Summary: A School District Catchment Boundary is a geographic area created for the purposes of educational administration.
Description: SD catchment boundaries are determined by School District 8, Kootenay Lake
Policy No. 461.
Boundaries are determined based upon a number of factors including geography and demographics. Boundaries were created using 1:20,000 TRIM data from
DataBC WMS base layers
and Fire Zone, Fire Department and Addressing data provided by the
Regional District of Central Kootenay (RDCK).
School District
boundary data acquired from BC Stats.
School Location,
Municipality,
First Nations,
School District Trustee Electoral Areas,
and Regional District
data acquired from DataBC.
Built on a Leaflet with all layers served using
GeoJSON (markers) and
TopoJSON (polygons).
GeoJSON and TopoJSON validated using JSONLint.
All school catchment layers digitized in QGIS
and topology run through GRASS where geometry errors were detected.
Report Bugs: Open an issue on
GitHub.
Developed by:
Dana Diotte