Street and planning data

Description

This vector data resource provides municipal planning information for the Region of Waterloo. This data is provided by the Region of Waterloo, and consists of coverages for the period of 2001-2021.

Vector data coverages are listed in the table below.

Municipal planning information for the Region of Waterloo

Active transportation
Address points
Aggregate licenses
Airfields
Airport
Airport noise exposure
Airport zoning regulations
Ambulance stations
Arts (museum, music, and art galleries)
Blue bin routes
Buildings (incomplete)
Building permits
Cemeteries
City, town, village boundaries
Community centres
Contours
Creeks
Cycling facilities
Digital Elevation Model (DEM)
Designated areas
Designated properties
Downtown boundary
Early learning child care centres (licensed)
Environmentally sensitive protected areas
Fire stations
Forests
Forests owned by the Region
Gas pipelines
Garbage routes
Grand River Transit (bus routes and stops)
Green bin routes
Ground water recharge
Ground water (treatment and well system, aquifer type, water depth)
Heritage built resources
Heritage resource areas
Hydrants
Hydro lines

Hydro One stations
Hydro One structures
Lakes
Land use developed
Land use owner parcels
Libraries
Libraries (regional catchments)
Long term care facilities
Light rail transit (LRT) (rapid transit) (facilities, routes, and stations)
Medical centres
Municipal wells
Neighbourhoods
Neighbourhood Census Boundary
Parks
Pathways
Public owned parcels
Population landuse model
Rapid transit stations
Recreational facilities
Recycling depots
Regional library boundaries
Regional municipal boundaries
Religious buildings
Rivers
Schools (Catholic, public, secondary, other)
Schools (post secondary)
Settlements
Single line street network
Traffic signals
Traffic zones (household, dwellings, population, employment, post secondary students)
Trails
Transportation hub
Waterloo Morraine
Waste (pick-up schedule/collection routes)
Waterloo Catholic District School Board boundaries
Waterloo Region District School Board boundaries

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. 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 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.