Healthcare (HCR) Coordinate system: 4326 - "WGS 84" Abstract: The Healthcare layer includes Hospitals, Long-term Care Centres, Nursing Stations, Outpatient Clinics and Community Health Centres. Note: In 2012, there was a datum change from NAD83 to WGS84.

Additional Documentation

• Metadata Information

  Language: eng; CAN

  Last Update: 2015-06-11

  Other Maintenance Requirements:

  This metadata was automatically generated from the FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata standard version FGDC-STD-001-1998.

  Metadata Contact:

  Scholars Portal, Ontario Council of University Libraries Toronto Ontario, Canada

  http://scholarsportal.info

  Contact Instructions:

  gis@scholarsportal.info

  Metadata Standard:

  ISO 19115-2

• Citation Information

  
  
  

  Series

  Name: CanMap RouteLogistics

  
  

  DMTI Spatial Inc. Markham Ontario, Canada

  Themes or Categories of the Resource: health

  Keywords:

  Hosptial, nursing home, outpatient, medical

  Health care facilities, Health care, Soins de santé, Établissement de santé

  Place Keywords:

  Continent > North America > Canada

  Purpose:

  To create a dataset of Canadian healthcare facilities. Can be used for cartographic display or statistical applications.

  Dataset Language: eng; CAN

  Status: completed

  Update Frequency: asNeeded

  Spatial Representation Type: vector

  Processing Environment:

  Native Dataset Environment: Microsoft Windows 2000 Version 5.2 (Build 3790) Service Pack 2; ESRI ArcCatalog 8.3.0.800

  Extent

  West Longitude: -140.875303

  East Longitude: -52.692756

  North Latitude: 76.395732

  South Latitude: 42.026159

  
  

  Supplemental Information:

  CANADA: Hospitals - Guide to Canadian Healthcare Facilities (1999) was typed in manually including addresses. Each record was then geocoded and points were created.

  DMTI Spatial Inc Markham Ontario, Canada

• Spatial Representation - Vector

  Geometric Objects:

  Object Type: point

  Object Count: 6222

• Reference System Information

  Reference System Identifier

  Value: 4326

  Code Space: http://www.epsg-registry.org/

• Data Quality Information

  Scope Level: dataset

• Distribution Information

  Distributor:

  DMTI Spatial Inc. Markham Ontario, Canada