Parks Canada Facility Locations as Geospatial Points

A point layer showing the locations of facilities managed by Parks Canada, last updated on 2026-07-17. A facility is defined as an area containing one or more components, such as a visitor centre with parking lots, playgrounds, and picnic areas. The data is provided by Parks Canada and is available in multiple geospatial formats including SHP, CSV, and GEOJSON.

Use Cases

• Map public facility locations based on the point layer description.
• Analyze the distribution of recreational infrastructure based on the concept of multi-component facilities.
• Integrate facility point data with other geospatial layers for land-use planning.
• Visualize Parks Canada assets for maintenance and resource allocation.

Strengths

• Data is updated weekly, as stated in the description.
• Available in multiple standard geospatial formats: SHP, CSV, GEOJSON, KML, and ESRI REST.
• Published under the open OGL-CA-2.0 license.

Limitations

• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The description notes the data is not necessarily complete.

Provenance

Source

Parks Canada

Freshness

Weekly updates; last updated 2026-07-17 20:31:00.722139.

Geography

Canada (inferred from organization and platform)