Digital projects

Waterloo: Population change from 1867 - 2017

In celebration of Canada's 150th anniversary, the Geospatial Centre has created a graphic visualizing of population growth for Waterloo from mid 1800's to present day.  

Kitchener-Waterloo: 1955 to present

Story Map "Swipe" and "Spyglass" is an ArcGIS online application that enables users to interact with two web maps or two layers. The Geospatial Centre uses this application to give a visual comparison between historical airphotos and maps with the present.

Air photos digitization project

In October 2007, the University map library launched the Air photos digitization project, where approximately 2000 historical air photos for the years 1930, 1945-47, 1955, 1963 and 1966 of Kitchener-Waterloo and surrounding areas were scanned and saved electronically.

Air photo interactive map index

This interactive map index provides the library's complete paper aerial photography and photomap coverages. To access photos, please visit the Geospatial Centre.

Waterloo County historical street project

In 2017, the staff in the Geospatial Centre re-constructed the 1955 street network for Waterloo County. The street maps from the Waterloo County historical street project are made freely available in digital map format, Geographic Information System (GIS) Shapefiles and Keyhole Markup Language (KML) files, allowing scholars, historians and community residents to study and analyze past and present street patterns.

First Mennonite Church 200th anniversary display

The Geospatial Centre presents a collection of photographs and maps showing the progression of both the church and surrounding area over 200 years in the First Mennonite Church 200th anniversary display.

Geo-Abstract art show

The Geo-Abstract art show was initially exhibited in collaboration with RENDER at the Modern Languages Gallery. The maps show accurate graphical and photographic representations of the earth and its people and were created by Geospatial Centre staff using Geographical Information Systems (GIS) technology.

Pre-settlement vegetation mapping project (Karrow, T and Suffling, R.)

This website provides a database of known pre-settlement vegetation maps, created from early survey data. Three distinct 'metamaps' represent cartographic endeavours from different sources.

University of Waterloo Special Collections and Archives: Story Map

This Story Map was created by the Geospatial Centre as part of a digital display for the trips, tours, and voyages exhibit for Special Collections & Archives at the University of Waterloo.