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City of Toronto Municipal Data

 

Description:

This collection of data products provides topographic and municipal planning information for the area encompassed by the City of Toronto.  These data were provided to the Geospatial Centre by the City of Toronto, Geospatial Competency Centre in April-June 2005.  The following data products are available:

Data Resources for the City of Toronto
Data Data Format
Contours (1 metre) Shapefiles
Generalized Digital Terrain Model AutoCAD DWG and ASCII
Property Parcels Shapefiles
Property Data Maps AutoCAD DWG
Centreline Streets (includes streets, rivers, creeks, ramps, hydro lines, laneways, railways, shorelines, trails, walkways) Shapefiles

Zoning : includes Etobicoke, former City of Toronto and North York

Etobicoke and North York : AutoCAD dxf

Former City of Toronto : PDF


Spatial Reference and Data Type:

These data sets are available in UTM co-ordinates; horizontal datum is NAD 83.  Centreline streets is also available in MTM zone 10, NAD 27.  Other data formats can be accommodated, as the Geospatial Centre has access to a number of conversion utilities.

Data Access:

In order to access these data sets, please visit the Geospatial Centre Reference Desk during reference hours. 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 both ArcGIS and ArcView software programs, program extensions and data manipulation utilities. Patrons may use the GIS and image processing software in the library to view and manipulate the data. UW faculty, students and staff may copy these data to other media (for example: CD, DVD or Zip disc) for use elsewhere.

Data Output:

These images may be exported from ArcGIS in a choice of bitmapped formats (also known as raster graphics) including JPG, TIFF, GIF, and BMP or in a choice of vector graphics formats including AI, EPS, and SVG. Yet another option is PDF. 

Use Restrictions/Licensing/Copyright:

These data are provided for personal use for academic, research, and/or teaching purposes. Library staff will ask patrons to read and sign a data release agreement before these licensed data can be released. The City of Toronto Geospatial Competency Centre must be acknowledged on any derivative product, whether printed or electronic, including for example, a printed map, a raster or vector graphic, a web-based application, etc. Patrons are advised to fully respect the provisions of Canada's Copyright Act as well as terms and conditions imposed by the data provider.

Citation:

City of Toronto Municipal Data [computer file]. Toronto, Ontario: City of Toronto, Geospatial Competency Centre. [2003].

Sample Views of the Data:

Toronto streets, contours and parcels

Municipality of Toronto : steets, parcels, contours

Etobicoke Zoning

Etobicoke Zoning

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June 4, 2012