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 Kitchener. These data are provided by the City of Kitchener and most are updated annually. Data coverages are for the period 1997-2024.
Included are the following coverages:
- Address points
- Bikeways
- Boundaries (ward, city)
- Bridges (Ontario Structure Inspection manual)
- Building footprints (and general use classification, address)
- Business directory
- City boundary
- City core boundary
- Community trails
- Contours (0.5 meter interval)
- Cultural heritage landscape (active, proposed, under review)
- Downtown boundaries
- Edge of Pavement
- Garbage cans
- Horticultural bed
- Hydro corridors
- Hydro towers
- Impervious area (non-residential: parking lots, walkways, driveways)
- Intensification (planning areas)
- Landmarks
- Land use by parcel fabric (agricultural, commercial, industrial, institutional, mixed use, open space, recreational, residential, row, utility).
- Municipality boundary
- Neighbourhood associations
- Parks
- Pavement edge
- Planning communities
- Planning intensification areas
- Property dots
- Property unit location (base, vertical, horizontal)
- Railways
- Road island and segments
- Sanitation bins
- Sewer (sanitary manholes, pipes, plugs, stubs and pumping stations)
- Sidewalks
- Single/double line streets
- Storm water (drainage area, inlets, facility, main pond, outlets, manholes, service pipes, plugs, stubs, leads, catch basins, culvert, bridge, stream reaches)
- Street addresses
- Street islands
- Street lights/poles
- Trails
- Tree species
- Wards (boundary, councillor name)
- Water (ponds, rivers, service pipes, streams, creeks, culverts/sewer, mains, valves, hydrants)
- Wetlands
- Zoning
Spatial reference and data type
These data sets are available in Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) zone 17 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 Kitchener 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 Kitchener Municipal Data [computer file]. Kitchener, Ontario: The City of Kitchener Department of Information Services, [2020].