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GeoBase is your portal for no fee access to quality geospatial data!
What is GeoBase?
GeoBase is a federal, provincial and territorial government initiative that is overseen by the Canadian Council on Geomatics (CCOG). It is undertaken to ensure the provision of, and access to, a common, up-to-date and maintained base of quality geospatial data for all of Canada. Through the GeoBase portal, users with an interest in the field of geomatics have access to quality geospatial information at no cost and with unrestricted use. More on GeoBase initiative
Who are the partners?
Most of Geobase data are produced under partnership between federal, provincial and territorial agencies. GeoBase partners are involved in different levels of the data production process such as project funding, sharing of source data or by working on data collection and data processing. More on GeoBase partnerships
User Registration
User registration is mandatory for downloading GeoBase data. With registration you will get a username and password that will allow access at no cost to the best available data sets.
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Use and Restrictions
All distributed data should be accessed and used relatively to the GeoBase Unrestricted Use Licence Agreement. With this licence, users are granted a non-exclusive, fully paid, royalty-free right and licence to exercise all intellectual property rights in the data. This includes the right to use, incorporate, sublicense (with further right of sublicensing), modify, improve, further develop, and distribute the data; and to manufacture and/or distribute Derivative Products. The Licensee shall identify GeoBase as a data source.
Web Mapping Service (WMS)
The GeoBase WMS also permits direct access to GeoBase data through WMS functionalities following Open GeoSpatial Consortium (OGC) standards. Read more on GeoBase WMS.
Latest news
New NHN Data Release - FIRST NATIONAL COVERAGE
Publication of 38 new NHN-CL1 and NHN-CL2 datasets increasing the total number of available NHN datasets on the GeoBase portal to 1130.
New update of the Northwest Territories National Road Network dataset
Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) is pleased to announce the release of the fifth edition of the Northwest Territories National Road Network (NRN) dataset. Read More...
Raw SPOT 4 and SPOT 5 imagery is on-line!
In order to meet the needs of our growing user community, it was decided to distribute raw SPOT 4 and SPOT 5 imagery files on the GeoBase portal. Read More...
Ontario NRN dataset with Street Names, Place Names and Address Ranges
This dataset now includes Street Names, Place Names and Address Ranges as well as coverage of the provincial Resource / Recreation access roads. Read More...
New GeoBase data layers available!
Land Cover data and limits of Aboriginal Lands are now available. Read More...
Get your new GeoBase Newsletter!
The GeoBase Steering Committee and Secretariat are pleased to present the most recent GeoBase newsletter. This newsletter is part of a revitalized communications strategy created by the GeoBase Steering Committee to promote GeoBase more effectively. We hope that you find the information contained in this newsletter useful.
The latest information about data updates and standard developments are mentioned in the news section. Consult this section frequently to keep up with GeoBase related news. More GeoBase news