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This layer contains unamed lake and other hydrography feature type labels derived from the "name" field of the FWMIS Waterbody Polygons attribute table.
This layer is not visible when zoomed out beyond 1:216,671.
Label symbology is controlled by a label manager label classes using the following visiblity scales:
1) 1:216,671 to 1:144,418
2) 1:144,417 to 1:108,336
3) 1:108,335 to 1:54,168
4) 1:54,167 to 1:27,084
5) 1:27,083 to 1:13,542
6) 1:13,541 to 1:6,771
7) Not Visible Beyond 1:6,770
The FWMIS Hydropolygons are based off of the Base Features Waterbody Polygon (Base Waterbody Polygon) dataset and are used to identify spatial representation of mapped waterbodies within the province of Alberta. This layer provides fish species presence (both current and historic), Fish and Wildlife Management Information System (FWMIS) Waterbody ID, and Waterbody Official and Common Name. FWMIS Waterbody ID's are unique values assigned to mapped waterbodies with or without fish or fish habitat survey information (both current and historic).
The Fish and Wildlife Management Information System (FWMIS) - Hydrology polygons is a derived dataset from the Base Features Waterbody Polygon (Base Waterbody Polygon) dataset. Base Waterbody Polygon is the Alberta Environment and Parks base hydrography polygon dataset, and comprises seamless provincial extent hydrography polygon features collected from various sources of provincial base and resource map based data and some federal topographic data.
The FWMIS Hydropolygon has been modified for Fish and Wildlife business purposes, where spatial adjustments and field attributes have been added or removed as required. Modifications include, but are not limited to, the addition of a 'Species Presence' field, edits to spatial and aspatial components, removal of topological error, and semi-annual maintenance as required.
Data User Limitations
GENERAL PUBLIC: This digital data is protected under copyright to the Government of Alberta with all rights reserved and is subject to the conditions outlined in the Informatics Branch License Agreement for Digital Data. GOVERNMENT OF ALBERTA MINISTERIES: Government of Alberta Ministries and authorized agencies may conditionally use this data for internal business purposes which includes conditional sharing of the data with other third parties (i.e., contractors, stakeholders) if necessary for reasonable use of the data relating to the provision of services to the Crown as represented by each Ministry.
Species Presence represents a historic listing of fish species that have been sampled in a particular body of water and/or what species have been captured/stocked as a result of a fisheries inventory. Any species listed indicates it was captured/measured anywhere along that waterbody, and not a specific location. At time of use, the user assumes all responsibility for discrepancies with data contained in FWMIS. FWMIS/FWIMT is the official holder of all fisheries inventory data, and should be consulted as the sole source of fisheries survey information. |