City of Toronto municipal data

Description

This collection of data products provides topographic and municipal planning information for the area encompassed by the City of Toronto. This data were provided to the Geospatial Centre by the City of Toronto, Geospatial Competency Centre between 2003 -2023. The City of Toronto also has current open data available from their website.

Data resources and data type

Automated speed enforcement locations
Bicycle parking racks
Cycling network
Business Improvement Areas
Environmentally Significant areas
Municipality boundaries
Homicide data
Major crime indicators
Motor vehicle collisions
Address points
Neighbourhood crime rates
Street bicycle parking
On-street permit parking areas
Pedestrian network
Red light cameras
contours (data type: shapefiles)
city wards
fire stations
health services
neighbourhoods
generalized Digital Terrain Model (DTM) (data type: AutoCAD DWG and ASCII)
property parcels (data type: shapefile)
street trees
Property Data Maps (PDM) 2011 - 2018 (data type: AutoCAD DWG)
centre line streets (includes streets, rivers, creeks, ramps, hydro lines, laneways, railways, shorelines, trails, walkways) (data type: shapefiles)
zoning : includes Etobicoke, former city of Toronto and North York (data type for Etobicoke and North York : AutoCAD dxf) (data type for Former City of Toronto : PDF)

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. Centre line streets are also available in Modified Transverse Mercator (MTM) zone 10, (NAD) 27. Other data formats can be accommodated, as the Geospatial Centre has access to a number of conversion utilities.

Data access

To request this data, please fill out the Ask-Us form and include which layers (shapefiles) you are interested in obtaining. The dataset will be shared with you via OneDrive upon completion of the data release agreement form. You may also make an in-person appointment using the same form.

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 Toronto Geospatial Competency Centre 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.