Hakai Place Names Service - Coastal British Columbia - Canada

The place names service is derived from the British Columbia Terrain Resource Information Management Program (TRIM) annotation layer, as well as from place name information from the Hakai Institute.

The place names service consists of 4 layers: -TRIM 1:20000 Annotation -TRIM 1:1250000 Annotation -TRIM 1:250000 Annotation -Hakai Place Names

The TRIM Annotation metadata is available here http://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/trim-text-annotation

The Hakai Places Layer has the following attributes: OBJNAM: Name of the feature Landmarks: Code used to classify objects for labelling scale dependencies OBJTYPE: Type of object OBJCLASS: Class of object LABGROUP: Label group category (unused)

Processing by: Will McInnes, Keith Holmes (Hakai Institute), and BC Base Annotations data

Data and resources

Additional information

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.21966/446t-q065
Vertical extent0.0 – 2500.0 m
Date (publication)2015-11-18
Statuscompleted
Update frequencyasNeeded
Metadata languageen
ProjectsGeospatial, Airborne Coastal Observatory
LicenseCreative Commons Attribution 4.0
Source metadataISO 19115 XML
Last updated2026-10-02
Created2026-09-22
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