Regional Municipality of Waterloo communities orthoimagery (2009)

Description

This data resource contains eight orthomosaics, one for each of the cities of Waterloo, Kitchener and Cambridge and also coverage of the regional communities of Ayr, Breslau, Elmira, Conestogo, Wellesley, Baden, New Hamburg and North Dumfries. Aerial photography was captured in March 2009, and then scanned to digital format. Pixel resolution is 12 cm. The orthomosaics were provided to the Library by the Region of Waterloo in October 2009.

Spatial reference and data type

These georeferenced mosaics are available in Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) zone 17 coordinates; horizontal datum is North American Datum (NAD) 83. They are stored as compressed MrSID data files, with accompanying Sid World (SDW) files. File sizes range from 74 MB to 2.3 GB.

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

There are public workstations in the Geospatial Centre that provide access to 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

These images 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 Grahpics (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.