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East Hants Open Data

By T_mackinnon @tedmackinnon
March 27, 2016

East Hants Open Data

East Hants, Nova Scotia, Canada is a vibrant municipality between Metro Halifax and the Bay of Fundy. East Hants uses GIS technology in all their departments, from sewer, water, and road projects, to regional planning, taxation, and municipal elections. Recently they developed an online portal (Interactive East Hants) to help Nova Scotian’s explore their growing Municipality’s geospatial data sets.Municipality of East Hants Open Data

Interactive East Hants is an online mapping and open data site that provides the public with an efficient and useful way to explore the Municipality of East Hants. The website provides free access to geospatial data as a commitment to improving citizen engagement and enhancing transparency to our residents.

You are able to download spatial data to use with your own GIS software or you can create customization maps with data layers using the interactive East Hants online mapping tool. Start exploring Interactive East Hants open data, and create your own custom maps …

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By canadiangisFiled in: Data & Software, Open DataTags: custom maps, East Hants, Geospatial data, GIS, Nova Scotia, Open Data, opendata

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