Historic Environmental Operations Regions of Alberta

Alberta's historic administrative boundaries for environmental and sustainable resource management operations, effective from May 29, 2013. The dataset contains polygon features representing regions made obsolete after a ministry reorganization. Data is provided in XML, HTML, and ESRI REST formats.

Use Cases

• Map historic administrative boundaries for environmental service delivery analysis using polygon features.
• Study the spatial organization of resource management prior to the 2013 ministry split using region polygons.
• Integrate polygon boundaries with other geospatial data to analyze historical land-use or environmental policy areas.

Strengths

• Polygon boundaries are explicitly defined for operational regions.
• Dataset has a clear effective date of May 29, 2013, providing temporal context.
• Maintained by the authoritative Government of Alberta for historic purposes.

Limitations

• Data represents obsolete regions no longer in active use, limiting current applicability.
• No row count, column details, or sample data are available to assess dataset scale and structure.
• Limited to the geographic province of Alberta.

Provenance

Source

Government of Alberta

Collection Method

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Time Range

Effective from May 29, 2013; historic.

Freshness

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Geography

Province of Alberta, Canada