City of London municipal data

Description

This vector data resource provides topographic and planning information for the City of London, Ontario. This data was delivered to the Library by the City of London in 2003 with updates and additional features received thereafter up until 2023.

Further municipal data updates for the City of London are available on-line through Scholars GeoPortal:http://geo2.scholarsportal.info/ as well as the City of London Open Data Site.

This resource includes the following vector coverages:

access way
addresses
assessment parcels
airports
bicycle routes
billboards (freestanding)
bridges
buildings
catch basins
city boundary
contours (1 metre interval)
contours (5 metre interval)
culverts
dock/wharf
double line/ street network (2003)
electrical substation
electrical tower
emergency services
falls
fences
flow arrows
golf courses
hedge rows
heritage parcels
manholes
marsh/ fens
mast
overhead walkway
Parcels
Parks
pipeline (above ground)
property parcels
parking lots

petroleum tank
piles
pits
public swimming pools
racetrack
railway line
rapids
retaining walls
rivers/ streams
roads
runway (airport)
settling basins
sewer pipes
shoreline
sidewalks
speed limits
steps
single line street network
spot heights
street names
tanks
towers (hydro)
trails
transmission lines
trees/ wooded areas/ vegetation
utility poles
vacant land
walkways
walls
water
zoning areas

Spatial reference and data type

This data set is available in Universal Tranverse Mercator (UTM) co-ordinates; horizontal datum is North American Datum (NAD) 83 UTM zone 17. 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 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. UWaterloo faculty, students and staff may copy these data to other media (for example: CD, DVD or Zip disc) 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 City of London 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.