Education (EDU) Coordinate system: 4326 - "WGS 84" Abstract: The Education layer contains Elementary Schools, High Schools (secondary schools), Universities, Colleges and Cégeps. Note: In 2012, there was a datum change from NAD83 to WGS84.

Additional Documentation

• Metadata Information

  Language: eng; CAN

  Last Update: 2015-06-11

  Other Maintenance Requirements:

  This metadata was automatically generated from the FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata standard version FGDC-STD-001-1998.

  Metadata Contact:

  Scholars Portal, Ontario Council of University Libraries Toronto Ontario, Canada

  http://scholarsportal.info

  Contact Instructions:

  gis@scholarsportal.info

  Metadata Standard:

  ISO 19115-2

• Citation Information

  
  
  

  Series

  Name: CanMap RouteLogistics

  
  

  DMTI Spatial Inc. Markham Ontario, Canada

  Themes or Categories of the Resource: society

  Keywords:

  School, education, secondary, elementary, university, college

  EDUCATION, HIGHER EDUCATION, UNIVERSITY, LEARNING

  Education, School boards, Schools, Universities, Colleges, CEGEPs, Secondary schools, Éducation / Enseignement, Commission scolaire, Université, Collège

  Place Keywords:

  Continent > North America > Canada

  Purpose:

  To create a dataset of Canadian educational facilities. Can be used for cartographic display or statistical applications.

  Dataset Language: eng; CAN

  Status: completed

  Update Frequency: asNeeded

  Spatial Representation Type: vector

  Processing Environment:

  Native Dataset Environment: Microsoft Windows 2000 Version 5.2 (Build 3790) Service Pack 2; ESRI ArcCatalog 8.3.0.800

  Extent

  West Longitude: -140.875303

  East Longitude: -52.688227

  North Latitude: 71.985123

  South Latitude: 41.808404

  
  

  Supplemental Information:

  Education data was manually typed into an access database from lists provided by provincial school boards. The data was then geocoded to create EDU points.

  DMTI Spatial Inc Markham Ontario, Canada

• Spatial Representation - Vector

  Geometric Objects:

  Object Type: point

  Object Count: 18595

• Reference System Information

  Reference System Identifier

  Value: 4326

  Code Space: http://www.epsg-registry.org/

• Data Quality Information

  Scope Level: dataset

  
  

  Process step:

  Dataset copied.

• Distribution Information

  Distributor:

  DMTI Spatial Inc. Markham Ontario, Canada