Nova Scotia Topographic DataBase - Water Features (Line Layer)
Part of the Nova Scotia Topographic Database the Nova Scotia
Hydrographic Network (Water Features) is updated and maintained from aerial photography. Lakes, Rivers, Islands and many other features are collected and networked into a seamless relation data base. Toponyms are included in the attribute table for named hydrographic features. Hydrographic feature codes and their descriptions are provided with the
download in a NSTDB feature code table.
Data download also available via GeoNova: https://nsgi.novascotia.ca/WSF_DDS/DDS.svc/DownloadFile?tkey=fhrTtdnDvfytwLz6&id=18
Map service view also available via GeoNova: https://nsgiwa.novascotia.ca/arcgis/rest/services/BASE/BASE_NSTDB_10k_Water_UT83/MapServer?f=jsapi
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 \"novascotia-ca/nova-scotia-topographic-database-water-features-fpca-jrmt\".\"nova_scotia_topographic_database_water_features\" LIMIT 100 "} EOF
See the Splitgraph documentation for more information.