City of Waterloo municipal data

Description

This vector data resource provides topographic, planning, and recreation information for the area encompassed by the City of Waterloo. This information, provided by the City of Waterloo, consists of coverages for the period of 2001-2015, 2017, 2019, 2024. Included are the following coverages:

Academic buildings
Accommodations
Address assessment (type of dwelling)
Address points
Bicycle parking
Bikeways
Building footprints
Bus stops
Business Improvement Area
Campgrounds
Churches
City boundary
City core boundary
City trails
Community districts
Contours (0.5 metre interval)
Creeks/rivers
Cul de sacs
Cycling routes
DEM Points
District plans
Dwelling counts
Environment lands (protected from future development)
Environmentally sensitive areas
Facilities (fire station, Waterloo City Centre, cemeteries, button factory, etc.)
Fire hydrants
Forests
Golf courses
Grand River (watercourse)
Grand River watershed
Heritage building footprints
Heritage designation
Heritage district
Household size
Lakes
Landmarks (e.g., fire departments, stadiums, galleries, libraries)
Major active transport routes (trails, roads)
Municipal boundary
Neighbourhood associations
Official Plan
Parks
Pedestrian corridor
Planning district boundaries
Polling 2014
Polling boundaries
Postal codes
Property fabric
Public art
Railways

Retail shops and malls
Rivers
Road cover
Sanitation access holes
Sanitation catchbasins
Sanitation sewers (blokages, catchment area, clean out, fitting, flow monitor locations, gravity main, lateral line, manhole, meter, network junctions, network pressurized main, sewer shed, storm gate, valve)
Schools
Sidewalks
Soils
Storm water (catchment basin, filtration pipe, gravity main, infiltrarion facility, infiltration pipe, inlet, lateral line, pipes/ mains, management control, management ponds, network junctions, network structures, outlet, quality pond catchment areas, storm catchment areas, storm gate
Streets (single line, intersections)
Streets (historical)
Student housing
Sub-water basins (catch, ceptor, fitting, gravity main, inlet, manhole, outlet, stormwater management, structure, pond)
Surficial Geology
Traffic counts (Average Annual Daily Traffic - AADT) -dBase file format
Trail amenities
Transmission lines
Transportation routes (major active rail and road)
Trees (street trees)
Walking trails
Ward boundaries
Water Distribution (main break locations, field notes, fitting, flushing runs, flushing zones, flushing weekly zones, hydrant, main, meter, network junctions, network structure, valve, hydrant main areas, sampling locations, service, tracerwire test box, water pressure zones, water zones)
Water bodies
Wooded areas
Zoning (residential, commercial, agricultural, industrial, zoning hazards)

Spatial reference and data type

This data set 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 this data set, 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 both ArcGIS and ArcView 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. Waterloo faculty, students and staff may copy these data 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 Postscript (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 City of Waterloo 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.