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Maps • Geospatial Centre

City of Toronto Municipal Data
(Core Area Only)

Description:

This data resource shows a number of municipal, planning, and recreation features within the City of Toronto core area. This data was provided by the City of Toronto Geospatial Competency Centre. The dataset contains the following coverages:

Data Resources for the City of Toronto
Airports Hydrographic (.dwg only) Roadways
Boundary (.dwg only) Misc. Planimetric Street Names
Building Footprints Railways Vegetation (.dwg only)
Contours Recreation Points Street Intersections

Spatial Reference and Data Type:

These data sets are available in UTM co-ordinates; horizontal datum is NAD 83. These data are stored as Esri shapefiles, and as AutoCAD .dwg files. 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 during regular reference hours. 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 City of Toronto, Geospatial Competency Centre should be acknowledged on any derivative product, such as a map or an image.

Citation:

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

Sample View of the Data:

Union Station, Toronto


, Library Assistant
June 4, 2012