City of London orthophotos 2007

Description

This data resource contains a full-colour MrSid orthoimage of the City of London. This image was taken in April 2007, and has a spatial resolution of 15 cm. The file size is approximately 1.1 GB. This resource was provided to the Map Library by the City of London in February 2008.

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. These data are stored as MrSid images format. 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. 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 Geographic Information System (GIS) software, program extensions and data manipulation utilities. Patrons may use the GIS software in the library to view and manipulate the data. UWaterloo faculty, students and staff may copy these data to other media (Zip disk or CD-R) 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 using the library's colour printer.

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 City of London should be acknowledged on any derivative product, such as a map or an image.