This data resource contains a full-colour MrSid orthoimage of the City of London. This image was taken in April, 2007, and has a spatial resolution of 15cm. The file size is approximately 1.1 GB. This resource was provided to the Map Library by the City of London in February, 2008.
This data set is available in UTM co-ordinates; horizontal datum is NAD 83. These data are stored as MrSid images format. Other data formats can be accommodated, as the Map Library has access to a number of conversion utilities.
In order to access these data sets, please visit the Map Reference Desk between the hours of 9:30am-12:00pm and 12:30pm-4:30pm, Monday to Friday, in Environmental Studies 1, Room 246. Library reference staff are available to provide further information about these data sets and to deliver data upon request. Under the terms of the Library's license agreement, these data sets are for use by students, faculty, and staff at the University of Waterloo only.
There are public workstations in the Map Library that provide access to GIS software, program extensions and data manipulation utilities. Patrons may use the GIS software in the library to view and manipulate the data. UW faculty, students and staff may copy these data to other media (Zip disk or CD-R) for use elsewhere.
These data may be exported from the GIS software as a bitmapped image (e.g., jpg) or may be printed as a map view using one of the library's colour printers.
This material is provided for academic, research, teaching, and personal use only. A data release agreement must be signed before the data is delivered. The City of London should be acknowledged on any derivative product, such as a map or an image.
The City of London Digital Orthophotos [computer file]. London, Ontario: The City of London, [2007].
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