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
Also available through Scholars GeoPortal, this vector data resource provides topographic and planning information for the area encompassed by the City of Hamilton. This includes former cities of Hamilton, Flamborough, Dundas, Ancaster, Stoney Creek and Glanbrook. These 2006 - 2026 datasets were provided to the Geospatial Centre by the City of Hamilton. Updated datasets are available via the Open Hamilton website.
The Geospatial Centre has coverage for the following:
- access to housing waitlist
- accommodations
- addresses
- adverse water quality incidents
- air monitoring sites
- airport and airport boundary
- alleys centerline
- arenas
- average (daily traffic count, daily wastewater treated, daily water production, market rent)
- bike parking
- bikeways
- beach water quality results
- beaches
- bikeways
- bridges
- bus stops
- building (footprints, improvement areas, permits)
- campgrounds
- cemeteries
- census (ethnicity, health behaviour, health care, health status, labour force, language, population)
- children services
- chronic homelessness
- citizens served
- city boundaries
- city (credit rating, enrichment fund applicants, growth target employment, growth target population, employment equity survey, properties)
- city play lots
- city pools
- city waterfalls
- code zero and ER times
- college/ universities
- combined sewer overflow events
- commercial (corridor community improvement project, boundaries, downtown, improvement project areas, safety zones, wide greenhouse gas emissions)
- conservation authorities
- contours (1 metre)
- council expense
- COVID-19 case counts by census tract
- CSWB data dashboard
- curbside back bag
- curbside garbage
- dental clinic access
- development applications
- digital terrain model (DTM) (10 metre and 20 metre)
- direction arrow
- drinking fountains
- economic diversification score
- educational institutions
- election (advanced poll, locations, poll boundaries)
- electric vehicle charging stations
- emergency response repairs completed within 48 hours
- emergency response times (table)
- employee turnover
- employment lands
- environmentally sensitive areas boundaries
- escarpment
- film permits
- fire (building structure fires, home fire safety education program, hydrants, incident types, public events, total response, vulnerable occupancy incidents, stations)
- fire stations
- food safety inspections special event
- fraud and waste audit
- golf courses
- Hamilton bike share incorporated hubs
- Hamilton bike share incorporated services area
- Hamilton public library services
- Hamilton child and youth network decision support
- health behaviours for Hamilton
- heat related illness reporting data
- heritage properties
- horticulture assets
- hospitals
- housing placements
- HSR annual ridership (table)
- HSR monthly ridership (table)
- HSR (bus distance travelled between preventable collisions, bus on-time service, bus routes, bus stops, cancelled service hours)
- inbound calls
- inflow outflow of homelessness
- internet performance by FSA
- lakes
- land use (2016)
- libraries
- licensed (cigarettes, food establishments, food shop basic, kennels and pet shops, limousines, lodging houses, mobile food service vehicles, mobile sign leasing and rental businesses, places of amusement, public garages, public halls, rental housing units, residential care facilities, salvage yards, second-hand shops, trade contractors and masters, tree cutter)
- licensed real housing units
- live music venues
- long term care facilities
- long term care satisfaction
- major lake fill
- missed curbside collection inquiries
- municipal boundaries
- municipal parking lots
- municipal service centres
- museums/ galleries
- needle disposal drop boxes
- neighbourhood
- neighbourhood boundaries
- neighbourhood speed reduction zones
- non-residential assessment percentage of total assessment
- Ontario Works (assessment time, assistance by ward, beneficiaries, employment earnings, exits, exits employment, new applications)
- open data statistics
- Our People Survey (survey indexes, overall employee response rate)
- outdoor events on city property
- overall waterman and water service line repairs and replacements
- paramedics (code zero duration, code zero events, events responses and transport, reason for call, target response times, transfer of care)
- parks
- park sports field
- park washroom
- parking meters
- parking lots
- parkland
- pedestrian crossovers and features
- places of worship
- planning units
- planning applications reported since 2023 (quarterly)
- police stations
- pothole repair
- public art and monuments
- public sector energy consumption and greenhouse gas emission reporting (table)
- public Wi-Fi locations
- railways: bridge, line, tunnel
- recreational community centres
- recreational pathways
- red light cameras
- registered cooling towers
- residential care (senior care facilities and retirement homes)
- residential fire causes (table), residential fires without working smoke alarms, residential waste diversion
- respiratory and enteric outbreaks (table)
- rivers
- road (access ramps, edge, intersections, patrol compliance, sidewalk, roundabouts)
- roads and road features (i.e. ramps, bridges, tunnels, casings, centre line)
- rural boundary and settlement areas
- sanitation sewer wastewater catchment areas
- scale of homelessness
- schools
- senior leadership expenses
- settlements
- sewer (lateral repairs and replacements, lift station, manhole/node/main, valve, flow arrows, treatment plants)
- shelter beds available (table)
- shelter occupancy (table)
- shorelines
- sidewalks
- spray pads
- status of COVID-19 cases in Hamilton
- stormwater management facilities
- stops signs and stop-ahead signs
- street (centreline, light inspections, light poles, luminaries)
- surface water quality program
- tax arrears as a percentage of the levy
- temporary road closures
- tourism points of interest
- traffic
- traffic (broadband radios, collisions, pavement marking lines, pavement marking shapes, pavement marking symbols, signals, speed humps)
- trails
- transit service areas
- transit routes
- transmission lines
- tree inventory
- trees planted
- truck route (aggregated data, network, statistics)
- unique shelter users
- urban boundaries
- vacant building registry
- volume of wastewater bypassed
- voter turnout by ward
- water bodies
- ward boundaries
- waste collection by address
- waste landfills and transfer stations
- wastewater treatment plant bypass events
- water bodies
- water course
- water hydrants, branches, mains, nodes, valves
- water pressure district
- water reservoirs
- water storage tanks
- 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 Hamilton 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 Hamilton Municipal Data [computer file]. Hamilton, Ontario : The City of Hamiltion Department of Information Technology Services, [2016].
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