Waste disposal inventory site data

Description

This data resource provides the locations of all active and inactive waste disposal sites in Ontario. This data is based on the 1991 publication "Waste Disposal Site Inventory" published by the Ontario Ministry of the Environment. More recent data is available from https://data.ontario.ca/dataset/waste-management-site

The data includes the following waste disposal site information:

Location
County
Municipality
Lot
Concession

Closest street intersection
Closing year
Closing date
Class

Spatial reference and data type

This data is available in Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) co-ordinates; horizontal datum is North Amercan 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 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. 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 data may be exported from the GIS software as a bitmapped image (e.g., jpg) or may be printed as a map view using one of the library's colour printers.

Use restrictions/licensing/copyright

This material is provided for academic, research, teaching, and personal use only. A data release agreement must be agreed to before the data is delivered. The Ontario Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing should be acknowledged on any derivative product, such as a map or an image.