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Received from the City of Kitchener, 2019 municipal data updates including:  Bridges (Ontario Structure Inspection manual), Property Unit Location (base, vertical, horizontal), Zoning, Edge of Pavement, Impervious Area (non-residential: parking lots, walkways, driveways), Planning Intensification Areas, Road Island and Buildings.

Tuesday, November 19th - 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Dana Porter Computer Lab (LIB 329)

Monday, November 18th –1:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Dana Porter Computer Lab (LIB 329)

You may have heard of GIS, but what exactly is it, and more importantly, how can you use it in your own research and academic work?

This introductory workshop presents the basic concepts of GIS and will teach you the skills you need to find geospatial data, map it, and discover new dimensions of information.

By the end of the workshop, you will be able to:

OpenStreetMap is built by a community of mappers that contribute and maintain data about roads, trails, cafés, railway stations, and much more, all over the world.

OpenStreetMap is open data: you are free to use it for any purpose as long as you credit OpenStreetMap and its contributors. If you alter or build upon the data in certain ways, you may distribute the result only under the same licence. See the Copyright and License page for details.

Received from the City of Waterloo, Lidar data update (2019).

https://uwaterloo.ca/library/geospatial/collections/canadian-geospatial-data-resources/regional-municipality-waterloo/city-waterloo-lidar-2019

Updates to this building height data was received from Risk Management Solutions Incorporated (RMSI) global in the spring/summer of 2019.

The Platform aims to make geospatial information available in a coherent way to the public, academic institutions, the private sector and others to conduct research or produce value-added products and applications, driving innovation and stimulating economic development.

The Federal Geospatial Platform has two faces: an internal site that can be found at gcgeo.gc.ca (internal government network), and a public site entitled Open Maps, on the Open Government Portal.

This exploratory initiative aims at enhancing the use and harmonization of open building data from government sources for the purpose of contributing to the creation of a complete, comprehensive and open database of buildings in Canada.

Getting Started with ArcGIS

Thursday, January 31, 2019 -2:00 to 4:00 pm
Dana Porter Computer Lab (LIB 329)

You may have heard of GIS, but what exactly is it, and more importantly, how can you use it in your own research and academic work?

This introductory workshop presents the basic concepts of GIS and will teach you the skills you need to find geospatial data, map it, and discover new dimensions of information.