The City of Campbell River is expanding mapping services available through its website thanks to a new open data catalogue.
“To increase access to the City’s mapping data, our geographic information services (GIS) department has launched a catalogue to allow people to pinpoint features and download for viewing on Google Maps,” explains Warren Kalyn, the City’s information technology manager.
“We anticipate this open data repository will be of particular interest to developers, businesses and citizens who required enriched data access delivered through interactive mapping.”
Open data is available to be freely used, modified and shared by anyone without restrictions from copyright, patents or other control mechanisms.
This data is now available for developers, researchers, community organizations and entrepreneurs to use. This supports problem solving and collaboration. An open data catalogue also supports our smart cities challenge application.
Open data will also result in enhanced services and products when developers build applications using this data to provide valuable information for residents and tourists.
New information available includes:
- The municipal boundary, property parcels, building footprints, roads and bike routes, City-maintained parks and public washrooms, community gardens, garbage routes, electric-vehicle charging stations, areas of interest such as the hospital, fire halls, museum and library.
The Open Data Catalogue is available at the following link for downloading geospatial data in the form of shapefiles and KML files for viewing on Google Maps.
The City continues to offer more robust interactive mapping applications for viewing data from the following link. Maps are best viewed using Google Chrome.