Citywide Land Cover
This is a composite land cover layer created from multiple City data sources and compiled into a single seamless land cover layer in 2015. The final land cover layer was checked against the City of Calgary’s 2014 air photo at a minimum of 1:4000. Missing and/or overlapping areas were resolved manually and City parks were reviewed at 1:1000 resolution. The land cover dataset informs several City analyses, including a Habitat Condition Rating model to assess natural area park health and a structural wildlife connectivity model, where land cover resistance values act as the difficulty rankings for terrestrial wildlife movement. The dataset can also be used in analyses of open/park space contiguity.
Export geospatial file as <a href="https://data.calgary.ca/api/geospatial/as2i-6z3n?method=export&format=GeoJSON">GeoJSON</a> or <a href="https://data.calgary.ca/api/geospatial/as2i-6z3n?method=export&format=Shapefile">Shapefile</a>.
Querying over HTTP
Splitgraph serves as an HTTP API that lets you run SQL queries directly on this data to power Web applications. For example:
curl https://data.splitgraph.com/sql/query/ddn \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d@-<<EOF {"sql": " SELECT * FROM \"calgary-ca/citywide-land-cover-as2i-6z3n\".\"citywide_land_cover\" LIMIT 100 "} EOF
See the Splitgraph documentation for more information.