Data sources and licences

Build Almanac is built from public data. Every project page names its sources and their licences, and links to them; every page links here. This page gives the credit lines the sources' licences ask for, and lists each source.

Credit lines

Placing a project at its municipality: adapted from Statistics Canada, 2021 Census – Boundary files. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.

Sources

• 2021 Census – Boundary files: census subdivisions, Statistics Canada. Licence: Open Government Licence – Canada.
• 2026 Gazetteer Files: counties and places, U.S. Census Bureau. Licence: US federal government work (public domain).
• B.C. Major Projects Inventory, Province of British Columbia. Licence: Open Government Licence – British Columbia.
• EIA-860M: Monthly Update to the Annual Electric Generator Report (planned generators), U.S. Energy Information Administration. Licence: US federal government work (public domain).
• Federal Permitting Dashboard: full dataset, Federal Permitting Improvement Steering Council and USDOT. Licence: US federal government work (public domain).
• Inventory of Major Alberta Projects, Government of Alberta. Licence: Open Government Licence – Alberta.
• Major Projects Inventory (energy and natural resources), Natural Resources Canada. Licence: Open Government Licence – Canada.
• Municipalities – Legally Defined Administrative Areas of BC, Province of British Columbia. Licence: Open Government Licence – British Columbia.
• Ontario Builds: Key Infrastructure Projects, Ontario Ministry of Infrastructure. Licence: Open Government Licence – Ontario.
• Sentinel-2 Level-2A imagery (cloud-optimised GeoTIFFs on AWS Open Data), European Union, Copernicus programme (European Space Agency); hosted by AWS Open Data, managed by Element 84. Licence: Copernicus Sentinel Data Legal Notice.
• Système électronique d'appel d'offres (SEAO): contract awards, Secrétariat du Conseil du trésor, Gouvernement du Québec. Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International.
• Tableau de bord des projets d'infrastructures (PQI), Secrétariat du Conseil du trésor du Québec. Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International.
• Value of Construction Put in Place (C30): data center series, U.S. Census Bureau. Licence: US federal government work (public domain).

Cited, not reused

These pages aren't under an open licence. Build Almanac states a few facts from them, such as a programme's published cost, and links to each page; it shows none of their text.

• Authority and public-notice pages (hand-curated), Greater Toronto Airports Authority; Edmonton Airports; Calgary Airport Authority; Port of Québec; Ministère des Transports et de la Mobilité durable (its contract notice on SEAO).
• Data-centre campus pages (hand-curated), The campus owners, municipalities, counties and state agencies named in each record.

The map

The basemap is served by OpenFreeMap, with tiles in the OpenMapTiles schema, from OpenStreetMap data, © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License. The map also shows this credit in its corner.