Hectares BC Update History

  • February 03, 2012
    • Restored HaBC from multiple raid failure
    • Species & Ecological Communities data are being recompiled and will be available February 24th.
  • December 08, 2011
    • Updated all Mountain Pine Beetle Data and added years 2007 - 2011
    • Updated National Parks
  • November 24, 2011
    • Bug fix for "Show Me Where..." exports (#803)
  • September 27, 2011
    • Updated Parks & Protected Areas Dataset
  • August 5, 2011
    • Fixed Batch Queue Bug related to KML Single-Layer Themes export
  • August 4, 2011
    • Updated Community Watersheds
    • Updated Treaty Lands
  • July 28, 2011
    • Added Land Reserves
    • Added Special Conservation Areas
  • July 19, 2011
    • Added Wildlife Management Units
    • Updated Wildlife Habitat Areas, moved Specified Areas for Species at Risk to new layer
    • Updated Ungulate Winter Range
    • Updates Old Growth Management Areas
  • Map 20, 2011
    • Fixed missing metadata files for North and South Tweedsmuir parks
  • April 26, 2011
    • Addition of Freshwater Portfolio and Terrestrial Portfolio Layers
    • Updates to Landscape Units, Natural Resource Sector Administrative Regions, and Natural Area Conservation Plan (NACP) Boundaries Layers
  • April 13, 2011
    • Addition of Disturbance Year and Timber Harvest Land Base Layers
    • Updates to the metadata Ecological Aquatic Units of BC Lakes and Rivers datasets.
    • Moved wetland classifications outside of the EAU tree.
  • March 19, 2011
    • Addition of Valley Bottom Flatness and Relative Hydrological Slope Position Layers
  • March 1, 2011
    • Batch processor bug fix (not cleaning up temporary database tables)
  • November 5, 2010
    • Updated Conservation Lands Dataset
  • September 16, 2010
    • Fixed Chrome / Safari Bug (#786)
  • August 27, 2010
    • New Datasets:
      • Firezones & Firecenters
      • Natural Resource Sector Administrative Boundaries (Regions & SubRegions?)
      • Forest Ownership
    • Update Datasets:
      • Vegetation Resources Inventory (VRI)
      • Treaty Lands
  • August 04, 2010
    • Placenames search bug fix
    • Welcome page update (modifications of logos)
  • March 3, 2010
    • How Much table drag and drop bug fix.
    • Search results bug fix
  • January 04, 2010
    • Addition of 22 climate datasets from the CGCM2-A2x global climate models for the 2020s decade.
  • January 26, 2010
    • New Distance to Coastline dataset.
    • New "Zoom to Location" dialog box.
    • Admin interface bug fixes.
    • Fix missing units in query box (for value layers).
  • December 11, 2009
    • New database tables for improving Species (AoI) and Ecological Communities datasets
    • Improved datadrill performance.
    • New zoom to place name functionality.
    • Ability to zoom to lat/long defined as dd/mm/ss.
    • Bug fix in layer tree / metadata dialog box link.
  • December 10, 2009
    • New Datasets:
      • High Priority Species (Areas of Interest) Counts
      • High Priority Species (Areas of Interest) Percentile
      • Mapsheets (1:5L. 1:10K, 1:20K, 1:50K)
    • Updated Datasets:
      • Updated Natural Areas Conservation Plan Boundaries Dataset
    • Fixed Datasets:
      • VRI Age dataset no longer has age 0. Age 0 has been converted to no data values.
  • November 28, 2009
    • Application updates:
      • Addition of Ecological Communities & update to data drill export format.
      • Update 'How Much...' export the prevent excel exports with more than 256 columns and added xlsx format.
      • Added a virtual species export warning for summary export.
      • Addition of "Perform Data Drill Option" to the zoom to dialog
  • October 26, 2009
    • Application updates:
      • Improved performance of the data tree (FastTree? Widget);
      • Update summary export the prevent excel exports with more than 256 columns
      • Added a virtual species export warning for summary export.
  • October 22, 2009
    • New Datasets:
      • Ecological Communities (Areas of Interest)
      • Species (Areas of Interest)
  • September 23, 2009
    • New Datasets:
      • Ecological Aquatic Units
      • Fresh Water Impacts
        • Obstructions
        • Road / Stream Crossings
      • Fresh Water
        • Riparian Area
      • Conservation Prioritization
        • Irreplaceability
        • Marxan Summed Solution
        • Relative Biodiversity Index
        • Utility
  • September 11, 2009
    • Addition of New "Themes" tab
      • allows user to generate color-themed show me where queries
      • the data tree contains "Saved Themes..." to use saved themes in other queries
    • Updates to the data layers tree to include an additional icon to differential between regional and provincial datasets
    • Addition of "WMS" button on maps that allows users to add a WMS layer (in BC Albers) to any Hectares BC map (and control the transparency).
    • Addition of "Layers" button with the map button that opens/closes the layer
    • Ability to re-order layers in the layer switcher. This allows users to move WMS layers up/down.
    • Addition of "Recent Updates" panel to the Welcome page.
  • June 10, 2009
    • Addition of ILMB Regional & Subregional Boundaries
  • June 08, 2009
    • Website Update
      • http:///www.hectaresbc.org now points directly to the Hectares BC application. You can reach this wiki page from the application by using the link at the bottom of the application.
  • May 20, 2009
    • Application Update
      • various bug fixes (Administrative Units is now back on the Show Me Where tab!)
      • a new data drill dialog box
      • support for upcoming species and ecological communities layers (to be added soon).
  • May 15, 2009
    • Addition of Natural Area Conservation Plan Boundaries
  • April 3, 2009
    • Addition of Forest Regions (based of Forest Districts)
  • March 10, 2009
    • Addition of Local Health Boundaries
  • January 23, 2009
    • Addition of Distance to Point of Appraisal
    • Addition of Distance to Point of Origin
  • January 12, 2009
    • Bug fixed related to Average Site Index (VRI)
  • January 9, 2009
    • Addition of Agricultural Land Reserves
    • Addition of Provincial Forest
    • Addition of Mountain Pine Beetle Forecasts (2011, 2019)
    • Addition of Indian Reserves
  • December 5, 2008
    • Addition of Wildlife Management Areas
    • Addition of Federal Lands
    • Addition of Treaty Lands)
  • November 20, 2008
    • Addition of Municipalities
    • Addition of Community Watersheds
    • Addition of Old Growth Management Areas
    • Addition of Visual Quality Objectives
  • October 17, 2008
    • Addition of Ministry of Environment Regions (Environmental Stewardship Division)
  • August 26, 2008
    • Addition of Salmon Conservation Units
    • Addition of Climate Futures
  • July 09, 2008
    • All the climate data was updated to match the layers provided by Climate BC.