City of Cambridge municipal data

Description

This vector data resource provides topographic, planning, and recreation information for the area encompassed by the City of Cambridge. With the exception of contours ( 2005, 2006, 2009, 2012, 2015), this dataset for the City of Cambridge is current to 2020.

Data resources for the City of Cambridge

address points
boundaries (municipal, neighbourhood, polling districts)
building footprint
business directory
city blocks
contours (0.5 metre interval)
digital terrain model (DTM)
GRCA rain gauge station
heritage properties
landmarks (police, firestations, churches, schools, etc.)
land use (agriculture, commercial, community core area, industrial, institutional, open space, residential)
municipal boundary
neighbourhoods
official plan (industrial, commercial, residential, agricultural, open space)
parcels
parks
pavement edges
polling boundaries

rain gauges
rain gauge station (GRCA)
sanitation (lift stations, manholes, pipes, flow monitoring station)
sewage treatment plant
sidewalk
sports facilities
steam (catchbasin, receptor, inlet, manhole, outlet, culvert, lead, pipe, pond
storm managmenet (catchbasins, inlets, outlets, manholes, leads, receptors, culverts, pipes, ponds, etc.
streets with address ranges
surface waters
trails
voting locations
wards
water main (break history)
water pipe
water service (break history)
zoning (residential, commercial, agricultural, industrial)

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. They are stored in Shapefile 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 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 and storage

There are public workstations in the Geospatial Centre that provide access to ArcGIS software, 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 for use elsewhere.

Data output

These data 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 Graphic (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 Cambridge 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.