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Access to ArcGIS software

Thursday, September 10, 2020 by Jonathan Morgan

Effective August 31, 2020, the University of Waterloo has obtained an Esri Institutional License, which permits any student or employee of the University of Waterloo to use Esri software for teaching, learning, and research purposes. Commercial use is not permitted.

https://wiki.uwaterloo.ca/display/ISTKB/Accessing+Esri+ArcGIS+software

GIS Workshops: Poll

Monday, August 24, 2020 by Jonathan Morgan

In an effort to serve you better, the Library's Geospatial Centre would like to offer three virtual workshops from September 28th to October 2nd. We'd like your input as to when they should happen during that week.

Please complete these polls for any of the workshops you might be interested in:

Cultural heritage landscape (active, proposed, under review)

Monday, August 17, 2020 by Jonathan Morgan

Received from the City of Kitchener, cultural heritage landscape data (active, proposed, under review).

Geospatial resources module

Wednesday, August 5, 2020 by Jonathan Morgan

Welcome to the Geospatial Resources Module. This module will introduce you to the resources in the Geospatial Centre.

The City of Cambridge orthomosaic (2019)

Thursday, July 23, 2020 by Jonathan Morgan

Description

This data resource is a colour compressed orthomosaic, stored in MrSID image format, covering the City of Cambridge. Pixel resolution is 10 cm. The orthomosaic was provided to the Geospatial Centre by the City of Cambridge.

City of Cambridge: municipal data update (2020)

Thursday, July 23, 2020 by Jonathan Morgan

Received from the City of Cambridge, 2020 municipal data updates including: businesses, steam catchbasin, steam inlet, steam manhole, steam outlet, steam culvert, steam lead, steam pipe and pavement edge.

Region of Waterloo: street and planning data

Friday, July 17, 2020 by Jonathan Morgan

Data updates received from the Region of Waterloo: residential and non-residential building permits (issued to May 28, 2020), and "Population Land Use Model".

City of Waterloo: Annual Average Daily Traffic (AADT)

Friday, July 17, 2020 by Jonathan Morgan

Received from the City of Waterloo, Annual Average Daily Traffic counts (dBase file format).

The City of Kitchener orthomosaic (2019)

Thursday, July 16, 2020 by Jonathan Morgan

This data resource is a colour compressed orthomosaic, stored in MrSID image format and covering part of the City of Kitchener. Aerial photography was flown in the spring, 2019, then scanned to digital format. Pixel resolution is 10 cm. The full colour orthomosaic was provided to the Geospatial Centre by the City of Kitchener in July 2020.

City of Kitchener municipal data

Thursday, July 16, 2020 by Jonathan Morgan

Received from the City of Kitchener, 2020 municipal data updates including: bridges, pavement edge, impervious area, planning intensification areas, property unit location, road island, double line street, water hydrants, water mains, water service pipes, water valves and zoning. This vector data resource covers 1997 - 2020 and provides topographic, planning, and recreation information for the area encompassed by the City of Kitchener.