Ontario Ministry of Transportation

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 data resource is provided by the Ontario Ministry of Transportation, and contains the Digital Cartographic Reference Base, version 3.0, as well as downloaded open data from 2020 and 2021. This reference base is used to develop Ontario Ministry of Transportation cartographic products, such as the Official Road Map of Ontario. Features are identified using a code listing (PDF). This resource was created from the 1:100,000 provincial map series (OMNR) and the county map series (MT). More recent data is available online via https://icorridor-mto-on-ca.hub.arcgis.com/.

The following is a list of the available coverages:

  • Airports
  • Border crossings
  • Carpool lots
  • Communities
  • Drainage
  • Federal electoral boundaries
  • Interchanges
  • Islands
  • Lakes
  • Lower tier roads
  • Medical centres
  • Boundaries (Ministry of Northern Development and Mines (MNDM))
  • Modified Transverse Mercator zones
  • Ministry of Transportation - Ontario (MTO) geographic township boundaries
  • MTO district boundaries
  • Picnic areas
  • MTO region boundaries
  • Provincial outline
  • Parks
  • Railways
  • Rivers
  • Roads
  • Service Centre
  • Tourist attractions
  • Train stations
  • Travel information centres
  • Roads (upper tier)
  • Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) zones

Recently added:

  • Travel speed
  • Ontario Railway Network
  • Ontario Trail Network
  • Electric Charging Stations
  • Go Train Stations

Spatial reference and data type

These data sets are available in geographic (lat/long) co-ordinates; horizontal datum is North American Datum (NAD) 83. These data are stored as .ADF files. Other data formats can be accommodated, as the Geospatial Centre has access to a number of conversion utilities.

Use restrictions/licensing/copyright

This material is provided for academic, research, teaching, and personal use only. A data release agreement must be agreed to before the data is delivered. The Ontario Ministry of Transportation should be acknowledged on any derivative product, such as a map or an image.

Citation

Digital Cartographic Reference Base of Ontario, Version 2.0, Geomatics Office, Ministry of Transportation, Ontario, 2000

Sample view of the data

Southern Ontario

GTA

Data courtesy of the Ontario Ministry of Transportation