City of Toronto municipal data

Description

This collection of data products provides topographic and municipal planning information for the area encompassed by the City of Toronto. This data were provided to the Geospatial Centre by the City of Toronto, Geospatial Competency Centre between 2003 -2023. The City of Toronto also has current open data available from their website.

Data resources and data type

Automated speed enforcement locations
Bicycle parking racks
Cycling network
Business Improvement Areas
Environmentally Significant areas
Municipality boundaries
Homicide data
Major crime indicators
Motor vehicle collisions
Address points
Neighbourhood crime rates
Street bicycle parking
On-street permit parking areas
Pedestrian network
Red light cameras
contours (data type: shapefiles)
city wards
fire stations
health services
neighbourhoods
generalized Digital Terrain Model (DTM) (data type: AutoCAD DWG and ASCII)
property parcels (data type: shapefile)
street trees
Property Data Maps (PDM) 2011 - 2018 (data type: AutoCAD DWG)
centre line streets (includes streets, rivers, creeks, ramps, hydro lines, laneways, railways, shorelines, trails, walkways) (data type: shapefiles)
zoning : includes Etobicoke, former city of Toronto and North York (data type for Etobicoke and North York : AutoCAD dxf) (data type for Former City of Toronto : PDF)

Spatial reference and data type

These data sets are available in Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) co-ordinates; horizontal datum is North American Datum (NAD) 83. Centre line streets are also available in Modified Transverse Mercator (MTM) zone 10, (NAD) 27. Other data formats can be accommodated, as the Geospatial Centre has access to a number of conversion utilities.

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 both ArcGIS and ArcView 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

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 Toronto Geospatial Competency Centre 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.