City of Guelph municipal data

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 vector data resource provides topographic and planning information for the area encompassed by the City of Guelph. This information was provided to the Geospatial Centre by the City of Guelph in October 2006, 2011, 2014 and 2018. More recent data is available from the Guelph Open Data site. For your convenience, 2024 has already been downloaded.

Included are the following coverages:

  • address points
  • building footprints
  • bus stops
  • city facilities
  • contours (5 metre interval)
  • double line street network
  • EMS locations
  • fire hydrants
  • fire stations
  • hydrology
  • landmarks: educational, recreational, municipal services
  • parks and park names
  • places of worship
  • police station
  • sidewalks
  • single line street network with street names
  • tree inventory
  • zoning

Spatial reference and data type

These data sets are available in Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) 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. The City of Guelph 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

The City of Guelph Municipal Data [computer file]. Guelph, Ontario: The City of Guelph Department of Information and Technology Services, [2014].

Sample view of the data

Guelph Municipal Data