The organization maintains a structured database of mountains for all Canada with access trails and backroads.
In 2009, a project was begun to upgrade the road and trail database, taking advantage of the newer air photos currently available via Google Earth.
[citation needed] In October 2000, a major project involving about 30 volunteer editors was begun to catalog every Canadian and US mountain.
Many of these peaks had "standing names" in the previous authoritative guidebooks such as Climber's Guide to the Rocky Mountains of Canada, first published in 1921, and "A Guide to Climbing and Hiking in Southwestern British Columbia" published in 1986 by Bruce Fairley, and these were adopted by Canadian Mountain Encyclopedia.
In 2012, a major project was begun to systematically recheck every peak, now plotted on the newer mapping systems of the website.