Named geographic features

Named geographic features Data set contains geographical referencing information like: * type of feature or place * location coordinates * geographic township * municipal and map references Also contains places and background information behind their official naming like: * name status * naming date * name origin * naming history This layer used to be distributed under the name "Geographic Name Extent" but was modified to "Geographic Named Extent" in November 2011. [About Geographic Names](https://www.ontario.ca/page/geographic-names) 2025-04-23 Government of Ontario Economics and IndustryEconomy and BusinessEnvironment and Natural ResourcesGovernmentGovernment information Geographic Names Ontario - DocumentationDOCX https://data.ontario.ca/dataset/c3c5e4c3-58ba-4fd1-8f04-a91cd3704219/resource/30b3efa4-e302-41ca-bd85-c8a77e935593/download/geographic_names_ontario_-_documentation.docx Geographic Names Ontario (extracted from geohub)ESRI REST https://ws.lioservices.lrc.gov.on.ca/arcgis2/rest/services/LIO_OPEN_DATA/LIO_Open09/MapServer/36 Geographic Names Ontario (extracted from geohub)ESRI REST https://ws.lioservices.lrc.gov.on.ca/arcgis2/rest/services/LIO_OPEN_DATA/LIO_Open09/MapServer/36 Access to Named geographic featuresHTML https://geohub.lio.gov.on.ca/datasets/geographic-names-ontario Accéder à la page Éléments géographiques nommésHTML https://geohub-fr.lio.gov.on.ca/datasets/%C3%A9l%C3%A9ments-g%C3%A9ographiques-nomm%C3%A9s Geographic Names Ontario - Data DescriptionPDF https://data.ontario.ca/dataset/c3c5e4c3-58ba-4fd1-8f04-a91cd3704219/resource/9029a96c-8c8f-4626-b198-5a6ebfcc42f9/download/geographic_names_ontario_-_data_description.pdf Complete Shapefile (extracted from geohub)ZIP https://ws.gisetl.lrc.gov.on.ca/fmedatadownload/Packages/GEONAMOD.zip Complete File Geodatabase (extracted from geohub)ZIP https://ws.gisetl.lrc.gov.on.ca/fmedatadownload/Packages/fgdb/GEONAMOD.zip QGIS Layer Definition File (.qlr) (extracted from geohub)other https://www.publicdocs.mnr.gov.on.ca/mirb/lio-open-qlr-eng/geographic-names-ontario.qlr

Data set contains geographical referencing information like: * type of feature or place * location coordinates * geographic township * municipal and map references Also contains places and background information behind their official naming like: * name status * naming date * name origin * naming history This layer used to be distributed under the name "Geographic Name Extent" but was modified to "Geographic Named Extent" in November 2011. About Geographic Names

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