Official Plans for the Regional Municipality of Waterloo

Description

The Official Plan data resource was received from the Regional Municipality of Waterloo for the years 2006, 2009, 2010, 2015. The Official Plan contains planning policies for directing growth and change in Waterloo Region and was developed in consultation with community groups, area municipalities and agencies and the general public.

The vector data coverage is listed below.

Official Plan data

Aggregates
Agriculture (prime)
Airports (international)
Airport lands
Bedrock
Bicycle paths
Built-up areas
Core features
Corridor (proposed)
Countryside boundaries
Countryside (protected)
Environmentally-sensitive landscapes
Environmentally-sensitive policy areas
Forest
Forest (regional)
Golden Horseshoe greenbelt
Greenfield areas (designated)
Ground water recharge area
Highway 7 (planned)
Highway 401 employment area

Landscape level systems
Microbial risk management zones
Prime industrial strategic reserve
Properties (subject to appeal)
Re-urbanization centres
Roads (existing)
Roads (planned)
Rural settlements
Township urban growth centres
Transit
Transit (central transit corridor)
Urban areas
Urban growth centres (cities, townships)
Valleys
Wellhead protection areas (1-9)
Wells (production)

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, Zone 17N. These data are stored in a geodatabase 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 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 Regional Municipality 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