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Provincial Basemap B provides points, lines, and polygons representing a basemap with additional hydrography across Alberta in the NAD 1983 10TM AEP Forest (EPSG 3400) projection. The service showcases primary provincial base map data, including major hydrographic features, municipalities, major roads, railways and select geoadministrative features (parks, reserves, etc.).To improve performance, the service has been cached using the NAD83 Version 2 tiling scheme. The map is stored as pre-generated raster tiles that are delivered to client applications at predefined scales and levels of detail. Note: Last updated on Dec 5, 2024.The dataset includes the following feature groups:Administration Boundaries: Provincial Recreation Areas, Wilderness Areas, Wilderness Parks, Wildland Parks, Provincial Parks, National Parks, Metis Settlements, Air Weapons Range, Military Bases, Native Reservation (feature outline masks, polygons)Boundary Lines: Private Boundaries (lines), Provincial Boundaries (feature outline masks, lines, polygons)Transportation/Access (lines)Urban Municipalities: Cites, Towns, Urban Service Areas, Villages, Summer Villages, Hamlets, Localities, Townsites (text, points, polygons)Water Features (lines, polygons, annotations)Contact :ti.agsp@gov.ab.ca |