DMTI CanMap: POI, Topographic, Transportation

Description

This product from DMTI Spatial provides a detailed road and highway network for all of Canada and is current to 2023.

This resource provides a more attribute-rich version of the DMTI Streetfiles product, including such features as turning radius, gradient, points of interest features as well as general topography. Please see the DMTI Spatial web resource for more information on these datasets. A file name index (PDF) and a Data Dictionary (2021) have been prepared to aid users in navigating through DMTI folders and products.

Data set type and features can be seen in the tables below.

Points of interest (POI) dataset (available by province)

Airports
Car pool lots
Cemeteries
Cinemas
Community Centres
Correctional Facitilies
Education
Fire Stations
Forts
Golf courses
Government Buildings
Health care centres
Lookouts

Parks Sportfields
Police Services
Populated areas
Religious Buildings
Ruins
Ski Centres
Stadiums
Toll booths
Tourist Attractions
Tracks and Trails
Vets
Weigh stations

Streets and other transportation dataset (available by province)

Aerial Cableline
Air Transport
Embankments
Expressways casements
Ferry Connections
Pedestrian Network
Primary highways casements
Major roads and highways
Secondary highways casements
Highways
Canada/ U.S.A roads linkages
Local road casements
Toll Booths
Weigh Stations

Major roads casements
Marina Yacht Clubs
Municipality boundaries
Ports
Roads
Rail Turntable
Runway
Seaplane Base
Shipping Lanes
Snowsheds
Elevation nodes
Ferry route
Trails casements
Transportation Stops
Highways

Topographic dataset (available by province)

Airports
Arenas
Bridges
Building types
Built-up areas
Elevation
Hydrographic structures
Industry Resource (gas & Oil, Lumberyards, Dumps, wells, refineries, natural gas terminals, etc)

Land use
Pipelines and transmission - regions
radio stations
Railway and transit lines
Silos
Tanks
Towers
Transmission lines
Transformer Stations
Vegetation
Wetlands
Wind operated structures

Spatial reference and data type

This data set is available in geographic (lat/long) co-ordinates; horizontal datum is North American Datum (NAD) 83. These data are stored as Esri shapefiles. Other data formats can be accommodated, as the Geospatial Centre has access to a number of conversion utilities.

Data access

In order to access this data set, please visit the Geospatial Centre reference desk during reference hours. Library reference staff are available to provide further information about these data sets and to deliver data upon request. Under the terms of the Library's license agreement, these data sets are for use by students, faculty, and staff at the University of Waterloo only.

Data manipulation

There are public workstations in the Geospatial Centre that provide access to ArcGIS software programs, program extensions and data manipulation utilities. Patrons may use the Geographic Information System (GIS) and image processing software in the library to view and manipulate the data. UWaterloo faculty, students and staff may copy these data to other media (for example: CD, DVD or Zip disc) for use elsewhere.

Data output

This image may be exported from ArcGIS in a choice of bitmapped formats (also known as raster graphics) including JPG, TIFF, GIF, and BMP or in a choice of vector graphics formats including Adobe Illustrator (AI), Encapsulated Postscript (EPS), and Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG). Yet another option is PDF.

Use restrictions/licensing/copyright

These data are provided for personal use for academic, research, and/or teaching purposes. A data release agreement must be agreed to before these licensed data can be released. DMTI Spatial must be acknowledged on any derivative product, whether printed or electronic, including for example, a printed map, a raster or vector graphic, a web-based application, etc. Patrons are advised to fully respect the provisions of Canada's Copyright Act as well as terms and conditions imposed by the data provider.