Landscape Units and Cultural Heritage for Laval Urban Development Plan

Geospatial data delineating landscape units for the territory of Laval, Québec. The dataset is associated with the cultural heritage component of the city's revised urban and development plan. It is provided by the Government and Municipalities of Québec under a CC-BY-4.0 license and was last updated on April 22, 2026.

Use Cases

• Mapping landscape unit boundaries for regional planning based on the territorial delimitation.
• Analyzing the integration of cultural heritage features into urban development plans.
• Conducting spatial analysis of land use and development zones for the City of Laval.

Strengths

• Data is available in multiple standard geospatial formats (SHP, GEOJSON, KML, CSV).
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.
• Last updated date is explicitly provided (2026-04 22).

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

Government and Municipalities of Québec | Gouvernement et municipalités du Québec

Collection Method

Likely derived from municipal planning and cartographic sources.

Time Range

Associated with the revised urban and development plan; specific temporal coverage is not stated.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-22 17:41:29.564178; freshness should be verified.

Geography

City of Laval, Québec, Canada.