This data resource, provided by the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, shows a number of topographic coverages of the province of Ontario. This information dates from 1983, and is based on the Ontario Mineral Map. The coverages available are listed below.
| Topographic coverages of the province of Ontario | |
|---|---|
| County Boundaries | Provincial Parks |
| Drainage Lines | Railways |
| Drainage Points | Roads |
| Lambert Conformal Conic Projection Grid Lines | Township Boundaries |
| Ontario Boundaries | MNR Administrative Boundaries (1993) |
| Native Reservations | Mines |
These data sets are available in geographic (lat/long) co-ordinates; horizontal datum is NAD 27. 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.
In order to access these data sets, please visit the Geospatial Centre Reference Desk between the hours of 9:30am-12:00pm and 12:30pm-4:30pm, Monday to Friday, in the Dana Porter Library. 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.
The title of this resource in Primo, our online library catalogue, is MNR CD-ROM data set [cartographic material] and the call number is G3462. B533 199- .O5x in UML Controlled Access.
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.
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 Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources should be acknowledged on any derivative product, such as a map or an image.
The Digital Map of Ontario [computer file]. Toronto, Ontario: The Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, [2002].
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