City of Oakville orthoimagery (2008)

Discription

Received from the City of Oakville, this 2008 full colour imagery consists of 1km tiles, has a ground pixel resolution of 10cm and total file size of 2.25GB.

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Spatial reference and data type

This georeferenced data is available in Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) zone 17N coordinates, horizontal datum is North American Datum (NAD) 83.

Data access

In order to access these data sets, 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. Waterloo faculty, students and staff may copy these data for use elsewhere.

Data output

These images 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. The City of Oakville 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.