We have just received the latest (2024) City of Toronto orthoimagery files, available to current U of T students, staff, and faculty.
Key features:
High-resolution images (TIFFs)
Ready to use in GIS
Mostly leaf-off imagery
4-band imagery, with a… Read more.
Maps
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Map projections have been in the news lately: representatives of the African Union and advocacy groups are calling for a replacement of the Mercator projection (used frequently online, like in Google Maps) with the Equal Earth map. But you may well… Read more.
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On June 12, 2025, I delivered a conference paper based on my doctoral research on archaeological maps of the Silk Road.1 I tried to answer two cartographic questions:
First, what were routes from an archaeologist's maps doing in a confidential… Read more.
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This month’s featured map is A Literary Map of Canada, a 1936 map held in the Map & Data Library at the University of Toronto Libraries. A digital copy is available through the Map & Data Library’s Scanned Maps Collection.
In 1936, William… Read more.
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On June 12, 2025, two Map & Data Library staff members presented on how the library moved its collection of a quarter-million maps to the sub-basement of Robarts Library. Leanne Trimble (MDL Head and Data Librarian) and Nick Field (Data Support… Read more.
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MDL participated in a full-day mapping workshop with the Jackman Humanities Institute:https://www.humanities.utoronto.ca/news/cartographic-undergrounds-cartographic-underworlds-how-read-map
Co-organized by Alaa Attiah Mitwaly, Chloe Bordewich, and… Read more.
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Welcome to the inaugural "Map of the Month"! This series will highlight one map from the University of Toronto collections, providing a monthly snapshot of new, rare, historically significant, or just plain unusual maps.
This month's map is "Campus… Read more.
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MDL has just acquired access to Geolytics' Neigbourhood Change Database 2020, which includes US Census Tract level data from 1970, 1980, 1990, 2000, 2010 and 2020, all normalized to 2020 tract boundaries. This allows for the analysis of change in US… Read more.