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2010 NS Civic Addressing Strategy Civic Addressing Base Business PDF icon Download (225.37 KB) February, 2010
2011 GNBC Principles & Procedures Place Names Base Standards PDF icon Download (1.61 MB) December, 2011
2014 Geomatics Strategy GeoNOVA Base Business PDF icon Download (1.83 MB) January, 2014
Adding Civic Points Quick Guide Civic Addressing Base Guides PDF icon Download (477.91 KB) June, 2013
Adding New Street Names Quick Guide Civic Addressing Base Guides PDF icon Download (426.36 KB) December, 2012
Adding New Streets Quick Guide Civic Addressing Base Guides PDF icon Download (449 KB) October, 2012
Best Practice for the Maintenance of Spatial Civic Address Data Civic Addressing Base Standards PDF icon Download (1012.42 KB) June, 2015
Best Practice Guidelines for the Addressing of Rails, Trails & Pipelines Civic Addressing Base Standards PDF icon Download (570.73 KB) March, 2008
Best Practices for GNSS NRTK Service Providers 2016 Spatial Referencing Location Business PDF icon Download (2.33 MB) March, 2016
Civic Address User's Guide Civic Addressing Base Guides PDF icon Download (1.2 MB) August, 2016
Civic Address User's Guide - Appendix A "Civic Address File Schema" Civic Addressing Base Specifications PDF icon Download (1.71 MB) October, 2016
Civic Address User's Guide - Appendix B "Nova Scotia Road Network (NSRN) " Civic Addressing Base Guides PDF icon Download (619.78 KB) November, 2016
Client & Stakeholder Engagement - NS Base Mapping GeoNOVA Base Business PDF icon Download (1000.14 KB) July, 2015
Commission de toponymie du Canada - Plan stratégique 2014 Place Names Base Business PDF icon Download (265.95 KB) April, 2015
Data Distribution Strategy Client Services Base Business PDF icon Download (56.95 KB) April, 1995
Editing Civic Points Quick Guide Civic Addressing Base Guides PDF icon Download (646.06 KB) January, 2000
Editing Street Names Quick Guide Civic Addressing Base Guides PDF icon Download (489.21 KB) June, 2013
Enabling High Accuracy, Position Monitoring of Sable Island Through the Nova Scotia Coordinate Referencing System Spatial Referencing Location Business PDF icon Download (1.98 MB) July, 2016
Enabling Innovation Through Geodetic Technologies: A Provincial Perspective Spatial Referencing Location Media PDF icon Download (771.37 KB) December, 2016
Geographical Names Board of Canada - Strategic Plan 2014 Place Names Base Business PDF icon Download (255.63 KB) April, 2015
GeoPulse Spring 2015 GeoNOVA GeoAwareness Media PDF icon Download (820.06 KB) May, 2015
GIS Official Price List Client Services Base Business PDF icon Download (401.74 KB) January, 2017
Guide Sign Installation at Intersections (Civic) Provincial Transportation (TIR) Transportation Standards PDF icon Download (4.29 MB) August, 2012
Large Scale Mapping Policy for Nova Scotia Base Mapping Base Business PDF icon Download (51.21 KB) March, 2015
LIDAR Strategic Directions Report Base Mapping Base Business PDF icon Download (6.48 MB) March, 2015
Location Based Address Standard (CIO) Civic Addressing Base Business PDF icon Download (383.05 KB) April, 2015
Modernization of the NS Coordinate Referencing System Through Active Control Technology Spatial Referencing Location Media PDF icon Download (1.68 MB) February, 2016
Nova Scotia Geographic Metadata Catalogue Profile GeoNOVA All Themes Standards PDF icon Download (329.91 KB) December, 2005
Nova Scotia Land Use Classification System - User's Guide GeoNOVA All Themes Standards PDF icon Download (6.45 MB) March, 1997
Nova Scotia Metadata Repository Abbreviated Profile GeoNOVA All Themes Standards PDF icon Download (201.91 KB) December, 2005
NS Aerial Photography Collections Brochure Base Mapping Base Media PDF icon Download (2.08 MB) May, 2015
NS Civic Address Finder Guide (Public) Civic Addressing Base Guides PDF icon Download (686.36 KB) March, 2014
NS Civic Address Finder Guide (Secure) Civic Addressing Base Guides PDF icon Download (1007.59 KB) March, 2014
NS Civic Addressing - FAQs Civic Addressing Base FAQs PDF icon Download (181.79 KB) April, 2015
NS Civic Addressing Brochure Civic Addressing Base Media PDF icon Download (1.44 MB) April, 2015
NS Geographic Name Change Application Form Place Names Base Business PDF icon Download (139.44 KB) December, 2024
NS Geographic Naming Process Place Names Base Business PDF icon Download (560.7 KB) August, 2023
NS Geospatial Infrastructure Theme Categories GeoNOVA All Themes Business PDF icon Download (122.1 KB) October, 2020
NS Place Names Brochure Place Names Base Media PDF icon Download (3.32 MB) April, 2015
NSCAF Download Utility Guide Civic Addressing Base Guides PDF icon Download (1.49 MB) June, 2012
NSCAF Web Editor Guide Civic Addressing Base Guides PDF icon Download (1.83 MB) March, 2014
NSCRS Update April 2016 Spatial Referencing Location Business PDF icon Download (291.12 KB) April, 2016
NSCRS Tech Support TS_0001: VERTICAL REFERENCE SYSTEMS Spatial Referencing Location FAQs PDF icon Download (462.82 KB) January, 2016
NSCRS Tech Support TS_0002: NS ACTIVE CONTROL STATIONS NETWORK Spatial Referencing Location FAQs PDF icon Download (803.81 KB) January, 2016
NSCRS Tech Support TS_0003: SABLE ISLAND Spatial Referencing Location FAQs PDF icon Download (514.69 KB) January, 2016
NSCRS Tech Support TS_0004: PROJECTIONS IN NOVA SCOTIA Spatial Referencing Location FAQs PDF icon Download (547.3 KB) February, 2016
NSCRS Tech Support TS_0005: DATA SUBMISSIONS Spatial Referencing Location FAQs PDF icon Download (617.17 KB) January, 2016
NSCRS Tech Support TS_0006: SCALE FACTORS Spatial Referencing Location FAQs PDF icon Download (750.04 KB) September, 2016
NSCRS Tech Support TS_0007: NAD83 (CSRS) Spatial Referencing Location FAQs PDF icon Download (792.76 KB) January, 2016
NSCRS Tech Support TS_0008: GNSS PERFORMANCE ISSUES Spatial Referencing Location FAQs PDF icon Download (379.95 KB) January, 2016
NSCRS Tech Support TS_0009: GRID SHIFT FILES Spatial Referencing Location FAQs PDF icon Download (498.23 KB) February, 2016
NSCRS Tech Support TS_000_10: LOCALIZATION Spatial Referencing Location FAQs PDF icon Download (501.27 KB) February, 2016
NSCRS Update December 2015 Spatial Referencing Location Business PDF icon Download (200.53 KB) December, 2014
NSCRS Update December 2016 Spatial Referencing Location Business PDF icon Download (362.38 KB) December, 2016
NSCRS Update January 2016 Spatial Referencing Location Business PDF icon Download (149.93 KB) January, 2016
NSCRS Update May 2016 Spatial Referencing Location Business PDF icon Download (195.07 KB) May, 2016
NSCRS Update October 2016 Spatial Referencing Location Business PDF icon Download (307.12 KB) December, 2016
NSCRS Updates - Spring 2021 Spatial Referencing Location Business PDF icon Download (231.14 KB) July, 2021
Orthophotography Brochure Base Mapping Base Media PDF icon Download (4.33 MB) March, 2015
Policy Guide Signing at Intersections (Civic) Provincial Transportation (TIR) Transportation Standards PDF icon Download (40.11 KB) January, 2006
Protection of Nova Scotia Control Monuments Spatial Referencing Location Guides PDF icon Download (294.1 KB) June, 2016
Provincially Owned Road Naming Policy (Civic) Provincial Transportation (TIR) Transportation Standards PDF icon Download (28.38 KB) July, 2014
Provincially Owned Road Naming Procedure (Civic) Provincial Transportation (TIR) Transportation Standards PDF icon Download (31.16 KB) April, 2011
Provincially Owned Road Naming Process & Civic Addressing (2016) Civic Addressing Base Business PDF icon Download (1.05 MB) June, 2016
Qualifications for Contributing to NSCRS Maintenance - Policy 2016 Spatial Referencing Location Guides PDF icon Download (289.54 KB) June, 2016
Spatial Referencing Brochure Spatial Referencing Base Media PDF icon Download (2.25 MB) April, 2015
Spatial Referencing FAQs Spatial Referencing Base FAQs PDF icon Download (416.49 KB) January, 2015
Spatial Referencing Policy (2011) Spatial Referencing Location Business PDF icon Download (898.08 KB) March, 2015
Spatial Referencing Policy for Nova Scotia (1995) Spatial Referencing Base Business PDF icon Download (66.93 KB) April, 1995
Spatial Referencing Policy for Nova Scotia (2006) Spatial Referencing Location Business PDF icon Download (113.71 KB) March, 2015
Street Name Change Quick Guide Civic Addressing Base Guides PDF icon Download (459.75 KB) January, 2013
Technical Considerations for Modernizing Nova Scotia's Coordinate Referencing System Spatial Referencing Location Media PDF icon Download (847.23 KB) September, 2016
The Evolution of Nova Scotia Coordinate Referencing Systems Spatial Referencing Location Media PDF icon Download (1.25 MB) February, 2016
Topographic Base Mapping Brochure Base Mapping Base Media PDF icon Download (3.98 MB) April, 2015
Topographic Mapping Strategy Base Mapping Base Business PDF icon Download (5.35 MB) March, 2015
Who Provides NCACS NRTK Services in Nova Scotia Spatial Referencing Location Business PDF icon Download (298.7 KB) August, 2016