AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Oil and Gas Well Naming Index

Index of geographic names and associated areas which provide geographic references in the naming of wells where few pre-existing oil and gas fields have been designated.  The areas in the well naming index are to be used for well naming only if the well is outside of any existing field boundary.

Tags: BC, BC Energy Regulator, BCER, Energy Regulator, Northeast, OGC, Oil and Gas Commission, oil and gas, strike areas, well naming, well naming index
Organization: British Columbia Energy Regulator
Oil and Gas Land Plats

Land Plats illustrate in map view the oil or gas Spacing Areas delimited in a pool, and names the geological formation in which the pool is recognised. Land Plats are the sole official record of where the Director of PandNG Titles Branch recognizes a pool of hydrocarbons to exist for the purpose of administering oil and gas title

Tags: BC Energy Regulator, BCER, Energy Regulator, OGC, Oil and Gas Commission, geological formation, hydrocarbon pool, land plat, oil and gas, plat, pool
Organization: Tenure and Resource Stewardship
BC Parks, Ecological Reserves, and Protected Areas

This dataset contains parks and protected areas managed for important conservation values and are dedicated for the preservation of their natural environments for the inspiration, use and enjoyment of the public. Places of special ecological importance are designated as ecological reserves for scientific research and educational purposes. Source data is Tantalis. 
*April 18, 2018: Prior to this date this dataset had one spatial boundary per park per survey plan that intersected the boundary of that park. This resulted in multiple identical boundaries for each park that had more than one survey plan overlapping it’s boundaries. The change aggregated the park data so that there is just one boundary per park with the plan numbers concatenated into a single column where each different plan number is separated by a comma.

Tags: BC Parks, Boundaries, Canada, Crown Land, Crown Land Registry, Crown Tenure, Eco Reserves, Ecological Reserves, Parks, Protected Area, Protected Land, Provincial Parks, Tantalis
Organization: BC Parks
TANTALIS - Surveyed Parcels (Polygons)

REDIRECTED - The resource that this record references is not distributed but is used in the generation of other, more complete and useful spatial views (SVW). For the latest Survey Parcel information please select from the following links:  
[TANTALIS – Surveyed Parcels](http://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/tantalis-surveyed-parcels)  [TANTALIS – Surveyed Right-of-way Parcels](http://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/tantalis-surveyed-right-of-way-parcels)

Tags: CLRS, Canada, Crown Land Registry, Crown Lands, tantalis
Organization: Lands Branch
Species and Ecosystems at Risk - (Masked Secured) Publicly Available Occurrences - CDC

The B.C. Conservation Data Centre spatial layer that displays a generalised area that masks the precise locations of secured occurrences of species and ecosystems at risk.  These are masked for public viewing and download. The occurrences may be secured due to the species or ecosystems being susceptible to persecution or harm, or for proprietary reasons.  For information or to obtain details about Masked Occurrence Records, please contact the CDC at cdcdata@gov.bc.ca and provide projects details including precise location information and activities expected to occur on site or other reasons for requiring the information. Release of details of secured occurrences is subject to the signing of a Confidentiality and Non-reproduction Agreement and a demonstrated "need-to-know".

Tags: CDC, Canada, at risk, conservation data centre, ecology, ecosystem, endangered, rare, sensitive, species, threatened
Organization: Ecosystems
Environmental Remediation Sites - Internal

A layer containing data on known and potentially contaminated properties in British Columbia. A site is contaminated if its land, water and/or sediment are unsuitable for particular uses from waste that  exceeds environmental quality standards. 
For publicly downloadable data, please use https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/63804e64-a4f3-4bc7-b1e3-5f736bbc3967.

Contact [BC OnLine](https://www.bconline.gov.bc.ca/) for further details for each site.

Tags: SIS, contaminated sites, site
Organization: Authorizations and Remediation
Groundwater Wells

Point features showing the location of groundwater wells in BC joined with attributes and information from the Groundwater Wells and Aquifers (GWELLS) application. NOTE: Artesian wells are flowing wells at the time of drilling.  

Suggested Filters:
- Groundwater Supply Wells - Intended Water Use: WELL_CLASS = 'Water Supply'
- Provincial Observation Wells: OBSERVATION_WELL_STATUS = 'Active' OR OBSERVATION_WELL_STATUS = 'Inactive'

Tags: Canada, groundwater, gwells, hydrogeology, water well, well
Organization: Watershed Stewardship and Security
BCTS Sales Schedule - Public Access

The BCTS Sales Schedule is a spatial view that provides information on the current BC Timber Sales opportunities across the Province. This is a rolling sales schedule that will show four fiscal year quarters of BC Timber Sales (BCTS) auction opportunities at any time. The Sales Schedule view data is updated at the beginning of each quarter of the fiscal year (April 01, July 01, October 01, January 01).

Tags: BC Timber Sales, BCTS, Sales Schedule, TSL
Organization: BC Timber Sales
Forest Operations Map (FOM) - Road Sections

This spatial layer reflects planned and final road sections within a proposed Forest Operations Map and contains the center line of the road section. Each feature contains a DEVELOPMENT_DATE, indicating the anticipated date of development. The layer contains road sections within a Forest Operations Map in proposed and final states. Each road section has an optional NAME field to facilitate referencing the feature during public engagement processes.  

Proposed road sections may be altered in response to public comments prior to being described as final within this data set. 


Tags: Cutblocks, FOM, Final, Forest Operations Map, Proposed, Roads
Organization: Forest Science, Planning and Practices Branch
Old Growth Technical Advisory Panel (TAP) - Recruitment Forest

This dataset defined by the Old Growth Technical Advisory Panel (TAP) depicts supplemental areas to big-treed old growth.  

For more information please consult the [Old Growth Technical Advisory Panel Report](https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/farming-natural-resources-and-industry/forestry/stewardship/old-growth-forests/summary_for_g2g_package.pdf).


Tags: Designated Areas, OG, Old Growth, Old Growth Management Area, Old Growth Strategic Review, TAP, Technical Advisory Panel
Organization: Provincial Stewardship Strategies and Planning
Heritage Conservation Areas of BC

This dataset contains spatial and attribute data for local government Heritage Conservation Areas (HCAs) established for heritage conservation purposes in British Columbia, as tracked by BC Heritage Branch. Under the Local Government Act, a local government may designate a HCA within its Official Community Plan (OCP). An OCP may include a schedule of properties located within a Heritage Conservation Area that are considered to be protected heritage property. This is a multi-part polygon layer.

Tags: BC, BC Register of Historic Places, British Columbia, Cultural Heritage, Heritage Conservation Area, environment, heritage, historic, historic place, historic site, historical site, official community plan, register
Organization: Heritage Branch
Section 58 Recreation Orders - Lines

This data set contains trails for Section 58 Recreation Orders. Section 58 orders are used for purposes of protecting and managing public recreation and range resources and uses that fall within Ministry mandate. They may restrict or prohibit non-recreational and recreational uses on crown land. The purpose of this layer is to provide a provincial view for both internal users and external users. Information will be provided to both the public as well as enforcement officers. It will also be easily available to provide accurate information for land status inquiries.

Tags: closure, rec closure
Organization: Recreation Sites and Trails BC
StrongStart BC Centre Locations

Contact and location information for StrongStart BC Centres. For dynamic contact information for schools, see http://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/apps/imcl/imclWeb/Home.do or view a map of BC districts and schools at http://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/reporting/maps/welcome.php

Tags: early learning, pre k, strong start, strong start centre
Organization: Education Analytics Office
Old Growth Management Areas - Legal - All

This data layer shows retired and current Legal Old Growth Management Areas, and is only accessible by BC Government users. Public users please see the 'Current' version of this data: [https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/1b30f3bd-0ad0-4128-916b-66c6dd91dea4](https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/1b30f3bd-0ad0-4128-916b-66c6dd91dea4).

Legally established and spatially defined areas of old growth forest that are identified during landscape unit planning or an operational planning process.  Forest licensees are required to maintain legally established OGMAs when preparing FSPs.  OGMAs, in combination with other areas where forestry development is prevented or constrained, are used to achieve biodiversity targets. This spatial view will show all historical transactions (past and present) however the sensitive information will be excluded.

Please see the Additional Information and Object Description Comments below.

Tags: OGMA, OGMA Legal, OGMA Legal All, Old Growth Management Area, Old Growth Management Area Legal, Old Growth Management Area Legal All
Organization: Collaborative Stewardship and Cumulative Effects Management
ALC ALR Lines

The spatial representation for a segment of the boundary of an Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR), which is a parcel of land, based on soil and climate, deemed necessary to be maintained for agricultural use. The data gets updated four times a year, at the end of: Jan, Apr, Jul and Oct. It is also available on the ALC's website: https://www.alc.gov.bc.ca/alc/content/alr-maps/maps-and-gis
History: ALR hard copy base (1:50000) and large scale constituent maps. Compilation from hard copy maps rectified to standard provincial base digital data (TRIM, CDMS, ICI, PMBC).
Resolution: Variable, determined for feature from base source.
Registry: Land Reserve Commission, 201-4940 Canada Way, Burnaby BC, V5G-4K6, (604)660-7000. 

For the publicly available dataset [WHSE_LEGAL_ADMIN_BOUNDARIES.OATS_ALR_BOUNDARY_LINES_SVW](https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/b23a6be5-c7b0-4a12-a598-bb369a159be1)

Tags: ALR, Agricultural Land Commission
Organization: Agricultural Land Commission
Assessment Report Index System (ARIS) Database

The British Columbia Geological Survey (BCGS) manages and maintains a library of over 39,600 mineral Assessment Reports. These reports have been filed by the exploration and mining industry since 1947 and describe exploration work costing over 2.8 billion dollars.  The reports contain information on geology, geophysics, geochemistry, drilling, prospecting and physical work.  After a one-year confidentiality period, this information is available for planning mineral exploration investment, research studies, land-use planning and resource management.  The mineral reports are reviewed for compliance with the Mineral Tenure Act Regulations and indexed in the ARIS (Assessment Report Indexing System) database.  ARIS archives previous exploration results so that the exploration community can advance projects without duplicating previous work.  All reports coming off confidential are distributed as .PDF files on the Internet.  Over 620 reports have accompanying digital data which are provided as .ZIP downloads. ARIS can be accessed through ARIS/www, a Web search tool, and the web services of MapPlace.  The ARIS database can also be downloaded from the BCGS website and the BC Data Catalogue.

Tags: ARIS, assessment reports, digital data, exploration results, geology, index system, mineral deposits, mineral exploration, mineral occurrences, owner and operator, work done
Organization: BC Geological Survey
MTA  - Mineral, Placer and Coal Tenure Spatial View

This is the spatial view used by Mineral Titles Online (MTO) on the mineral, placer and coal viewers. The spatial view combines the polygon information with attribute information for each title.

Contains sub-surface title data in British Columbia for:

- mineral claims, mining leases, mineral claim applications
- placer claims, placer leases, placer claim applications
- coal license applications, coal licenses, coal leases

Tags: MTO, Mineral Titles Branch, Mineral Titles Online, claim cost, mineral, mineral title, placer, province, tenure
Organization: Mineral Titles
Oil and Gas Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure Applications

The area of Crown land disturbance for applications falling within a Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure (MOTI) road allowance.  The BC Energy Regulator issues cutting permits for any new Crown land disturbance within MOTI unconstructed road allowances.  The Regulator does not issue land tenure over MOTI right of ways.  This dataset contains polygon features for proposed applications collected through the Regulator's Application Management System (AMS). This dataset is updated nightly.

Tags: Applications, BC Energy Regulator, BCER, Energy Regulator, MOTI, Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure, OGC, Oil and Gas Commission, oil and gas
Organization: British Columbia Energy Regulator
Oil and Gas Regional Fields

Geographic outline of large, unconventional natural gas accumulations that are specific to a geological formation. Regional fields cover an expansive area which is too large to provide a meaningful geographic reference and consequently are not to be used for well naming purposes.

Tags: BC, BC Energy Regulator, BCER, Energy Regulator, Northeast, OGC, Oil and Gas Commission, oil and gas, regional field
Organization: British Columbia Energy Regulator
TANTALIS - Administrative Areas

Administration areas - this is the SDE layer from which a number of layers are extracted including: BC Land Assessment Areas;  Incorporated cities, districts, municipalities, towns, or villages; Indian Reserves; BC Land Districts; BC Land Management Regions; BC Land Title Districts; Parks, Reserves or other types of both Federal and Provincial jurisdiction; BC Provincial Electoral Districts;  BC Regional Districts; and BC School Districts. Tantalis is an information system designed specifically for the needs of the complex workings of Crown Land Registry and to provide automated support for all aspects of Crown land administration. It was designed to provide a foundation for integrating spatial data associated with mapping of survey plans and administrative boundaries with attribute data associated with legal documents and administrative records. The system records and tracks the sale, survey, license, access, return, and restriction of Crown land in British Columbia. This new system introduced the capacity for further applications, to revolutionize access and processing of Crown land information

Tags: CLRS, Canada, Crown Land Registry, Crown Lands, municipal boundaries, municipal boundary, tantalis
Organization: Lands Branch
TANTALIS - Management Areas (Spatial)

TA_MGMT_AREAS_SPATIAL_SVW contains the spatial representation (polygon) of the management area boundaries established pursuant to section 3 of the Muskwa-Kechika Management Area Act. The view was created to provide a simplified view of this data from the administrative boundaries information in the Tantalis operational system

Tags: CLRS, Canada, Crown Land, Crown Land Registry, Crown Tenure, tantalis
Organization: Lands Branch
Wildlife Habitat Areas - Proposed

Wildlife habitat areas (WHAs) are mapped areas that are necessary to meet the habitat requirements of an Identified Wildlife element. WHAs designate critical habitats in which activities are managed to limit their impact on the Identified Wildlife element for which the area was established. The purpose of WHAs is to conserve those habitats considered most limiting to a given Identified Wildlife element. This dataset contains proposed WHAs for the entire province except for the Omenica Region as there are none in the consultation phase at this time

Tags: WHA, specified area, wildlife habitat area
Organization: Terrestrial Species Recovery
Child Care Map Data

This dataset provides information which is currently displayed on the Child Care Programs Map.  The intent of the Child Care Programs Map is to provide an online resource to assist families searching for ministry-funded licensed child care listed by city, address, licence type and services offered.  New licensed child care facilities are added as they become operational.  The dataset is updated daily. [Child Care Map Application](https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/d9ea3a4c-08df-48af-9776-a34a34d46201)

Tags: IMF, ccf, child care, daycare, facilities, family, group care, infant, kindergarten, preschool, school age, service, sites registry, toddler
Organization: Child Care Programs and Services
Fossil Sites

Fossil sites in British Columbia consist of polygons based on known fossil collection events in a geographic area. Each area has a descriptive name and the polygon boundaries are updated as new information becomes available. The spatial view contains information about the location, sub-sites, and significance ranking code for the fossil resource potential.

Publicly downloadable data can be found [here](https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/important-fossil-areas).

Tags: fossil, fossil resource, fossil site, geology, paleontology, stratigraphy
Organization: Heritage Branch
Fossil Collection Events

This spatial view contains information about known fossil collection events in British Columbia. Both macrofossils and microfossils are included. This is a point feature dataset that includes fossil collection event details such as a location descriptor, samples collected, significance ranking code, and related publications. The dataset is an inventory of known fossil collection locations from government survey and mapping work, paleontology research, industrial activities, and reports by recreational fossil collectors.

Publicly downloadable data can be found [here](https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/important-fossil-areas)

Tags: fossil, fossil location, fossil occurrence, fossil resource, fossil sites, geologic age, geologic time, paleontology, records, stratigraphy
Organization: Heritage Branch
Canadian National Wetland Inventory BC

The **Canadian National Wetland Inventory (CNWI)** is a national initiative to compile, process, and publish the best available wetland mapping and field validated data throughout Canada. The CNWI aims to map all natural, constructed, and managed wetlands in both freshwater and coastal marine systems. The CNWI National spatial product and the CNWI National User Manual are available for download on the [Government of Canada’s Open Data Portal](https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services/wildlife-habitat/canadian-national-wetland-inventory.html).

The **CNWI British Columbia (CNWI-BC)** is an amalgamated dataset that includes all CNWI National data within BC as well as additional BC-specific fields and domains to capture unique attributes and categories as described in various BC classification systems ([RIC 1998](https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/environment/natural-resource-stewardship/nr-laws-policy/risc/tem_man.pdf); [RISC 2023](https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/environment/natural-resource-stewardship/nr-laws-policy/risc/tei_digital_submission_standards_v3.pdf); [BCMFR and MOE 2010](https://www.for.gov.bc.ca/hfd/pubs/Docs/Lmh/Lmh25/Lmh25_ed2_(2010).pdf); [MacKenzie and Moran 2004](https://www.for.gov.bc.ca/hfd/pubs/Docs/Lmh/Lmh52.htm); [MacKenzie 2012](https://www.for.gov.bc.ca/hfd/pubs/Docs/Tr/Tr068.htm), etc.) and to ensure integration with provincial datasets. The CNWI-BC is published on an as needed basis when additional data is available and compiled. The Canadian Wildlife Service (CWS) Pacific will integrate CNWI-BC data to the CNWI National Product periodically.

Current version:

v13 (published on 2026-03-15)

Previous versions: 

v12 (published on 2024-10-10)


Tags: BC, CNWI, Federal, ecosystems, habitat, wetlands
Organization: Knowledge Management
Indicator Summary Data: BC Fine Particulate Matter Canadian Ambient Air Quality Standards

This tabular dataset is the result of an analysis supporting the '[Status of Fine Particulate Matter in B.C.](http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/soe/indicators/air/fine-pm.html)' indicator produced by [Environmental Reporting BC](http://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content?id=FF80E0B985F245CEA62808414D78C41B). The results contain the [Canadian Ambient Air Quality Standards (CAAQS)](http://www.ccme.ca/en/resources/air/aqms.html#anchor1) metrics for fine particulate matter (PM2.5) for air quality monitoring stations and [air zones](https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content?id=895F1B8372C44D4FBC2FD43602749747) in B.C. It contains results for the reporting periods 2011-2013, 2014-2016, 2016-2018, 2018-2020, 2019-2021, 2020-2022, 2021-2023 and 2022-2024. The analysis uses the following source datasets:

- [Air Quality Monitoring: Verified Hourly Data](https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/77eeadf4-0c19-48bf-a47a-fa9eef01f409)
- [Air Quality Monitoring Station metadata](https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/01867404-ba2a-470e-94b7-0604607cfa30)
- [British Columbia Air Zones](https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/e8eeefc4-2826-47bc-8430-85703d328516)

The methods and [**R**](https://www.r-project.org/) code for reproducing this indicator summary data is available on [GitHub](https://github.com/bcgov/pm25-caaqs-indicator).

Tags: British Columbia, Canadian Ambient Air Quality Standard, air pollution, air quality, environmental reporting, indicator, stateofenvironment
Organization: Environmental Monitoring and Analysis Branch
Indicator Summary Data: BC Ground-Level Ozone Canadian Ambient Air Quality Standards

This tabular dataset is the result of an analysis supporting the '[Status of Ground-Level Ozone in B.C.](http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/soe/indicators/air/ozone.html)' indicator produced by [Environmental Reporting BC](http://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content?id=FF80E0B985F245CEA62808414D78C41B). The results contain the [Canadian Ambient Air Quality Standards (CAAQS)](http://www.ccme.ca/en/resources/air/aqms.html#anchor1) metrics for ozone for air quality monitoring stations and [air zones](https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content?id=895F1B8372C44D4FBC2FD43602749747) in B.C. It contains results for the reporting periods 2011-2013, 2014-2016, 2015-2017, 2016-2018, 2018-2020, 2019-2021, 2020-2022, 2021-2023 and 2022-2024. The analysis uses the following source datasets:

- [Air Quality Monitoring: Verified Hourly Data](https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/77eeadf4-0c19-48bf-a47a-fa9eef01f409)
- [Air Quality Monitoring Station metadata](https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/01867404-ba2a-470e-94b7-0604607cfa30)
- [British Columbia Air Zones](https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/e8eeefc4-2826-47bc-8430-85703d328516)

The methods and [**R**](https://www.r-project.org/) code for reproducing this indicator summary data is available on [GitHub](https://github.com/bcgov/ozone-caaqs-indicator).


Tags: British Columbia, Canadian Ambient Air Quality Standard, air pollution, air quality, environmental reporting, indicator, stateofenvironment
Organization: Environmental Monitoring and Analysis Branch