Canada Water Bodies represents the major fresh water bodies within Canada including lakes/lac, large rivers/fleuve, reservoirs, and bays/baie. The boundaries are based on Statistics Canada data.
Purpose
Canada Water Bodies provides the larger water bodies of Canada with detail appropriate for national, regional, and local levels.
Supplemental Information
Largest scale when displaying the data: 1:100,000.
Temporal Extent
Currentness Reference
publication date
Time Instant
2006
Bounding Box
West
-141.001300
East
-52.670264
North
78.946164
South
41.386664
Theme Keyword
polygon
water
lake/lac
river/fleuve
reservoir
bay/baie
Theme Keyword Thesaurus
None
Theme Keyword
inlandWaters
Theme Keyword Thesaurus
ISO 19115 Topic Categories
Place Keyword
Canada
Place Keyword Thesaurus
None
Temporal Keyword
2002
1996
Temporal Keyword Thesaurus
None
Access Restrictions
For current Columbia affiliates only.
Use Restrictions
For educational, non-commercial use only.
Status
Complete
Maintenance and Update Frequency
Annually
Point of Contact
Contact Organization
ESRI
Delivery Point
380 New York Street
City
Redlands
State
California
Postal Code
92373-8100
Country
USA
Contact Telephone
909-793-2853
Contact Facsimile Telephone
909-793-5953
Contact Electronic Mail Address
info@esri.com
Hours of Service
7:00 a.m.5:30 p.m. Pacific time, MondayFriday
Credit
Statistics Canada
Native Data Set Environment
Microsoft Windows 2000 Version 5.0 (Build 2195) Service Pack 3; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.0.0.532
Data Quality Information
Logical Consistency Report
The shapefile is converted to SDC (Smart Data Compression) format using either ESRI SDC Data Development Kit Professional 2 (DDKP2) or tools in ArcGIS. The SDC data set is then loaded into ArcSDE to verify and validate the geometry.
Completeness Report
After processing, the data set is checked for drawing display and number of records and file sizes compared with source materials.
Horizontal Positional Accuracy Report
The scales of the data sources range from 1:50,000 to 1:2,000,000. The positional accuracy varies as well and is unknown.
Lineage
Source
Originator
DMTI Spatial Inc.
Publication Date
200209
Title
Canadian Data Bundle?Data sets from Statistics Canada with source scales of 1:50,000 to 1:2,000,000.
Edition
2002
Geospatial Data Presentation Form
vector digital data
Series Information
Series Name
Canadian Data Bundle
Issue Identification
2002
Publication Information
Publication Place
Markham, Ontario, Canada
Publisher
DMTI Spatial Inc.
Other Citation Details
This data set is based data from Statistics Canada.
Source Scale Denominator
50000?2000000
Type of Source Media
CD?ROM
Source Temporal Extent
Time Period Information
Multiple Dates/Times
Single Date/Time
Calendar Date
200209
Single Date/Time
Calendar Date
1996
Source Currentness Reference
publication date
Contribution
Attribute and geospatial data
Spatial Data Organization Information
Direct Spatial Reference Method
Vector
Point and Vector Object Information
SDTS Terms Description
SDTS Point and Vector Object Type
G-polygon
Point and Vector Object Count
4179
Spatial Reference Information
Horizontal Coordinate System Definition
Geographic
Latitude Resolution
0.000009
Longitude Resolution
0.000009
Geographic Coordinate Units
Decimal degrees
Geodetic Model
Horizontal Datum Name
North American Datum of 1983
Ellipsoid Name
Geodetic Reference System 80
Semi-major Axis
6378137.000000
Denominator of Flattening Ratio
298.257222
Entity and Attribute Information
Entity Type
Entity Type Label
water
Entity Type Definition
The polygons represent the water bodies for Canada including lakes/lac, large rivers/fleuve, reservoirs, and bays/baie.
Entity Type Definition Source
DMTI Spatial Inc.
Attributes
ObjectID
Internal feature number. (Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.)
Definition Source
ESRI
NAME
The water feature name. (Names for the features.)
Definition Source
DMTI Spatial Inc.
SQKM
The area of the water feature in square kilometers. (Calculated areas for the features.)
Definition Source
ESRI
Shape
Feature geometry. (Coordinates defining the features.)
Definition Source
ESRI
Distribution Information
Format Name
SDC
Distributor
ESRI; ESRI International Distributors
Name
Metadata Reference Information
Metadata Date
20070405
Metadata Contact
Contact Information
Contact Organization Primary
Contact Organization
Research Data Services (RDS), Columbia University Libraries
Contact Person
GIS/Metadata Librarian
Contact Address
Address
420 W. 118th St. 215 IAB, MC 3301
City
New York
State or Province
NY
Postal Code
10027
Country
USA
Contact Voice Telephone
(212) 854-6012
Contact Electronic Mail Address
data@library.columbia.edu
Hours of Service
7:00 a.m.5:30 p.m. Pacific time, MondayFriday
Metadata Standard Name
FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata
