Major Land Uses in Québec from the Revised Land Use and Development Plan

Government and Municipalities of Québec produced this dataset illustrating major land uses for the final draft of the revised land use plan. The data was derived from assessment units and merged for cartographic representation on map 37 of the R.A.V.Q.1310 plan. It is available in multiple geospatial formats under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Classifying land use categories based on the described assessment unit aggregation.
• Mapping urban and regional development zones based on the plan's major allocations.
• Analyzing spatial planning policy by integrating the data with other municipal datasets.

Strengths

• Data is provided in multiple standard geospatial formats (SHP, GEOJSON, KML, CSV).
• Has a clear, permissive license (CC-BY-4.0).
• Sourced from an authoritative government and municipal body in Québec.

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

Determined by unit of assessment and merged for representation for the revised land use plan.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-22 19:07:51.006980; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Québec, Canada (implied by the source organization and plan reference)