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
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BC Base Annotations dataHTML Open
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Hakai's AGOL Instance is the platform for Access and online use of this dataset/'s reference layerHTML Open
Additional information
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.21966/446t-q065 |
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| Vertical extent | 0.0 – 2500.0 m |
| Date (publication) | 2015-11-18 |
| Status | completed |
| Update frequency | asNeeded |
| Metadata language | en |
| Projects | Geospatial, Airborne Coastal Observatory |
| License | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 |
| Source metadata | ISO 19115 XML |
| Last updated | 2026-10-02 |
| Created | 2026-09-22 |
| API | package_show |