Government and Municipalities of Québec provides geospatial data delimiting territories exempt from Special Intervention Zone (ZIS) flood regulations. The dataset is published under a CC-BY-4.0 license and was last updated on 2026-04-22. It includes territories for which a ministerial order has been published in Quebec's Official Gazette.
Use Cases
- Mapping areas exempt from flood-related building restrictions based on the described territorial delimitations.
- Analyzing the spatial distribution of regulatory exemptions for the Special Intervention Zone (ZIS).
- Integrating exemption boundaries with other flood zone maps for comprehensive risk assessment.
- Monitoring changes in exempt territories over time as new ministerial orders are published.
Strengths
- Data is provided in multiple geospatial formats (PDF, ESRI REST, GPKG, FGDB/GDB) for flexibility.
- Published under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.
- Last update timestamp is precisely recorded (2026-04-22 19:08:32.806705).
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.
- The description metadata is limited and was translated via an automated tool.
Provenance
- Source
- Government and Municipalities of Québec | Gouvernement et municipalités du Québec
- Collection Method
- Likely compiled from official ministerial orders and gazette publications.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-22 19:08:32.806705; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Quebec, Canada