University Map Library

What's New at the Map Library?

An interactive map is now available showing the extent and coverage of the University Map Library's airphoto collection which consists of paper images from 1930 - 2000.

SimplyMap Canada has now been upgraded from 1.0 to 2.0. To access this new version go to: http://sm2.simplymap.com/ . Before using SimplyMap Canada, off campus users must first log onto the proxy server. Learn about the library's upcoming workshops, and browse through the Library's GeoAbstract Art Gallery.

The University Map Library provides geospatial data services to the uWaterloo academic community and houses a collection of printed cartographic resources including sheet maps, aerial photographs, and atlases. Geospatial data services include reference, instruction, and access to GIS and remote sensing data.

The geographical focus of the geospatial data and cartographic collections is the local area: e.g., Kitchener, Waterloo, Region of Waterloo, and adjacent Ontario counties. Information resources, both printed and digital, are collected increasingly less intensively the greater the distance from the local area: from southwestern Ontario, to the province of Ontario, to Canada as a whole, and so on. Significant data resources acquired by the Map Library include provincial-level environmental data, nation-wide Canadian street data, and orthoimagery for all of southwestern Ontario.

There are approximately 30,000 maps in the printed map collection, ranging in geographical extent from maps of the City of Waterloo to maps of the world. The Map Library has a collection of 50,000 aerial photographs for various parts of southwestern Ontario and has 500 atlases for Canada and for foreign countries around the world.

, Library Associate
October 19, 2011