Where it works, and where it does not.
Every capability, the datasets behind it, and the gaps we have not closed. This page is generated from the same source registry the API answers from, so it cannot claim a capability that has no registered dataset.
Every date says where it came from. Observed by the build that produced the data, recorded at build time by a pipeline or a person, or polled per request. A recorded date can be stale in the world while reading current here, which is why the word beside it is there. The status words are computed in your browser from those dates, so they say what the API says rather than what was true the day this page was built.
Licence terms and known gaps are written by us and appear in both languages. Publisher and dataset names appear as their custodian publishes them, so a title you read here is the one to search for on their portal.
The same document, for machines: api.unmap.dev/coverage.json
| Capability | Coverage | Freshness | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| Basemap tiles | Worldwide Web Mercator basemap, z0-14, from Protomaps planet build 20260922. Twelve styles, light and dark. The archive is the published build copied byte for byte, not a Canada cutout. | unknown | 1 |
| Timezones | Worldwide, not Canada only. An IANA timezone id for any WGS84 coordinate, and the UTC offset at a given instant. Land and ocean: the boundaries are timezone-boundary-builder's timezones-with-oceans release, and a point that misses every polygon falls back to the 15 degree nautical band for its longitude. | unknown | 2 |
| Terrain and elevation | Worldwide Web Mercator DEM and elevation, z0–12, from Mapterhorn 0.0.13, release 6. Vector contours remain Canadian, z9–13. | unknown | 3 |
| Geocoding | Canada-wide addresses, streets, localities and places, with English and French first-class on the same record. | unknown | 5 |
| Geographical names | Official Canadian geographical names, including French and, where the source carries them, Indigenous-language names in syllabics. | unknown | 1 |
| Treaty context | The Crown's published historic and modern treaty representations that cover a point, as include=treaties on geocoding. | unknown | 2 |
| Legal land descriptions | Behind the legal-land add-on: Dominion Land Survey descriptions across Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and the British Columbia Peace River block resolve to a point, and to a polygon where one was imported. NTS sheets and British Columbia parcels resolve over their own smaller extents. | unknown | 3 |
| Road routing | Canada-wide car, truck, bicycle and pedestrian routing, plus isochrones. | unknown | 1 |
| Truck restrictions (Truck Intelligence) | Authoritative government truck restrictions behind the Truck Intelligence add-on, per jurisdiction rather than nationally. Nova Scotia posted weights and Quebec truck-network access classes are conflated onto roads and proven to change a route; four Alberta municipal designated networks are loaded; Alberta's restricted bridge lists are ingested but placed only approximately. Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia closures are refreshed into a live layer every five minutes and reported on every routing mode, not only trucks. This layer is not the road events capability: that one serves British Columbia alone, and the difference is an ingestion adapter rather than a credential. `mode=truck` itself is included with normal routing on every plan and is not gated. | unknown | 21 |
| Named Canadian layers | Authoritative overlays: municipalities, protected areas, Aboriginal lands, survey grids, and the energy, agriculture, remote and mining catalogs behind add-ons. | unknown | 30 |
| Places | Canadian points of interest from the geocoding corpus, in 89 categories with English and French aliases, and in every language a source recorded a name in. | current | 1 |
| Public transit | When the national transit graph is serving, departure-time routing and isochrones run on a graph built from the Mobility Database's active Canadian GTFS feeds; a feed is routable once it passes its golden rides (128 of 138 registered feeds on 2026-10-09). The static /transit/* API (stops, departures, routes, agencies) carries the routable feeds whose licence is cleared for republication: 80 feeds in seven provinces when it was first built nationally on 2026-10-09. | unknown | 138 |
| Road events and conditions | British Columbia and Alberta. Provincial highways: closures, incidents, construction and road conditions, polled live rather than ingested on a schedule. Alberta also publishes a winter-roads feed carrying actual surface conditions, which British Columbia has no equivalent of. | unknown | 2 |
| EV charging | Charging stations are a Places category, not a separate API: query `category=ev charger` on /places/nearby. Coverage is OpenStreetMap's, measured 2026-09-17 as dense in major cities, thin along the Trans-Canada (2 to 16 per sampled town) and absent in Yellowknife and Iqaluit. | current | 1 |
