The Map Library is pleased to announce that SOLRIS' land cover data is now available for all of southwestern Ontario, Central Ontario, and Eastern Ontario.
The Southern Ontario Land Resource Information System (SOLRIS) is a landscape-level inventory of natural, rural and urban areas. Inventory categories include, for example, shorelines, tallgrass savanah, coniferous forest, swamp, built-up area, and so on. There are a total of 23 landcover categories plus open water and undifferentiated (largely cropland).
More information available from : http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/locations/umd/digital/SOLRIS.html
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In April, 2008 the Map Library had acquired environmental data from the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (TRCA). Included in this dataset are:
natural cover: beach/bluff, forest, meadow, succession, wetland
vegetation type (polygons): these are community types (e.g., sumac cultural thicket, willow shrub beach, dry-fresh oak-hardwood deciduous forest)
fauna (21,000 points): significant species (e.g., birds, squirrels, frogs: alder flycatcher, bobolink, red squirrel, western chorus frog)
flora (44,000 points): significant species (e.g., woodfern, shagbark hickory)
municipality boundaries
water bodies
water courses
watersheds
TRCA properties
contours 1m
Please visit the Map Library for data access.
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
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