Abstract: The Village dataset is comprised of all the polygons that represent Villages in Alberta. Village is a municipality type defined under the authority of the Municipal Government Act. The formation of a Village can occur when a majority of the buildings are on parcels of land smaller than 1850 square meters and there is a population of 300 or more.
Metadata: 
  File identifier: 
      1F781C01-8685-4550-9976-7A55DB028E99
  Language: 
    Language Code: 
      eng
  Character set: 
    Character set code: 
      utf8
  Hierarchy level: 
    Scope code: 
      dataset
  Metadata author: 
    Responsible party: 
      Organisation name: 
          Alberta Environment and Protected Areas, Government of Alberta
      Position name: 
          Provincial Geospatial Centre
      Contact info: 
        Contact: 
          Phone: 
            Telephone: 
              Voice: 
                  7804277374
          Address: 
            Address: 
              Delivery point: 
                  14th Floor, Oxbridge Place
              Delivery point: 
                  9820 - 106 Street NW
              City: 
                  Edmonton
              Administrative area: 
                  Alberta
              Postal code: 
                  T5K 2J6
              Country: 
                Country: 
                  CA
              Electronic mail address: 
                  PGC.Metadata@gov.ab.ca
          Hours of service: 
              08:15 to 16:30 Monday to Friday
      Role: 
        Role code: 
          publisher
  Date stamp: 

      2024-10-04
  Metadata standard name: 
      NAP - Metadata
  Metadata standard version: 
      1.2
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Spatial representation info:

Vector spatial representation: Topology level: Topology level code: geometryOnly Geometric objects: Geometric objects: Geometric object type: Geometric object type code: composite Geometric object count: 80
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Reference system info:

Reference system: Reference system identifier: RS Identifier: Code: 3400 Code Space: EPSG Version: 6.11(9.3.0.0)
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Identification info:

Data identification: Citation: Citation: Title: Village Date: Date: Date: 2001-06-01 Date type: Date type code: creation Date: Date: Date: 2024-10-04 Date type: Date type code: publication Date: Date: Date: 2022-12-14 Date type: Date type code: revision Cited responsible party: Responsible party: Organisation name: Alberta Environment and Protected Areas, Government of Alberta Position name: Provincial Geospatial Centre Contact info: Contact: Phone: Telephone: Voice: 7804277374 Address: Address: Delivery point: 14th Floor, Oxbridge Place Delivery point: 9820 - 106 Street NW City: Edmonton Administrative area: Alberta Postal code: T5K 2J6 Country: Country: CA Electronic mail address: PGC.Metadata@gov.ab.ca Hours of service: 08:15 to 16:30, Monday to Friday Role: Role code: originator Abstract: The Village dataset is comprised of all the polygons that represent Villages in Alberta. Village is a municipality type defined under the authority of the Municipal Government Act. The formation of a Village can occur when a majority of the buildings are on parcels of land smaller than 1850 square meters and there is a population of 300 or more. Purpose: The Village dataset provides users with GIS ready polygonal representation of all Villages in the province of Alberta, and is suitable for indexing or analysis purposes. Status: Progress code: completed Point of contact: Responsible party: Organisation name: Alberta Environment and Protected Areas, Government of Alberta Position name: Provincial Geospatial Centre Contact info: Contact: Phone: Telephone: Voice: 7804277374 Address: Address: Delivery point: 9820 - 106 Street NW Delivery point: 14th Floor, Oxbridge Place City: Edmonton Administrative area: Alberta Postal code: T5K 2J6 Country: Country: CA Electronic mail address: PGC.Metadata@gov.ab.ca Hours of service: 08:15 to 16:30 Monday to Friday Role: Role code: pointOfContact Resource maintenance: Maintenance information: Maintenance and update frequency: Maintenance frequency code: asNeeded Descriptive keywords: Keywords: Keyword: Alberta, Canada Type: Keyword type code: place Descriptive keywords: Keywords: Keyword: Municipality Keyword: Urban municipality Keyword: Villages Type: Keyword type code: theme Resource constraints: Legal constraints: Access constraints: Restriction code: otherRestrictions Other constraints: To access the data you must agree to the terms of the Open Government Licence - Alberta found at https://open.alberta.ca/licence Resource constraints: Legal constraints: Use constraints: Restriction code: license Other constraints: Your use of this information will be governed by the terms of the Open Government Licence - Alberta, in force as of the date you accessed the information, found at https://open.alberta.ca/licence Resource constraints: Legal constraints: Use limitation: Distribution Liability: Under the terms of the Open Government Licence - Alberta, the Information is licensed as is, and the Information Provider excludes all representations, warranties, obligations, and liabilities, whether express or implied, to the maximum extent permitted by law. The Information Provider is not liable for any errors or omissions in the Information, and will not under any circumstances be liable for any direct, indirect, special, incidental, consequential, or other loss, injury or damage caused by its use or otherwise arising in connection with this licence or the Information, even if specifically advised of the possibility of such loss, injury or damage. Resource constraints: Security constraints: Classification: Classification code: unclassified User note: Public/Unrestricted Classification system: Government of Alberta Data and Information Security Classification Handling description: https://imtpolicy.sp.alberta.ca/standards/Pages/Data-and-Information-Security-Classification.aspx Spatial representation type: Spatial representation type code: vector Language: Language Code: eng Character set: Character set code: utf8 Topic category: Topic category code: boundaries Extent: Extent: Geographic element: Geographic bounding box: Extent type code: true West bound longitude: -119.68331 East bound longitude: -109.346243 South bound latitude: 48.938576 North bound latitude: 56.307602
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DISTRIBUTION INFO:

Distribution: Distribution format: Format: Name: File Geodatabase Version: 3.0 Specification: FGDB File decompression technique: ZIP Distribution format: Format: Name: Shapefile Version: 3.0 Specification: SHP File decompression technique: ZIP Distributor: Distributor: Distributor contact: Responsible party: Organisation name: Altalis Ltd. Contact info: Contact: Phone: Telephone: Voice: 4037163490 Facsimile: 4037163494 Address: Address: Delivery point: Suite 1550, 635 - 8 Avenue SW City: Calgary Administrative area: Alberta Postal code: T2P 3M3 Country: Country: CA Electronic mail address: support@altalis.com Hours of service: 08:00 to 16:30 Monday to Friday Contact instructions: The layer is a part of the Base Features product which can be accessed and downloaded via the Open Data option from Altalis: https://www.altalis.com/ Role: Role code: distributor Transfer options: Digital transfer options: Online: Online Resource: Linkage: URL: https://geospatial.alberta.ca/titan/rest/services/boundaries/municipal_communities_public/MapServer Protocol: REST Name: boundaries/municipal_communities_public (Map Server) Description: Map image REST service containing populated places in Alberta Function: Online function code: webService Online: Online Resource: Linkage: URL: https://geospatial.alberta.ca/portal/home/item.html?id=24c8aa099c5b470c8da41afcb72bfac4 Protocol: HTTPS Name: Communities Description: Map image service portal page with linkage to Esri feature service and open web map service (WMS) Function: Online function code: information
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Data quality info:

Data quality: Scope: Scope: Hierarchy level: Scope code: dataset Lineage: Lineage: Statement: Villages in Alberta are defined by Orders-in-Council. Besides name, each Village has a numeric identifier (i.e. 0150 for Hines Creek) designated by Alberta Municipal Affairs documented in the Municipal Codes. The Municipal Codes document also contains the number of Alberta municipalities by type (i.e. City, Improvement District, etc.). Process step: Process step: Description: Base Features initial compilation. Date and time: 2001-06-01T00:00:00 Processor: Responsible party: Organisation name: Alberta Environment and Protected Areas, Government of Alberta Position name: Provincial Geospatial Centre Contact info: Contact: Address: Address: Electronic mail address: AEP.GDAMetadata@gov.ab.ca Role: Role code: processor Process step: Process step: Description: Source data was ADP Municipal Boundary Village shape file. Amisk had an intersection issue which did not get loaded. As there were no boundary update differences since last Base Features Village version, and as a quick workaround, Amisk was taken out from the previous departmental Alberta Data Partnerships Village layer and loaded into Village shape layer. As Amisk was compiled to the Base Features standard, and thus had slight geometric variation from the most recent boundary representation in the ADP Village shipment. Names were populated according to Base Features Geoadministrative Areas specification standard. Date and time: 2005-11-01T00:00:00 Process step: Process step: Description: The latest MS Excel spreadsheet of the Municipal Codes is downloaded from the Alberta Municipal Affairs website and converted to dBase III format. The Village table (VILL_NAME and VILL_CODE) of the Base Features Geoadministrative Areas Specification, is updated according to the Altalis Ltd. Municipal Boundary Change Tracking spreadsheet, and converted from MS Word to dBase III format. The original source Village Shape file received from Altalis is processed, using a Informatics AML, to obtain a formatted Shape file preserved with the same original spatial accuracy. A 2nd AML is run to obtain polygons attributed according to the Base Features Geoadministrative Areas Specification Village table standard (i.e. VILL_NAME and VILL_CODE). The formatted shape polygon attribute values are validated against the Municipal Codes with the VILL_NAME normalized with upper/lower case according to the Base Features Geoadministrative Areas Specification Village table. Date and time: 2005-11-01T00:00:00 Process step: Process step: Description: Barnwell: Label change (O.C. 3/2008). Cremona: Annexation of land from County (O.C. 46/2008). Date and time: 2008-06-01T00:00:00 Process step: Process step: Description: Marwayne: Annexation of land from County (O.C. 470/2008). Tilley: Annexation of land from county (O.C. 462/2008). Date and time: 2008-10-01T00:00:00 Process step: Process step: Description: Hussar: Annexation of land from County (O.C. 531/2008). Loughead: Annexation of land from County (O.C. 544/2008). Date and time: 2008-12-01T00:00:00 Process step: Process step: Description: Source data was March 2009 ADP Municipal Boundary Town shape file. Thorsby: boundary correction. Date and time: 2009-03-01T00:00:00 Process step: Process step: Description: Source data was May 2009 ADP Municipal Boundary Town shape file. Boyle: Boundary change due to annexation (O.C. 52/2009). Date and time: 2009-05-01T00:00:00 Process step: Process step: Description: Kinuso: Dissolved (O.C. 407/2009). Thorhild: Dissolved (O.C. 131/2009). Date and time: 2009-10-01T00:00:00 Process step: Process step: Description: Milo: Boundary modification due to annexation (O.C. 565/2009). Date and time: 2010-02-01T00:00:00 Process step: Process step: Description: for Foremost: Boundary change due to annexation (O.C. 58/2010). Date and time: 2010-03-11T00:00:00 Process step: Process step: Description: for Chipman: Boundary change due to annexation (O.C. 68/2010). Currency date Date and time: 2010-03-25T00:00:00 Process step: Process step: Description: Currency date Date and time: 2010-05-01T00:00:00 Process step: Process step: Description: Boyle: Boundary change due to annexation (O.C. 275/2010 Currency 20100910). Derwent: Dissolved (O.C. 229/2010 Currency 20100714). New Sarepta: Dissolved (O.C. 230/2010 Currency 20100714) . Date and time: 2010-11-01T00:00:00 Process step: Process step: Description: Forestburg: Annexation boundary change (O.C. 342/2010, currency Date and time: 2010-12-01T00:00:00 Process step: Process step: Description: Nobelford: Correction changing boundary to include plan 7301HG. Date and time: 2011-01-01T00:00:00 Process step: Process step: Description: Nobelford: Annexation boundary change (O.C. 403/2010). Warburg: Annexation boundary change (O.C. 476/2010). Date and time: 2011-02-01T00:00:00 Process step: Process step: Description: Foremost: Annexation (O.C. 125/2011) Date and time: 2011-06-01T00:00:00 Process step: Process step: Description: Tilley - annexation (O.C. 462/2008 Oct. 1, 2008) Date and time: 2012-04-01T00:00:00 Process step: Process step: Description: Galahad - Annexation (O.C. 248/2012, July 24 2012); New Norway - Dissolution (O.C. 328/2012, October 17 2012) Date and time: 2012-12-01T00:00:00 Process step: Process step: Description: Tilley - Dissolved (O.C. 250/2013) Date and time: 2013-09-01T00:00:00 Process step: Process step: Description: Barnwell - Land separation (O.C. 3/2008) Date and time: 2014-05-01T00:00:00 Process step: Process step: Description: Village of Minburn - Dissolved into hamlet (O.C. 152/2015 June 24, 2015) Date and time: 2015-09-01T00:00:00 Process step: Process step: Description: Village of Galahad - Dissolved into hamlet (O.C. 259/2015 Nov. 17, 2015). Village of Strome - Dissolved into hamlet (O.C. 260/2015 January 1, 2016). Date and time: 2016-01-01T00:00:00 Process step: Process step: Description: Irma - Annexation (O.C. 298/2015 Dec. 18, 2015). Ryley - Annexation (O.C. 297/2015 Dec. 18, 2015). Date and time: 2016-02-01T00:00:00 Process step: Process step: Description: Chipman - Description changed but did not affect the boundary limits (O.C. 53/2016 March 8, 2016). Only the metadata changed but not the data. Date and time: 2016-05-01T00:00:00 Process step: Process step: Description: Thorsby - Dissolve. Name change from village to town (O.C. 344/2016 Dec. 13, 2016). Date and time: 2017-03-01T00:00:00 Process step: Process step: Description: Willingdon - Dissolve to Hamlet (O.C. 240/2017 July 12, 2017; Code = 0352). Botha - dissolve to Hamlet (O.C. 239/2017 July 12, 2017; Code = 0038) Date and time: 2017-09-01T00:00:00 Process step: Process step: Description: Nobleford - Change to Town (O.C. 28/2018 Feb. 21, 2018) Date and time: 2018-04-01T00:00:00 Process step: Process step: Description: Status Change The Village of Ferintosh (O.C. 190/2019 Oct 08, 2019). The Village of Ferintosh dissolves and becomes a hamlet in Camrose County. Annexation The Village of Forestburg (O.C. 277/2019 Dec 03, 2019) Updated Boundary for Village of Forestburg Date and time: 2020-01-06T00:00:00 Process step: Process step: Description: Update - Village of Gadsby - Dissolve Village of Gadsby into County of Stettler (O.C. 16/2020. Feb 1. 2020) Date and time: 2020-04-08T00:00:00 Process step: Process step: Description: Update - Village of Cereal(O.C. 384/2020), Dewberry(O.C. 385/2020), and Wabamun(O.C. 386/2020) dissolved and become Hamlets Date and time: 2021-01-11T00:00:00 Process step: Process step: Description: Update - Village of Hythe(O.C. 168/2021) dissolved and become hamlets Date and time: 2021-07-05T00:00:00 Process step: Process step: Description: Update - Boundary for the Village of Hussar (O.C. 406/2022; Dec. 14, 2022) Date and time: 2024-10-04T00:00:00 Source: Source: Description: Altalis Ltd. is the designated agent of Alberta Data Partnerships Ltd. (ADP) who provides the monthly update of the Village shape file to Alberta Environment and Protected Areas, if there are changes commencing Nov. 2005. Source citation: Citation: Title: Village.shp Date: missing Cited responsible party: Responsible party: Organisation name: Altalis Ltd. Contact info: Contact: Address: Address: Delivery point: Calgary, Alberta Role: Role code: publisher Cited responsible party: Responsible party: Organisation name: Altalis Ltd. Contact info: missing Role: Role code: originator Other citation details: Village.shp is part of a zip file delivered to Alberta Environment and Parks, Government of Alberta monthly that contains shapefiles of all municipality types maintained by Altalis.
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Metadata maintenance:

Maintenance information: Maintenance and update frequency: Maintenance frequency code: asNeeded
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