1951 Census Tracts (CT) and Census Metropolitan Areas (CMA)

 

Received from the University of British Columbia, 1951 census tracts and census metropolitan areas for 16 Canadian metropolitan areas. Census boundaries were scanned from 1951 census boundary maps from Statistics Canada bound volumes, then digitalized in ArcGIS shapefile format. Metropolitan areas in this resource include: Calgary, Edmonton, Halifax, Hamilton, London, Montreal, Ottawa, Quebec, Regina, Saint John, St. John's, Saskatoon,Toronto,Vancouver,Victoria,Winnipeg.

Geospatial Centre RMOW Historical Map Project

The Geospatial Centre has a large collection of historical maps that are continuing to grow in popularity with library clients. To make this collection more accessible, in the summer of 2012, the Geospatial Centre launched an archival map scanning and digitization pilot project, and made the maps available online; a project that was inspired by Brock University’s online historical map collection.

http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/locations/umd/digital/historicmaps.html

City of Kitchener Orthomosaic 2012

This data resource is a colour compressed orthomosaic, stored in MrSID image format, covering the City of Kitchener. Aerial photography was flown on April 5th to April 7th, 2012, then scanned to digital format. Pixel resolution is 12 cm. The orthomosaic was provided to the Geospatial Centre by the City of Kitchener in January 2013.

 

 

 

http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/locations/umd/digital/CityofKitchenerOrthomosaic2012.html

Historical 1963 air photos of Waterloo, Kitchener and Cambridge

The Geospatial Centre scanned and digitalized 1963 historical air photos of Waterloo, Kitchener and Cambridge and made available for download from the Historical Air photo project website:  http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/locations/umd/project/

 

Atlas of Canada

On January 25th, Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) is launching a new version of the Atlas of Canada website. This version was developed to meet the new web standards for the Government of Canada regarding web accessibility and usability. The new Atlas of Canada site includes all of the content of the previous version, however some of the dynamic map viewing functionality will no longer be available. They will continue to evolve the site over the next few months.

 The Toporama web map service has been improved and includes more up-to-date data.

New web visualization services are currently under development and will be added to the Atlas in the coming months. These will includes, among other things, a visualisation service for a new series of geosciences data.

http://atlas.nrcan.gc.ca/site/english/index.html

Canadian Weather Stations

Received from the University of Guelph, data file with 1480 Environment Canada Weather Stations. Data was geocoded from original text table.

 

 

 

 

 

City of Kitchener Municipal Data

On Janurary 7th, 2012 the Geospatial Centre received updated municipal data from the City of Kitchener.

http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/locations/umd/googleAPIs/kitchener/kitchener_vector.html