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OMAFRA Agricultural Land Use

Description:

This data resource, provided by the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food, and Rural Affairs provides agricultural-type land use.  Classifications include agricultural farming such as field vegetables, corn, grain, tobacco, sod, as well as other uses such as recreation, nursery, pastured woodlots and more.  The data set was originally received in 2006 and consisted of one shape file that covered most of Southern Ontario.

On April 5, 2010 the Geospatial Centre received the same data set that is expanded to cover all of Southern Ontario. Agricultural Land Use file that Land Information Ontario that covers all of Southern Ontario.

Land use systems in this data set are defined as:

Field Crop System: continuous row crops, corn system, mixed system (rotation of grain, corn or beans, and hay), grain system, hay system, pasture system, and grazing system

Fruit and Grape System: orchard

Speciality Agriculture: extensive field vegetables, market gardens/truck farms, tobacco system, nursery

Non-System Land Uses: idle agricultural land (5-10 years), idle agricultural land (over 10 years), woodland/lots, pastured woodland/lots, reforestation, built-up/urban, swamp/marsh/bog, extraction1 (pits and quarries), extraction2 (topsoil removal), sod farms, recreation, water

For more information please consult this report: Agricultural Resource Inventory: A Report Prepared by Soil and Water Management Branch, OMAFRA (Toronto: 1983, revised 1988). A copy of this report is available in the University Map Library: G3461 .J15 s50 .O5x

The resource includes the following Land Use data:

 

OMAFRA Land Use Data
built up/ urban
idle agricultural land (5-10 years)
recreation
continuous row crops
idle agricultural land (over 10 years)
reforestation
corn system
market gardens/ truck farms
sod farms
extensive field vegetatlbes
mixed system
swamp/ marsh/ bog
extraction type 1 & 2
nursery
tobacco system
grain system
orchard
water
grazing system
pasture system
Woodlots
hay system
pastured woodlots

 

Spatial Reference and Data Type:

These data sets are available in geographic (lat/long) co-ordinates; horizontal datum is NAD 83, zone 17. These data are stored as Esri shapefiles. Other data formats can be accommodated, as the Geospatial Centre has access to a number of conversion utilities.

Data Access:

In order to access this data set, please visit the Geospatial Centre Reference Desk during reference hours.  in Environment 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.

Data Manipulation:

There are public workstations in the Geospatial Centre 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.

Data Output:

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.

Use Restrictions/Licensing/Copyright:

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 Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food, and Rural Affairs should be acknowledged on any derivative product, such as a map or an image.

Citation:

OMAFRA: Land Use [computer file]. Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food, and Rural Affairs, [1988].

Sample View of the Data:

Omafra

, Library Assistant
May 30, 2012