Data access
Full access to our resources is available to current students, faculty, and staff of the University of Waterloo. To request access, please complete the Ask-Us form indicating the specific layers (shapefiles) you require. Upon completion of the data release agreement form, the dataset will be provided to you via OneDrive.
In-person consultations may also be requested through the Ask-Us form.
Description
This product from DMTI Spatial provides a detailed road and highway network for all of Canada and is current to 2025.
This resource provides a more attribute-rich version of the DMTI Streetfiles product, including such features as turning radius, gradient, points of interest features as well as general topography. Please see the DMTI Spatial web resource for more information on these datasets. A file name index (PDF) and a Data Dictionary (2021) have been prepared to aid users in navigating through DMTI folders and products.
Data set type and features are listed below.
Points of interest (POI) dataset (available by province)
- Airports
- Carpool Lots
- Cemeteries
- Cinemas
- Community Centres
- Correctional Facilities
- Education
- Fire Stations
- Forts
- Golf Courses
- Government Buildings
- Health Care Centres
- Lookouts
- Parks Sportfields
- Police Services
- Populated areas
- Religious Buildings
- Ruins
- Ski Centres
- Stadiums
- Toll booths
- Tourist Attractions
- Tracks and Trails
- Vets
- Weigh stations
Streets and other transportation dataset (available by province)
- Aerial Cableline
- Air Transport
- Embankments
- Expressways casements
- Ferry Connections
- Pedestrian Network
- Primary highways casements
- Major roads and highways
- Secondary highways casements
- Highways
- Canada/ U.S.A roads linkages
- Local road casements
- Toll Booths
- Weigh Stations
- Major roads casements
- Marina Yacht Clubs
- Municipality boundaries
- Ports
- Roads
- Rail Turntable
- Runway
- Seaplane Base
- Shipping Lanes
- Snowsheds
- Elevation nodes
- Ferry route
- Trails casements
- Transportation Stops
- Highways
Topographic dataset (available by province)
- Airports
- Arenas
- Bridges
- Building types
- Built-up areas
- Elevation
- Hydrographic structures
- Industry Resource (gas & Oil, Lumberyards, Dumps, wells, refineries, natural gas terminals, etc)
- Land use
- Pipelines and transmission - regions
- radio stations
- Railway and transit lines
- Silos
- Tanks
- Towers
- Transmission lines
- Transformer Stations
- Vegetation
- Wetlands
- Wind operated structures
Spatial reference and data type
This data set is available in geographic (lat/long) co-ordinates; horizontal datum is North American Datum (NAD) 83. 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.
Use restrictions/licensing/copyright
These data are provided for personal use for academic, research, and/or teaching purposes. A data release agreement must be agreed to before these licensed data can be released. DMTI Spatial 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
DMTI CanMap Route Logistics [computer file]. Markham, Ontario: DMTI Spatial Inc. , [2019].