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City of Toronto Digital Property Data Maps

Description:

This data resource consists of 933 individual tiles that collectively cover the City of Toronto. The data sets were provided to the Library by the City of Toronto, Survey and Mapping Services, in April 2005. Acquired as a set of AutoCAD drawings, this is a hybrid product combining elements of topographic and parcel mapping; features include property boundaries, building envelopes, railway lines, major watercourses and much more. Please see the table below for all available features.   Layers shown in bold in the table below are also available as seamless coverages for downtown Toronto.  Nominal scale of these features is 1:2,000. You may wish to consult this graphic index for individual tile numbers.

Received on 24 May 2011 from the Geospatial Competency Centre, Mapping Services, City of Toronto, an updated set of tiled Toronto Property Data maps (PDMs) with print date of Feb 2011. This data set has 921 tiles available in DWG format and individual tile numbers can be found by using the graphic index. AutoCAD files were coverted to shapefile format, then merged to form a seamless feature for the City of Toronto.

Property Data Maps

Bridges
Light Standards

Street Car Tracks

Buildings
Miscellaneous Structures

Street Lines

Catchment Basins

Pathways
Subway Tracks

Curbs
Pedestrian Street Light
Telephone Poles
Electric Poles

Property Lines

Traffic Lights

Garages

Railways

Traffic Light Standards

General Poles

Rivers, streams, ponds

Walkways
Hydrants

Shorelines
Hydrographics
Spot Heights

Received on 24 May 2011 by secure ftp from Geospatial Competency Centre, Mapping Services, City of Toronto, an updated set of tiled Toronto Property Data maps (PDMs) with print date of Feb 2011.

The City provides the following description of this product:
Property Data Maps: elements from parcel mapping, OAR,and TCL 2011 and elements from ESM 2005. There are 921 files for the entire city, set in DWG format.
This set of maps is a hybrid product, combining elements of topographic (ESM), parcel mapping, the One Address Repository (OAR), and Toronto Street Centreline (TCL).

Coordinate system: Modified Transverse Mercator, zone 10, NAD27. Format is DWG.

Datafiles are stored on NAS in: \toronto\PDM_dwg_Feb2011. Library taff will endeavour to convert the projection and transform the datum to UTM zone 17, NAD83 and merge the 921 DWG files into a seamless shapefile for the entire City.

Spatial Reference and Data Type:

This data set is available in UTM co-ordinates; horizontal datum is NAD 83. These data are stored as AutoCAD .dwg files. Other data formats can be accommodated, as the Map Library 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 and Storage:

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 data 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. Patrons may use the library's colour inkjet printers to print map views or tabular views of the data.

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 Data [computer file]. Toronto, Ontario: City of Toronto, Geospatial Competency Centre [2011].

Sample View of the Data

PDM

, Library Assistant

June 4, 2012

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