Fees Within Soil Zones: Alberta Public Lands Disposition Charges

Polygon data representing Soil Zones in Alberta used to determine fees, rents, and other charges for public lands dispositions under Ministerial Order 49/2026. The dataset is provided by the Government of Alberta and was last updated on June 4, 2026. It is available in XML and ZIP formats under the OGL-CA-2.0 license.

Use Cases

• Calculate public land disposition fees based on soil zone polygons.
• Map administrative boundaries for land management and policy enforcement.
• Integrate spatial fee data with other land-use or environmental datasets.

Strengths

• Data is tied to a specific legal instrument (Ministerial Order 49/2026).
• Last update timestamp is precisely recorded (2026-06-04 13:01:29.199498).
• Published under a permissive open license (OGL-CA-2.0).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and total data size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to its source, covering only Alberta, Canada.

Provenance

Source

Government of Alberta | Gouvernement de l'Alberta

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-04 13:01:29.199498; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Alberta, Canada