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Received from Stats Canada, NHS (National Household Survey) 2011 census profiles for Income and Housing and are now available at the Geospatial Centre.
 

Received from the City of Waterloo, 2013 municipal data updates including two new data files for bicycle parking and public art.

Received from Land Information Ontario, 2009/ 2010 orthoimagery for the GTA. These digital orthoimages provide full-colour aerial coverage of Toronto core (10 cm), York (15cm), Caledon (20 cm), South Durham (20 cm), Brampton (10 cm), Mississauga (15 cm), and Oakville (10cm),

Received from Land Information Ontario, the complete DRAPE (Digital Raster Acquisition Project for the East) dataset (2008-2009) for Eastern Ontario. 20 km mosaics have 50 cm resolution and stored in MrSid file format. Average file size is 1GB.

• Offers geospatial reference and consultation services to library users 
• Trains colleagues and library users in effective uses of Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
• Assists in creating, maintaining, updating and organizing the Library’s Geospatial data collection. 
• Assists in the development of relevant teaching and training materials for workshops, classroom presentations and special events 
• Delivers and maintains geospatial digital and digitalization projects

Received from the University of British Columbia, 1951 census tracts and census metropolitan areas for 16 Canadian metropolitan areas. Census boundaries were scanned from 1951 census boundary maps from Statistics Canada bound volumes, then digitalized in ArcGIS shapefile format. Metropolitan areas in this resource include: Calgary, Edmonton, Halifax, Hamilton, London, Montreal, Ottawa, Quebec, Regina, Saint John, St. John's, Saskatoon,Toronto,Vancouver,Victoria,Winnipeg.

This data resource is a colour compressed orthomosaic, stored in MrSID image format, covering the City of Kitchener. Aerial photography was flown on April 5 to April 7, 2012, then scanned to digital format. Pixel resolution is 12 cm. The orthomosaic was provided to the Geospatial Centre by the City of Kitchener in January 2013.

Received from the University of Guelph, data file with 1480 Environment Canada Weather Stations. Data was geocoded from original text table.