Welcome

Welcome to the new Community Mapping Network (CMN) website. The CMN helps communities in British Columbia and Canada map sensitive habitats and species distribution. Information is integrated from many sources to assist landuse planning and is freely available in over sixty user friendly atlases. The atlases have links to local and remote databases, WMS sources and geo-referenced video. The CMN supports Sensitive Habitat Inventory and Mapping (SHIM) projects and provides customized data entry, digitizing and other tools. By providing accurate and up to date information, the CMN and its many partners will help plan sustainable communities. Continue reading about the Community Mapping Network
Please note: CMN has new web atlases that work on Macs and PCs without a browser plug-in. Some original CMN atlases (to be revised soon) can only be viewed on a PC and still require a free browser plug-in. Get free plug-in here.
Using our new Home Page Map: You can quickly navigate to partner atlases. You can zoom-in with a left mouse double click and zoom-out with a right mouse double click. You may have to slow down the click speed in your mouse preferences to make it work easily or just double click very fast!

Quick links to Partner atlases on the Community Mapping Network

Click on a place marker to learn more and link to that Partner's atlas.

Choose an Atlas:

1) Select from our list:

View our atlases by type:

Species and Habitat Mapping (28%)

Community Mapping (20%)

Community Involvement & Stewardship (19%)

Environmental Indicators and Monitoring (19%)

Species (3%)

Invasive species (3%)

Environmental contaminants (3%)

Green Mapping (3%)

Regulatory (1%)

Cultural (1%)

Our top 12 most popular atlases:

Sensitive Habitat Inventory and Mapping (SHIM) (5%)

Georgia Basin Habitat Atlas (4%)

Abbotsford Watershed Atlas (3%)

Pacific Coastal Resources Atlas for British Columbia (3%)

BC Grasslands (3%)

Burrard Inlet Environmental Action Program & Fraser River Estuary Management Plan Atlas (3%)

Invasive Species - Spartina.ca (3%)

Anglican Parish Community Mapping Project (3%)

BCIT FWR SHIM (2%)

Columbia Shuswap Regional District Watershed Atlas (2%)

Wildlife Tree Stewardship (2%)

Sunshine Coast Habitat Atlas (2%)

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Latest News

17th Nov '09

BIEAP-FREMP joined in an updated Atlas of Intertidal Habitat

The Burrard Inlet Environmental Action Program and the Fraser Rivers Estuary Management Plan are now combined in an updated habitat atlas.

17th Nov '09

The Community Greenmap on CMN is growing!

This Community Greenmap is a member of the International Green Map System (GMS). A community green map becomes a map of a community’s home, showing the

15th Oct '09

A Conservation Lands Atlas for British Columbia is now available on CMN

The BC NGO Conservation Lands Atlas is a joint effort to collect the spatial boundaries of all conserved lands secured by Non Governmental Organizations (NGO) and the Canadian Wildlife Service (CWS

15th Jul '09

Shuswap Lake shoreline mapping project.

The Community Mapping Network assisted in the foreshore inventory and mapping project for Shuswap Lake. Docks were the most common human-made item with a total of 2,789.

26th May '09

BC Eelgrass Atlas upgraded

The BC Eelgrass atlas is upgraded. It is now available to both PCs and MACs. In addition, the database is upgraded to use spatial oracle. There are a many new tools for

03rd Apr '09

Aquatic Information Partnership (AIP)

A new Aquatic Information Partnership (AIP) launches on CMN. There will be new AIP developments over the coming months - with new links to other components soon.

28th Nov '08

New Georgia Strait Alliance Atlas to assist monitoring efforts in the Georgia Strait

A new on-line system through the Community Mapping Network allows volunteers to enter and manage the data they collect, as well as allowing others access to the data.

21st Sep '08

(Draft) North Thompson Sustainable Watershed Atlas

A new Draft Atlas is underway entitled "North Thompson Sustainable Watershed Atlas" "Sharing information and resources to improve the capacity of decision makers within the context of achieving a

20th Sep '08

Columbia Shuswap Regional District Watershed Atlas

New colour orthophotography has just been captured for the entire perimeter of Shuswap, Little Shuswap, and Mara Lakes. In addition several rivers were also photographed.

15th Apr '08

FREMP atlas

The FREMP atlas is an interactive on-line map hosted by the Community Mapping Network (CMN). This is the link to the Atlas: http://204.244.79.12/mapguide2009/fremp/Intro%20Disclaimer.html