This data resource is provided by the Ontario Ministry of Transportation, and contains the Digital Cartographic Reference Base, version 3.0. This reference base is used to develop MTO cartographic products, such as the Official Ontario Road Map. Features are identified using an MTO code. This resource was created from the 1:100,000 provincial map series (MNR) and the county map series (MOT). The following is a list of the available coverages.
| Digital Cartographic Reference Base | ||
|---|---|---|
| Airports | Medical Centres | Rivers |
| Border Crossings | MNDM Boundary | Roads |
| Carpool Lots | Modified Transverse Mercator Zones | Service Centres |
| Communities | MTO Geographic Township Boundaries | Tourist Attractions |
| Drainage | MTO District Boundaries | Train Stations |
| Federal Electoral Boundaries | Picnic Areas | Travel Information Centres |
| Interchanges | MTO Region Boundaries | Upper Tier Roads |
| Islands | Provincial Outline | UTM Zones |
| Lakes | Parks | |
| Lower Tier Roads | Railways | |
These data sets are available in geographic (lat/long) co-ordinates; horizontal datum is NAD 83. These data are stored as .ADF files. This format is viewable in ArcMap and ArcView. 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.
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 Transportation should be acknowledged on any derivative product, such as a map or an image.
Digital Cartographic Reference Base of Ontario, Version 2.0, Geomatics Office, Ministry of Transportation, Ontario, 2000
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