LidarBC's Open LiDAR Data Portal is an initiative to provide open public access to LiDAR and associated datasets collected by the Government of British Columbia.The data in the portal is released as Open Data under the Open Government Licence – British Columbia (OGL-BC).Four Government of British Columbia business areas and one department of the Government of Canada make LiDAR data available through the portal:GeoBCEmergency Management BC (EMBC)BC Timber Sales (BCTS)Forest Analysis and Inventory Branch (FAIB)Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)GeoBC is the provincial branch that oversees and manages LidarBC’s Open LiDAR Data Portal, including storage, distribution, maintenance, and updates.Please direct questions to LiDAR@gov.bc.ca.BC Data Catalogue Metadata:LiDAR: https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/d08b2795-d192-4377-8056-eccef50296e6LidarBC - Open LiDAR Data Portal: https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/cc11fb58-4837-4d6f-b783-95173e040983

This dataset consists of polyline, single part, and multi part polygons representing the Province of British Columbia. The terrestrial portion of the boundary was derived from the Administrative Boundaries Management System (ABMS) representation of the province: Province of British Columbia - Legally Defined Administrative Areas of BC. The coastal portion of the boundary differs from the ABMS boundary and was derived from the Freshwater Atlas (FWA): Freshwater Atlas Coastlines. This boundary may be updated periodically, as more accurate data becomes available. Due to the structure of the data, it does not meet the technical requirements to be published in the BC Geographic Warehouse (BCGW). It is available for download as an OGC GeoPackage and as an ESRI File Geodatabase in the Data and Resources box to the the right.

Open Data: What's it all about?. Visit https://dataone.org/datasets/sha256%3A39eb55aaa4c8373902df4341afd4ebd89ad262a827edb41b5fab3a3c8af3a3b3 for complete metadata about this dataset.

BC Parks data is available through the BC Parks API. The data contains information on provincial parks, conservation areas, and ecological reserves. This includes detailed descriptions of protected areas, available activities, amenities, park status, etc. BC Parks API is an open REST and GraphQL API web service providing access to a centralized compilation of current data related to provincial parks in B.C. The data are accessible via the BC Parks API are licensed under the Open Government License - BC. The API itself is licensed under the API Terms of Use (see related links, API Terms of Use). For more information, please see the BC Parks API console or GraphQL Playground.

Download all of the current BCER data as shapefiles in one zipped file.

This multi-year dataset has been compiled to provide users with a single, compact source of reliable BC public library data. For better cross-year comparisons, we have used the current (2018) question wording and numbering for all included years. Retired questions are also included for historical comparisons. Blank columns indicate that the question was not used in that particular year. Blank rows indicate the library was not yet active in that calendar year. The full data is available in both XLSX and CSV format.

Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – British Columbia.

SOURCE - https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/bc-public-libraries-statistics-2002-present

Objective(s): Momentum for open access to research is growing. Funding agencies and publishers are increasingly requiring researchers make their data and research outputs open and publicly available. However, clinical researchers struggle to find real-world examples of Open Data sharing. The aim of this 1 hr virtual workshop is to provide real-world examples of Open Data sharing for both qualitative and quantitative data. Specifically, participants will learn: 1. Primary challenges and successes when sharing quantitative and qualitative clinical research data. 2. Platforms available for open data sharing. 3. Ways to troubleshoot data sharing and publish from open data. Workshop Agenda: 1. “Data sharing during the COVID-19 pandemic” - Speaker: Srinivas Murthy, Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia. Investigator, BC Children's Hospital 2. “Our experience with Open Data for the 'Integrating a neonatal healthcare package for Malawi' project.” - Speaker: Maggie Woo Kinshella, Global Health Research Coordinator, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, BC Children’s and Women’s Hospital and University of British Columbia This workshop draws on work supported by the Digital Research Alliance of Canada. Data Description: Presentation slides, Workshop Video, and Workshop Communication Srinivas Murthy: Data sharing during the COVID-19 pandemic presentation and accompanying PowerPoint slides. Maggie Woo Kinshella: Our experience with Open Data for the 'Integrating a neonatal healthcare package for Malawi' project presentation and accompanying Powerpoint slides. This workshop was developed as part of Dr. Ansermino's Data Champions Pilot Project supported by the Digital Research Alliance of Canada. NOTE for restricted files: If you are not yet a CoLab member, please complete our membership application survey to gain access to restricted files within 2 business days. Some files may remain restricted to CoLab members. These files are deemed more sensitive by the file owner and are meant to be shared on a case-by-case basis. Please contact the CoLab coordinator on this page under "collaborate with the pediatric sepsis colab."

The BC Data Catalogue is the place to find B.C. Government data, applications and web services. Government ministries and many broader public sector agencies publish their data resources in the Catalogue. This data can be used to make informed decisions and create opportunities for the benefit of all British Columbians.

This entity is a point feature class within ESRI's Geodatabase. It stores the geographic location for an address location and will contain a unique feature identifier. Each location can represent one to many address designations.

Geospatially tagged crime incident data for Vancouver, BC. Covers the period from 2003 to November 2023 (data access date).

Fields: - TYPE: The type of crime activity. - YEAR: A four-digit field that indicates the year when the reported crime activity occurred.
- MONTH: A numeric field that indicates the month when the reported crime activity occurred.
- DAY: A two-digit field that indicates the day of the month when the reported crime activity occurred.
- HOUR: A two-digit field that indicates the hour time (in 24 hours format) when the reported crime activity occurred.
- MINUTE: A two-digit field that indicates the minute when the reported crime activity occurred - HUNDRED_BLOCK: Generalized location of the reported crime activity - NEIGHBOURHOOD: Neighbourhoods within the City of Vancouver are based on the census tract (CT) concept within census metropolita area (CMA). - X: Coordinate values are projected in UTM Zone 10 - Y: Coordinate values are projected in UTM Zone 10

Outdated versions of the dataset from the same source: - https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/wosaku/crime-in-vancouver - https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/agilesifaka/vancouver-crime-report - https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/sumaiaparveenshupti/vancouver-bc-historical-crime-data - https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/emilyb123/vancouver-crime-data

Timeseries data from 'Stewart, B.C.' (noaa_nos_co_ops_8219894)

Purpose: The purpose of this data is to provide positional and attribute information about west coast marine ports, terminals, shipyards, and harbours.Notes: This dataset identifies the geographic locations of marine ports, terminals, shipyards, and harbours on the west coast of British Columbia. The points were reviewed and cross referenced with government and industry data sources for geographic and attribute data accuracy.Suggested Filters:Harbour or Port: DESCRIPTION IN ('Harbour', 'Port')Shipyard or Terminal: DESCRIPTION IN ('Shipyard', 'Terminal')See how to apply filters.WMS GetCapabilities URL: DataBC also offers access to this data in OGC WMS format. WMS is useful when the map author does not require custom popups, styling, or analytic capabilities for the layer. ArcGIS Online authors may want to use WMS, instead of this ArcGIS Server layer, in the following scenarios: Where they want to use existing Data Custodian approved styling, and/or They only need simple identify and map rendering functionality.Copy the: WMS GetCapabilities URL to add this web item to an ArcGIS Online Map or Scene Viewer. In some cases, multiple Styles are listed in the GetCapabilities and can be added as WMS Custom parameters. For more information on how to use a WMS layer see - ESRI's OGC ArcGIS Online HelpBC Data Catalogue Metadata URL: https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/5f3c273a-7a0d-4b5f-8059-b34cc3f116c7

The Counties of British Columbia contains areas of land within the Province of British Columbia representing legally defined administrative areas described in the County Boundary Act. The purpose of this division is for the administration of justice. The counties were delineated using provincial base mapping features, following the metes and bounds descriptions in the Letters Patent. A polygon dataset that includes all of the administrative areas currently in the Administrative Boundaries Management System (ABMS) is available here. A complimentary point dataset that defines the administrative areas is also available here. The Legal document which divides the province of British Columbia into counties is available here. Other individual datasets are available from the following records: https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/province-of-british-columbia-legally-defined-administrative-areas-of-bc https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/municipalities-legally-defined-administrative-areas-of-bc https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/regional-districts-legally-defined-administrative-areas-of-bc https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/electoral-areas-legally-defined-administrative-areas-of-bc https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/islands-trust-legally-defined-administrative-areas-of-bc https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/local-trust-areas-legally-defined-administrative-areas-of-bc https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/sh-sh-lh-nation-legally-defined-administrative-areas-of-bc

Timeseries data from 'Revelstoke, B. C., BC (CYRV)' (gov_noaa_awc_cyrv)

The Historical Urban Population, 3700 BC - AD 2000, originally developed by the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, is the first spatially explicit global data set containing location and size of urban populations over the last 6,000 years. The data set was created by digitizing, transcribing, and geocoding historical, archaeological, and census-based urban population data. Each data point consists of a city name, latitude, longitude, year, population, and a reliability ranking to assess the geographic uncertainty of each data point. Despite spatial and temporal gaps, no other geocoded data set at this resolution exists. It can therefore be used to investigate long-term historical urbanization trends and patterns, evaluate the current era of urbanization, and build a richer record of urban population through history.

Land authorizations representing the road right of way for road activities. The spatial data includes polygon data for approved and post-construction road rights of way collected on or after October 30, 2006. Data is updated nightly.

The dataset titled "BC Parks, Ecological Reserves, and Protected Areas" falls under the domain of Housing Potential and is tagged with Environment and Housing Potential. It is available in the format of application/cellml+xml and has a size of 120 MB. The dataset, owned and published by the Government of British Columbia, was first published on 2020-06-05 and covers the time period from 2020-01-01 to 2025-01-01. The geospatial area data span is the province of British Columbia. The dataset is open for access and the contact point for access is the Government of British Columbia, specifically Glenna.Erlandson@gov.bc.ca. The dataset was last accessed on 2025-03-19 and is identified by the unique identifier 1130248f-f1a3-4956-8b2e-38d29d3e4af7. The language of the dataset is English. The dataset does not contain data about individuals or identifiable individuals, and it does not contain Indigenous data. The temporal resolution of the dataset is yearly, and the geospatial resolution is at the province level. The dataset consists of 23 rows, 15 columns, and 2789 data cells. The owning organization is the Government of Canada. The dataset, which is described as containing parks and protected areas managed for important conservation values, is dedicated to the preservation of their natural environments for the inspiration, use, and enjoyment of the public. The dataset is licensed under the Open Government Licence - Canada. The resources available in the dataset include 'BC Parks, Ecological Reserves, and Protected Areas'. The metadata was created on 2025-03-19 and last modified on 2025-03-28.

Point locations indicating proposed applications for short term water use for oil and gas development. This dataset contains spatial data for proposed applications collected through the BC Energy Regulator's Application Management System (AMS). Data is updated nightly.

HectaresBC provided web browser based access to visualize and analyze geospatial data that is grid based (100 meter X 100 meter cells). The system allowed users to easily create simple queries that combine multiple datasets and quantify values for different areas. This functionality allowed users to ask questions like “Where are the old pine forests that have more than 5 tons per hectare of biomass, within 500 meters of a road, on slopes with a gradient of 30 percent or less? What is this total biomass by forest district?” or “What is the total area covered by each Health Authority and how much of this area is within 800 meters of the coastline and has an average winter temperature below 5 Celsius?” The website is no longer available.

A pool, or group of pools, within a specified geographic area that contain oil or natural gas. Fields are not specific to producing geological formation(s). Fields are used for well naming purposes relative to the well site surface coordinates and the objective formation of the well. Data is updated nightly.