CDU Building of Heritage Interest: Laval Municipal Heritage Inventory

Mapping of buildings and other constructions of heritage interest in the urban planning code (CDU) on the territory of Laval. The dataset is provided by the Government and Municipalities of Québec and was last updated on 2026-04-22. It is available under a CC-BY-4.0 license in multiple geospatial formats.

Use Cases

• Identify and map heritage structures for urban planning based on the Laval CDU.
• Analyze the spatial distribution of protected heritage sites within a municipality.
• Support municipal policy development for heritage conservation based on the official inventory.

Strengths

• Data is provided in multiple standard geospatial formats (SHP, GEOJSON, KML, CSV).
• License is permissive (CC-BY-4.0) for reuse and modification.
• Last update timestamp is precisely recorded (2026-04-22 17:36:22.441458).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Government and Municipalities of Québec | Gouvernement et municipalités du Québec

Collection Method

Likely derived from municipal urban planning code (CDU) records.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-22 17:36:22.441458

Geography

Municipality of Laval, Québec, Canada