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City of Toronto Building Outlines

These building outlines were generated from the City of Toronto's open dataset "Forest and Landcover", found here.

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Creator: 
City of Toronto & U of T Map and Data Library
Date of creation: 
2009
Data edited date: 
2014 Jul 21st
Temporal extent: 
2007 to 2014
Publisher: 
City of Toronto & U of T Map and Data Library
Place of publication: 
Toronto
Edition: 
2007
Projection: 
Geographic
Datum: 
WGS84
Data type: 
Vector
Copyright holder: 
City of Toronto
Require permission to use?: 
None
Require acknowledgement to use?: 
Citation
Cost for use: 
None
Medium: 
web
Subjects: 
BUILDING OUTLINES
Geography: 
TORONTO
Restrictions: 
Public
Open data: 
OPEN_UT
Index link: 
http://www1.toronto.ca/wps/portal/contentonly
Downloads: 
File: 
Derived from Land Cover raster
Subject: 
BUILDING OUTLINES
Format: 
SHAPEFILE

United States Open Geospatial Data Catalog

Open data catalog. This is a direct link to open geospatial data - the official open data catalog is http://data.gov

Creator: 
United States Government
Publisher: 
United States of America
Place of publication: 
United States of America
Scale: 
various
Projection: 
various
Datum: 
various
Data type: 
Raster
Vector
Require permission to use?: 
None
Require acknowledgement to use?: 
None
Cost for use: 
None
Medium: 
web
Geography: 
UNITED STATES (INCLUSIVE)
Restrictions: 
Public
Open data: 
OPEN
Index link: 
https://catalog.data.gov/dataset

Historical Air Photos of Highway 401

original paper air photo scale is 200 feet to 1inch 

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Date of creation: 
1963
Temporal extent: 
1963
Scale: 
15cm
Projection: 
UTM Zone 17
Datum: 
NAD83
Data type: 
Raster
Require permission to use?: 
None
Require acknowledgement to use?: 
Citation
Cost for use: 
None
Medium: 
web
Subjects: 
AIR PHOTOS
AIR PHOTOS - BLACK AND WHITE
Geography: 
MISSISSAUGA
TORONTO
Restrictions: 
Public
Open data: 
OPEN_UT
Index link: 
https://mdl.library.utoronto.ca/collections/air-photos/1963-air-photos-highway-4…

North Vancouver Open Data

Read license agreement carefully - Please note that some of the data are not free for use.

Creator: 
North Vancouver
Publisher: 
North Vancouver
Place of publication: 
North Vancouver
Scale: 
various
Data type: 
Raster
Vector
Copyright holder: 
North Vancouver
Require permission to use?: 
None
Require acknowledgement to use?: 
Citation
Cost for use: 
None
Medium: 
web
Subjects: 
ADDRESSES
AIR PHOTOS
AIR PHOTOS - COLOUR
AIR PHOTOS - COLOUR - ORTHORECTIFIED
BICYCLE TRAILS
BOUNDARIES - POLITICAL
BUILDING OUTLINES
BUILDINGS - FOOTPRINTS
BUILDINGS - POINTS
BUS
CANADIAN CITIES
CENSUS
CITIES
CITY PLANNING
CRIME
DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL
Geography: 
NORTH VANCOUVER
Restrictions: 
Public
Open data: 
OPEN
Index link: 
http://geoweb.dnv.org/data/

Prince Edward Island GIS Data Catalogue

Includes historical forestry data going back to 1900 and historical air photos going back to 1935 (cost). Property boundaries and assessment information are at a cost.

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Creator: 
Government of Prince Edward Island
Data type: 
Raster
Vector
Require permission to use?: 
None
Require acknowledgement to use?: 
None
Cost for use: 
Cost
Medium: 
web
Subjects: 
ADDRESSES
AIR PHOTOS
ELECTORAL
EMERGENCY
FIRE
FORESTRY
POLICE
PROPERTY BOUNDARIES
TRANSPORTATION
Geography: 
PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND
Restrictions: 
Public
Open data: 
OPEN
Index link: 
http://www.gov.pe.ca/gis/index.php3

Toronto Waterfront Property Ownership (landlots)

Derived from: Toronto Harbour Commission land surveys and former City of Toronto property data maps available through the University of Toronto Data and Map Library; municipal property assessments from the City of Toronto Archives; land transfer agreements from the Archives of Ontario; as well as several data sources generously provided by Waterfront Toronto and the Toronto Port Authority. Full source information included as separate text file. Contact Gabriel Eidelman g.eidelman@utoronto.ca Department of Political Science, University of Toronto for further details. 

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Creator: 
Gabriel Eidelman
Place of publication: 
Toronto
Projection: 
Geographic
Datum: 
NAD83
Data type: 
Raster
Vector
Copyright holder: 
Gabriel Eidelman
Require permission to use?: 
None
Require acknowledgement to use?: 
Citation
Cost for use: 
None
Medium: 
web
Subjects: 
LAND OWNERSHIP
LAND USE
Geography: 
TORONTO
Restrictions: 
Public
Open data: 
OPEN_UT
Downloads: 
File: 
ownership and land use, 1961
Subject: 
LAND OWNERSHIP
Format: 
SHAPEFILE
File: 
ownership and land use, 1971
Subject: 
LAND OWNERSHIP
Format: 
SHAPEFILE
File: 
ownership and land use, 1980
Subject: 
LAND OWNERSHIP
Format: 
SHAPEFILE
File: 
ownership and land use, 1961 (Toronto Harbour Commission)
Subject: 
LAND OWNERSHIP
Format: 
JPEG
File: 
ownership and land use, 1990
Subject: 
LAND OWNERSHIP
Format: 
SHAPEFILE
File: 
ownership and land use, 1997-98
Subject: 
LAND OWNERSHIP
Format: 
SHAPEFILE
File: 
Rectified raster image (Toronto Harbour Commission, 1961)
Subject: 
LAND OWNERSHIP
Format: 
JPEG

Ontario Base Maps (OBM) - individual sheets

The Geography Network also has the data available in a web map application

 

Creator: 
Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources
Publisher: 
Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources
Scale: 
1:10000 & 1:20000
Data type: 
Vector
Copyright holder: 
Ontario Minstry of Natural Resources
Require permission to use?: 
None
Require acknowledgement to use?: 
Citation
Cost for use: 
None
Medium: 
WEB, local intranet, FTP, CD-ROMs 206, 207, 208
Subjects: 
BASE MAPS
HIGHWAYS
HYDROGRAPHY
HYPSOGRAPHY
RAILROADS
STREETS
TOPOGRAPHY
TRAILS
Geography: 
ONTARIO
Restrictions: 
Public
Open data: 
OPEN
Index link: 
http://geo.scholarsportal.info/
Downloads: 
File: 
Ontario Base Maps
Subject: 
BASE MAPS
Format: 
SHAPEFILE

City of Toronto Open Data Catalogue

This is the open data catalogue of the city of Toronto

Creator: 
City of Toronto
Publisher: 
City of Toronto
Place of publication: 
Toronto
Edition: 
1
Scale: 
various
Projection: 
various
Datum: 
various
Data type: 
Raster
Vector
Copyright holder: 
City of Toronto
Require permission to use?: 
None
Require acknowledgement to use?: 
Citation
Medium: 
web
Subjects: 
ADDRESSES
ADMINISTRATIVE BOUNDARIES
BICYCLE TRAILS
BOUNDARIES - POLITICAL
CANADIAN CITIES
CENSUS
CRIME
CULTURAL
ECONOMICS
EDUCATION
ELECTORAL
EMPLOYMENT
HEALTH
HOUSING
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
NEIGHBOURHOODS
PARKS
POLICE
POPULATION
POVERTY
RECREATION
SERVICES
TRANSIT
WARDS
ZONING
Restrictions: 
Public
Open data: 
OPEN
Index link: 
https://www.toronto.ca/city-government/data-research-maps/open-data/