City of Guelph municipal data

Description

This vector data resource provides topographic and planning information for the area encompassed by the City of Guelph. This information was provided to the Geospatial Centre by the City of Guelph in October 2006, 2011, 2014 and 2018. More recent data is available from the Guelph Open Data site. For your convenience, 2023 has already been downloaded.

Included are the following coverages:

address points
building footprints
bus stops
city facilities
contours (5 metre interval)
double line street network
EMS locations
fire hydrants
fire stations
hydrology
landmarks: educational, recreational, municipal services

parks and park names
places of workshop
police station
property/ building type
sidewalks
single line street network with street names
tree inventory
zoning

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. 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

To request this data, please fill out the Ask-Us form and include which layers (shapefiles) you are interested in obtaining. The dataset will be shared with you via OneDrive upon completion of the data release agreement form. You may also make an in-person appointment using the same form.

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 Guelph 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.