Nova Scotia Maps & Mapping Resources

Although Geomatics Association of Nova Scotia does not actually create or provide any online maps or mapping resources, we do maintain a growing list of Nova Scotia mapping resources that we are aware of and is freely available to the geospatial community to use online or download. 

If you find any problems with any of the links below or know of some other good resources that have not included then please let us know so we can make that information available to the Nova Scotia geospatial community.

Nova Scotia Interactive Web Maps

• Nova Scotia Wind Atlas
• Geology of Nova Scotia
  
• Nova Scotia Ground Water
• ViewPoint.ca, Nova Scotia's Largest Real Estate database with interactive map 
  
• Nova Scotia Spatial Referencing Viewer - use to search for Nova Scotia Survey Monuments
  
• Nova Scotia Civic Address Finder - use to search for civic addresses in Nova Scotia
• Nova Scotia Data Locator - use to find digital, paper or aerial photographic products from the Province of Nova Scotia and also an online tool for downloading free 1:10,000 topographic data from the Nova Scotia Topographic Database
• Nova Scotia Base Maps from the Geography Network
• Mineral Resources Land-Use Atlas - on-line interactive map created from planimetric (1:50 000 scale) Mineral Resource Land-Use (MRLU) maps
  
• Map for Viewing Potential for Radon in Indoor Air
  
• Nova Scotia Significant Habitats, Wetlands and Vegetation 
  
• Destination Nova Scotia Interactive Map - to help with planning a trip in Southwest Nova Scotia
  
• Elections Nova Scotia - electorial district finder
• Nova Scotia Gold Map
• Interactive Map of Truro
• Interactive Map highlighting What to Do & Where to Eat in Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia Maps

• Crown Land Index Maps - use to download low resolution maps showing the location of crown land grants in Nova Scotia (issued between 1750 and 1850)
  
• Mineral Resources Land-Use Atlas - planimetric (1:50 000 scale) Mineral Resource Land-Use (MRLU) maps
  
• Potential for Uranium and Related Radionuclides in Groundwater in Nova Scotia
  
• Geoscience Maps, Databases and Images 
  
• Maps of electoral districts in Nova Scotia
  
• Maps of Pictou County
• Maps of Windsor & Area
• Snowmobilers Association of Nova Scotia - PDF maps & GPS data
  
• Maps of Yarmouth & Acadian Shores
  
• Nova Scotia Solar Resource Maps
  
• Nova Scotia Color Shaded Relief Radarsat Map
  
• Impervious Surface Mapping of NS
  
• Nova Scotia Energy Map (and details to accompany map)
• Nova Scotia County Boundaries - a variety of PDF maps
• HRM Printable Maps - maps in HRM region that contain streets and other features such as points of interest where applicable and walking trails and designed to be printed on 8.5 x 11 or 11x17 paper

Historic Nova Scotia Maps

• Crown Land Index Maps - use to download low resolution maps showing the location of crown land grants in Nova Scotia (issued between 1750 and 1850)
  
• Nova Scotia Archives - contains several scanned maps and plans from the 1700s, 1800s and early 1900s
  
• Nova Scotia from the Air - The Richard McCully Aerial Photograph Collection, 1931
  
• 1889 New Glasgow Map
  
• 1879 Perspective View of Halifax - by A. Ruger
• David Rumsey Cartographic Collection
  
• Illustrated historical atlas of Pictou County