The British Columbia Integrated Digital Electoral Atlas (INDEA)

The BC Integrated Digital Electoral Atlas (INDEA) contains a comprehensive and up-to-date network of roads and address ranges, along with other features, for the entire Province of British Columbia, Canada. It is being developed by BCS in response to requirements of Elections BC (EBC). Foremost in these requirements was the need to provide EBC with an integrated electronic dataset on which to base its management of Provincial elections.

The INDEA is housed in an IBM Informix Dynamic Server geospatial database rather than a conventional GIS. It contains an integrated network of roads, municipal boundaries, Electoral District (ED) and Voter Area (VA) boundaries, as well as extensive background data, including hydrography, railways, transmission lines, parks and Indian reserves. BCS has developed a comprehensive set of facilities for geocoding, data management and map production, all using the INDEA data. Click on one of the following links for more information on what the INDEA is and what it can do: