City of Cambridge 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, planning, and recreation information for the area encompassed by the City of Cambridge. With the exception of contours ( 2005, 2006, 2009, 2012, 2015), this dataset for the City of Cambridge is current to 2020.

Data resources for the City of Cambridge

  • addresses
  • boundaries (municipal, neighbourhood, polling districts)
  • building footprint
  • business directory
  • contours (0.5 metre interval)
  • digital terrain model (DTM)
  • GRCA rain gauge station
  • heritage properties
  • landmarks (police, firestations, churches, schools, etc.)
  • land use (agriculture, commercial, community core area, industrial, institutional, open space, residential)
  • municipal boundary
  • neighbourhoods
  • official plan (industrial, commercial, residential, agricultural, open space)
  • parcels
  • parks
  • pavement markings
  • polling boundaries
  • rain gauges
  • rain gauge station (GRCA)
  • sanitation (lift stations, manholes, pipes, flow monitoring station)
  • sewage treatment plant
  • sidewalk
  • sports facilities
  • steam (catchbasin, receptor, inlet, manhole, outlet, culvert, lead, pipe, pond
  • storm management (catchbasins, inlets, outlets, manholes, leads, receptors, culverts, pipes, ponds, etc.
  • streets with address ranges
  • surface waters
  • trails
  • wards
  • water main (break history)
  • water pipe
  • water service (break history)
  • zoning (residential, commercial, agricultural, industrial)

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. They are stored in Shapefile format. 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 Cambridge 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

City of Cambridge Municipal Data [computer file]. Cambridge, Ontario: City of Cambridge, [2020]. 

Sample view of ortho and vector data

Cambridge data