City of Mississauga Urban Planning data

Description

Mississauga Data is a website that contains urban planning related reports, newsletters, brochures and data. The Information Planning Research Unit manages statistical data including: population; demographics; census; development monitoring/activity; growth forecasts; housing; employment; office; land use; vacant employment lands, and the environment.

This data resource was downloaded from the City of Mississauga Open Data Catalogue in September 2012.

The resource includes the following vector coverages:

2010 business 300
character area
city ward boundaries
employment growth forecast
existing land use 2010
housing growth forecast

multi unit residential inventory
natural area survey 2010
office building parcels
planning districts
residential building parcels
townhouse complex parcels

Spatial reference and data type

This data set is available in Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) co-ordinates; horizontal datum is North American Datum (NAD) 83 UTM zone 17. 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

This data set is available at 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.

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 for use elsewhere.

Data output

These data 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), Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) or PDF. Yet another option is printing the image on the library's colour printer.

Use restrictions/licensing/copyright

Terms of use (PDF) are intended to protect and promote the City of Mississauga's commitments to open data and ensure that the recipients of these datasets give back to the community the benefits they derive from these datasets and other information downloaded from the City of Mississauga Publications and Open Data Catalogue.