Geographical Names Digital Data ------------------------------- File Specifications ------------------- Data type: ASCII - ISO 8859 8-bit character w/ DOS CR Compression: compatible with zip, pkzip and tar File type: variable length records Field separator: tab Attributes: ----------- GeoName: char(100) CGNDB_Key: char(5) Generic_code: number(5) Generic_Term: char(60) Concise_code: char(4) Concise_Term_en: char(60) Concise_Term_fr: char(60) LatDec: number(9,7) LonDec: number(11,7) LatDMS: number(6) LonDMS: number(7) Latitude: char(20) Longitude: char(20) Coordinate_Accuracy: number(4) Datum: char(6) Nts_map: char(8) Language: char(3) Region_code: number(3) Region_Name_en: char(30) Region_Name_fr: char(30) Feature_Id: char(32) Record Statistics --------------------- places.dat 36274 records, 8372241 bytes places.zip 1886270 bytes Total PE (region 11) records= 860 Total NS (region 12) records= 3610 Total NB (region 13) records= 3180 Total QC (region 24) records= 9429 Total ON (region 35) records= 9447 Total AB (region 48) records= 2755 Total BC (region 59) records= 6558 Total YT (region 60) records= 203 Total NT (region 61) records= 133 Total NU (region 62) records= 99 Data valid as of: 16-Apr-2010 Contact us: ----------- - For further information on GeoBase, or for technical issues, contact: GeoBase Technical Support SupportGeoBase@nrcan.gc.ca Telephone: +01-819-564-4857 / 1-800-661-2638 (Canada and USA) Fax: +01-819-564-5698 http://www.geobase.ca/geobase/en/index.html - For further information on the data, contact: Heather Ross GNBC Secretariat Natural Resources Canada Tel. (613) 992-4136 FAX (613) 943-8282 email: heross@NRCan.gc.ca www: http://geonames.nrcan.gc.ca/index_e.php