Built boundary for the growth plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe

Description

Geographic Information System (GIS) files were received from Ontario Ministry of Public Infrastructure Renewal on May 9, 2008. The data reflects what was built and on the ground when the growth plan came into effect in June, 2006 and is an important implementation and monitoring tool for the growth plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe. The built boundary will allow the province and others to measure intensification and redevelopment within the built-up area. The built boundary was released in its final form on April 2, 2008, along with the methodology used to derive it.

The dataset provided to the Geospatial Centre includes the following boundaries:

City of Barrie
City of Brant
City of Guelph
City of Hamilton
city of Kawartha Lakes
City of Orilla
City of Peterborough
City of Toronto
County of Brant
County of Dufferin
County of Haldemand
County of Northumberland

County of Peterborough
County of Wellington
Greater Golden Horseshoe
Region of Durham
Region of Halton
Region of Niagara
Region of Peel
Region of Waterloo
Region of York
Simcoe County

Spatial reference and data type

These data sets is available in Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM). zone 17 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 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.

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 GIS and image processing software in the library to view and manipulate the data. University of Waterloo 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 (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 Ontario Ministry of Public Infrastructure Renewal 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.