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 2026.
Data resources for the City of Cambridge
- addresses
- bike (network, on road)
- boundaries (municipal, neighbourhood, polling districts)
- building (city owned, directory, footprint, improvement areas, parks)
- contours (0.5 metre interval)
- control monuments
- digital elevation model (DEM), digital terrain model (DTM)
- emergency services
- GRCA rain gauge station
- heritage (district, parcel, properties)
- landmarks (police, fire stations, churches, schools, etc.)
- land use (agriculture, commercial, community core area, industrial, institutional, open space, residential)
- municipal boundary
- museums
- neighbourhoods
- official plan (industrial, commercial, residential, agricultural, open space)
- parcels
- parking lots
- parks
- pavement markings
- places of worship
- planning neighbourhoods
- play structures
- polling boundaries
- railways
- rain gauges
- rain gauge station (GRCA)
- roads
- roundabouts
- sanitation (lift stations, manholes, pipes, flow monitoring station)
- schools
- 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
- tree
- traffic islands and traffic signs
- trails
- wards
- water main (break history)
- water (chamber, hydrant, pipe, service, service valve, valve)
- 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
