Hakai Place Names Service - Coastal British Columbia - Canada

The place names service is derived from the British Columbia Terrain Resource Information Management Program (TRIM) annotation layer, as well as from place name information from the Hakai Institute.

The place names service consists of 4 layers: -TRIM 1:20000 Annotation -TRIM 1:1250000 Annotation -TRIM 1:250000 Annotation -Hakai Place Names

The TRIM Annotation metadata is available here http://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/trim-text-annotation More information about the TRIM program is here: http://geobc.gov.bc.ca/base-mapping/atlas/trim/

The Hakai Places Layer has the following attributes: OBJNAM: Name of the feature Landmarks: Code used to classify objects for labelling scale dependencies OBJTYPE: Type of object OBJCLASS: Class of object LABGROUP: Label group category (unused)

Processing by: Will McInnes, Keith Holmes (Hakai Institute), and BC Base Annotations data

Access and Use

Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
Limitations: Appropriate credit must be given to Hakai Institute and the authors of the dataset.

Data and Resources

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Metadata Reference Date(s) January 19, 2022 (Publication)
January 19, 2022 (Revision)
Data Reference Date(s) November 18, 2015 (Publication)
Frequency of Update As Needed

Responsible Party 1
Name
Hakai Geospatial Technology Team
Affiliation
Hakai Institute
Email
data@hakai.org
Role
  • Custodian
  • Owner
  • Point of Contact
  • Processor
Responsible Party 2
Name
Will McInnes
Affiliation
Hakai Institute
Role
  • Point of Contact
  • Processor
Responsible Party 3
Affiliation
Hakai Institute
Email
data@hakai.org
Role
  • Distributor
  • Resource Provider
Responsible Party 4
Name
TRIM BC Base Annotations data
Affiliation
GEOBC TRIM Program
Role
Owner

Field Value
Ocean Variables Other
Scope Dataset
Status Completed
Topic Category oceans
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North Bounding Latitude 52.38901106223457
South Bounding Latitude 49.38237278700956
East Bounding Longitude -123.90380859374997
West Bounding Longitude -129.26513671874994
Vertical Extent
Min
0.0
Max
2500.0
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