Province-wide mirrors of openly licensed datasets from the BC Data Catalogue, converted from the Province's web services to GeoParquet (query directly with DuckDB over HTTPS) and PMTiles. Independent mirror, not a Province of British Columbia publication; every collection is under the Open Government Licence – British Columbia. Start with AGENTS.md for query recipes. Build code and issues: github.com/alukach/bc-open-data.
1,166 mapped and classified aquifers, with material, productivity, vulnerability and demand ratings. Published by Watershed Stewardship and Security (Province of British Columbia) as [Ground Water ...
Extracted province-wide on 2026-10-07 from the BC Geographic Warehouse WFS by scripts/extract.sh in github.com/alukach/bc-open-data: pages of 10,000 features sorted by OBJECTID, row count checked against the server's numberMatched. Geometry is kept in the source CRS, EPSG:3005 (BC Albers); the file is spatially sorted with a bbox covering column. Dropped: GeoServer's synthetic id, and LATITUDE/LONGITUDE where the geometry carries them. PMTiles by scripts/tile.sh (tippecanoe, zooms 0-13).
Attribution
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – British Columbia.
Generated by Portolan from STAC metadata and .portolan/metadata.yaml
186,427 culverts on Ministry of Transportation roads, with material, size, installation date and fish-passage attributes. Published by Construction and Maintenance (Province of British Columbia) as...
386,025 lake polygons from the Freshwater Atlas, BC's 1:20,000 corporate watershed base. Published by GeoBC Branch (Province of British Columbia) as [Freshwater Atlas - Lakes](https://catalogue.dat...
37,083 double-line river polygons from the Freshwater Atlas: the wide rivers mapped as areas rather than lines. Published by GeoBC Branch (Province of British Columbia) as [Freshwater Atlas - River...
91 hospitals listed by HealthLinkBC, with address, hours and services. Published by HealthLinkBC (Province of British Columbia) as [Hospitals in BC](https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/hospita...
2,317 active and discontinued Water Survey of Canada water level and streamflow stations in BC. Published by Environmental Monitoring and Analysis Branch (Province of British Columbia) as [Hydromet...
The legally defined boundaries of BC's 160 municipalities (cities, districts, towns, villages and other local governments). Published by Governance and Structure (Province of British Columbia) as [...
930 BC Parks, ecological reserves and protected areas. Published by BC Parks (Province of British Columbia) as [BC Parks, Ecological Reserves, and Protected Areas](https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/...
19,936 recreation trail and feature lines managed by Recreation Sites and Trails BC. Published by Recreation Sites and Trails BC (Province of British Columbia) as [Recreation Line](https://catalogu...
1,914 K-12 schools with category, grade level, district and French-language program indicators. Published by Education Analytics Office (Province of British Columbia) as [BC Schools - K-12 with Fra...
130,946 groundwater wells registered in the provincial GWELLS registry, with construction, depth, yield and aquifer. Published by Watershed Stewardship and Security (Province of British Columbia) a...
200,479 historical wildfire incident locations recorded by the BC Wildfire Service, with cause, year, size and response. Published by BC Wildfire Service (Province of British Columbia) as [BC Wildf...
24,751 mapped historical wildfire perimeters from the BC Wildfire Service. Published by BC Wildfire Service (Province of British Columbia) as [BC Wildfire Fire Perimeters - Historical](https://cata...
