GEO News

Find articles and publications about data and activities across Canada’s geospatial community.

Urban Development Use Case

Learn about and download time-enabled data created using Artificial Intelligence (AI) and explore the results of a change detection analysis in Québec City.

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Flood Mapping in Your Province or Territory

Provinces and territories are responsible for undertaking flood mapping and addressing flood hazards. Find flood mapping resources specific to your province or territory.

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GeoBase Initiative

The GeoBase initiative provides access to, national geospatial foundational data for Canada’s land, water, and infrastructure.

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New LiDAR Point Clouds Product

Canada as you’ve never seen it before! This new dataset contains all LiDAR point cloud datasets acquired so far by Natural Resources Canada, covering an area close to 60,000 km2.

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Floods

Discover key geospatial data and information used to actively monitor spring ice break-up and flooding and provide critical, near real-time information to improve authorities’ situational awareness and keep Canadians safe.

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Atlas of Canada – The World

Find our newly release World Map! The World is a general reference political map focused on the names and international boundaries of sovereign and non-sovereign countries. The information is portrayed using the Winkel II projection at a scale of 1:29,000,000.

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Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19)

When the COVID-19 pandemic emerged in Canada, the Canadian geospatial community mobilized, leveraging data to help monitor the virus’s spread, develop containment strategies, and assess the status of Canada’s health care system capacity.

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Recognizing Women with Canadian Place Names

Place names have an important role in recognizing, preserving and strengthening history and culture. This interactive map showcases locations across Canada named after women.

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