Nova Scotia School Board Boundaries And Contact Information

Boundary data for Nova Scotia school board zones includes administrative contact details like phone numbers and postal codes. The dataset is maintained by the Government of Nova Scotia and was last updated in March 2024. It provides the geographic shapes and attributes for each school board zone.

Use Cases

• Mapping school board zone boundaries and calculating area using BRDNAME, Shape_Area, and the_geom.
• Analyzing the relationship between postal codes and school board zones via CPOSTCODE and BRDCODE.
• Joining with student demographic data using BRDCODE or BRDNAME as a key for regional analysis.
• Creating a directory of board contact information from PHONE, FAX, and WEB columns.

Strengths

• Includes geographic geometry data (the_geom) for spatial analysis.
• Contains multiple administrative attributes per zone, such as BRDNAME, PHONE, and CPOSTCODE.
• Maintained by a government source (data.novascotia.ca).

Limitations

• Sample data unavailable, preventing verification of data quality and completeness.
• Key metrics like row count and total geographic coverage are unknown.
• License terms are unspecified, which may restrict commercial use.

Provenance

Source

data.novascotia.ca

Freshness

Last updated March 2024.

Geography

Nova Scotia, Canada