Populated Placenames (PPN) Coordinate system: 4326 - "WGS 84" Abstract: This point file represents populated places across Canada. Each point contains attribute information that includes, but is not limited to: the place name, coordinates, classification and measure of attribute precision. 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 Metadatastandard 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: location

  Keywords:

  Places, Place Points, City, Town, Village, Community, Canada, Point data

  URBAN AREAS, RURAL AREAS, COMMUNITIES

  Toponymy, Place names, Cities, Urban areas, Towns, Communauté urbaine, Toponymie

  Place Keywords:

  Continent > North America > Canada

  Purpose:

  To provide support for macro-level geocoding and cartographic 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: -141.000000

  East Longitude: -52.652631

  North Latitude: 82.516305

  South Latitude: 41.750000

  
  

  Supplemental Information:

  The product has been verified with sources such as: Natural Resources Canada - Canadian Geographic Names database and Statistics Canada Urban and Rural Area classifiers. The points are aligned to CanMap Streets and/or National Topographic Database features to improve positional accuracy.

  DMTI Spatial Inc Markham Ontario, Canada

• Spatial Representation - Vector

  Geometric Objects:

  Object Type: point

  Object Count: 27841

• Reference System Information

  Reference System Identifier

  Value: 4326

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

• Data Quality Information

  Scope Level: dataset

• Distribution Information

  Distributor:

  DMTI Spatial Inc. Markham Ontario, Canada