Municipal Sports Infrastructure Locations for Shawinigan

Sports Infrastructures - City of Shawinigan is a geospatial point dataset of municipal sports facilities. The dataset was created by scanning orthophotography and is provided by the Government and Municipalities of Québec. It was last updated in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Map facility locations by `sport` type and `sector` for spatial accessibility analysis.
• Build a public directory linking `name`, `address`, and `photo` fields for a community recreation portal.
• Analyze the distribution of `indoor` versus `outdoor` infrastructure using the `sport` attribute.
• Integrate `url` and `photo_360` fields into interactive maps for virtual tours of city amenities.

Strengths

• Includes 12 descriptive attributes per record, such as `sport`, `name`, and `address`.
• Provides multimedia links via `photo` and `photo_360` columns for visual context.
• Data is sourced from authoritative municipal orthophotography scans.

Limitations

• The total number of infrastructure points (rows) is not specified.
• Data coverage is limited to the single municipality of Shawinigan, Quebec.

Provenance

Source

Government and Municipalities of Québec | Gouvernement et municipalités du Québec

Collection Method

Scanning from orthophotography

Freshness

Updated in April 2026.

Geography

City of Shawinigan, Quebec, Canada