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In 2011, the staff in the University Map Library re-constructed the 1955 street network for Waterloo County. In 2017, the staff at the Geospatial Centre updated the project with 2016 data, allowing scholars, historians and community residents to study and analyze past and present street patterns. 

To visualize the changes which have occurred within the Waterloo Region multiple web maps were created to showcase the urban growth, road network, and road name changes between 1955 and 2016.

In celebration of Canada's 150th anniversary, the Geospatial Centre has created a graphic visualizing the population growth of Waterloo from 1855 to 2016.

https://uwaterloo.ca/library/geospatial/population-growth-waterloo-through-1867-present

Using ArcGIS Online's storybook application, you can see the increase in Waterloo's population over the years. The historical maps that were used to create the population density maps can be seen in the storymap. 

Received from the City of Hamilton, 2016 Land Use data.

https://uwaterloo.ca/library/geospatial/collections/canadian-geospatial-data-resources/other-ontario-cities-and-municipalities/city-hamilton-municipal-data

The Geospatial Centre now has complete coverage of these digital orthoimages for Lambton County (west of Middlesex County). These full colour images were flown in April 2002 by J D Barnes and originally provided to the Geospatial Centre by the Ministry of Natural Resources in October 2004. Pixel resolution of these images is 30 cm.

The 2016 Enhanced Compressed Wavelets (ECW) imagery was received from the City of Mississauga. Available through both Scholars GeoPortal and the Geospatial Centre the mosaicked imagery has a ground pixel resolution of 15 cm and total file size of 1.33 GB.

The project is a province-wide collaboration, led by the OCUL Geo Community, an open forum for the exchange of information relating to maps and GIS, to digitize and geocode early topographic maps of Ontario at the 1:25000 and 1:63360 scales.

http://ocul.on.ca/topomaps/

Available for download through Scholars GeoPortal:

This product was derived from various sources and geocoded by Geospatial staff using the ArcGIS's online geocoding service. Original data credits for this data are from:

https://www.ontario.ca/data/energy/energy-use-and-greenhouse-gas-emissions-broader-public-sector

https://environmental-commissioner-of-ontario.carto.com/datasets

https://eco.on.ca/maps/2016-lets-get-seriouis/map.php

The Geospatial Centre archival collection now houses historical vegetation  surveyor notes (JPG), pre-settlement vegetation maps (JPG), photo negatives of surveyor maps (JPG) and