymy, Transportation, Vegetation and Water Saturated Soils.CanVec+ aims to standardized and actualized representation of topographical phenomenon for the entire Canadian territory. Various topographical entities coming mainly from the NTDB are not up to date. These entities are included in CanVec+ product only to answer topographical reference needs. CanVec+ can be used to produce thematic maps, for web mapping as well as GIS applications. CanVec+ many attributes allow for extensive spatial analysis.The CanVec+ product will be maintained in partnership with the organizations providing the data. CanVec+ is scheduled to be published every two months. The CanVec+ product is free and is distributed via GeoGratis portal (www.GeoGratis.gc.ca) in output file formats GML (Geography Markup Language), SHAPE (ESRI™) and File Geodatabase (ESRI™).There are supplemental, downloadable PDFs and Excel tables that provide further comprehensible metadata on all the CanVec+ data here: ftp://ftp2.cits.rncan.gc.ca/pub/canvec+/doc/.

Major Roads - 1:100k-1:5M scale (31)

The second edition (2.0) of the National Road Network Standards available via GeoBase will be gradually populated to introduce address information to the 1 100 000 kilometres of road network data. The NRN will contain the representation of a continuous accurate centerline for all non-restricted use roads in Canada (5 metres or more in width, drivable and no barriers denying access) to which will be added a set of basic attributes, street name, place name and block face address ranges. The work involved in developing the second edition of the NRN Standards began in 2003 and took two years to complete. The consultation process was accomplished with one-on-one meetings with closest to source providers as well as through national workshops that involved federal, provincial, territorial and municipal stakeholders alike.In 2005, the second edition of the NRN model was adopted by the Inter Agency Committee on Geomatics (IACG) members and the Canadian Council on Geomatics (CCOG) members. The new NRN model and content has been defined through national consensus. The NRN contains a standardized and homogeneous data representation. Each geometric feature has an assigned National Identifier (NID). The NID is populated with a universally unique identifier (UUID). The NID's are needed for the management of the data over time and will also be used to identify what changes have occurred between two distributed versions.New edition 2.0 NRN Partnership agreements are currently being jointly negotiated by Natural Resources Canada and Statistics Canada to secure 'closest to source' maintenance principles of GeoBase. It is important to note that the GeoConnections program is providing funding opportunities to participating provinces, territories and lead federal agencies maintaining NRN data.More medata is available in the NRN pdf located here: http://ftp2.cits.rncan.gc.ca/pub/geobase/official/nrn_rrn/doc/NRN.pdf

Road - 1:10k-1:100k scale (33)

Winter Roads - 1:100k-1:1M scale (35)

Runways - 0-1:100k scale (37)

CanVec+ digital topographical dataset of NWT, Nunavut and Yukon with northern parts of Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba and Saskatchewan (to the 59th parallel north).CanVec+ is a digital cartographical reference product produced by Natural Resources Canada. CanVec+ originates from the best available data sources covering Canadian territory and offers quality topographical information in vector format that comply with international geomatics standards.CanVec+ is a multi-source product coming mainly from the National Topographic Data Base (NTDB), the GeoBase initiative and the data update using Landsat 7 or Spot imagery coverage. CanVec+ product contains more than 90 topographical entities thematically organized into 11 distribution themes: Administrative Boundaries, Buildings and Structures, Energy, Hydrography, Industrial and Commercial Areas, Places of Interest, Relief and Landforms, Toponymy, Transportation, Vegetation and Water Saturated Soils.CanVec+ aims to standardized and actualized representation of topographical phenomenon for the entire Canadian territory. Various topographical entities coming mainly from the NTDB are not up to date. These entities are included in CanVec+ product only to answer topographical reference needs. CanVec+ can be used to produce thematic maps, for web mapping as well as GIS applications. CanVec+ many attributes allow for extensive spatial analysis.The CanVec+ product will be maintained in partnership with the organizations providing the data.CanVec+ is scheduled to be published every two months. The CanVec+ product is free and is distributed via GeoGratis portal (www.GeoGratis.gc.ca) in output file formats GML (Geography Markup Language), SHAPE (ESRI™) and File Geodatabase (ESRI™).There are supplemental, downloadable PDFs and Excel tables that provide further comprehensible metadata on all the CanVec+ data here: ftp://ftp2.cits.rncan.gc.ca/pub/canvec+/doc/.

Trails - 0-1:60k scale (39)

Default (43)

NWT Communities - 1:100k-1:5M scale (45)

Default (48)