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City of Waterloo: Lidar update (2019)

Friday, June 7, 2019 by Jonathan Morgan

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

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Ontario GeoHub

Wednesday, May 15, 2019 by Jonathan Morgan

Land Information Ontario introduces the Ontario GeoHub, the new data discovery and distribution service that will replace the Metadata Management Tool.

The Ontario GeoHub will allow you to:

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Building heights: Risk Management Solutions Incorporated (RMSI) Global data

Thursday, May 2, 2019 by Jonathan Morgan

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

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Teranet's Province of Ontario Land Registry Information System (POLARIS) property boundaries data

Tuesday, April 30, 2019 by Jonathan Morgan

These datasets were provided to the Geospatial Centre by Teranet in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016 and 2018. Ownership parcels are based on title records from the Ministry of Government Services, reflecting the ownership boundaries of each property.

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StatsCan: Geospatial web services for socioeconomic variables

Thursday, April 25, 2019 by Jonathan Morgan

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.

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Workshop: Dynamic Flood Simulation with HEC-RAS

Thursday, April 25, 2019 by Jonathan Morgan

Tuesday, May 14th, 2019 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Dana Porter Computer Lab (LIB 329)

This workshop is a primer for working with computational hydrology software and, as such, assumes a good grounding in most GIS concepts of spatial and raster analysis. The tutorial is designed to get you comfortable with HEC RAS's specific requirements for creating a dynamic flood simulation.

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

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Open building data: Statistics Canada

Friday, March 1, 2019 by Jonathan Morgan

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.

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Digital Historical Air Photos of the City of Guelph

Wednesday, January 30, 2019 by Jonathan Morgan

Air photos for the City of Guelph for the years 1930, 1955, and 1966 have been scanned, digitized and georeferenced and are available for public viewing and downloading. Image formats include jpg, tiff, pdf, and KMZ files (for Google Earth). All image formats can be viewed in a GIS program.

For access to the original scanned images or paper air photos, please visit the Geospatial Centre.