DMTI Spatal: 2013 data updates

Received from DMTI Spatial, 2013 data updates for CanMap RouteLogistics, CanMap Water, CanMap Parks, CanMap Rail, Canadian Atlas, Neighbourhood Boundaries, Platinum Postal Codes and Enhanced Points of Interest (EPOI)

Greater Toronto Area: Orthoimagery 2009 - 1010

Received from Land Information Ontario, 2009/ 2010 orthoimagery for the GTA. These digital orthoimages provide full-colour aerial coverage of Toronto core (10 cm), York (15cm), Caledon (20 cm), South Durham (20 cm), Brampton (10 cm), Mississauga (15 cm), and Oakville (10cm),

http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/locations/umd/digital/GTAImagery2009_2010.html

 

2011 NHS (National Household Survey) from Stats Canada

Received from Stats Canada, NHS (National Household Survey) 2011 census profiles for age/sex, aboriginal, education/ labour, language, marital/ families/ households, mobility/ migration, immigration/ ethnocultural/ diversity and are now available. Income and Housing census profiles are expected to be released in the near future.

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

DRAPE (Digital Raster Acquisition Project for the East) 2008 - 2009 Imagery

Received from Land Information Ontario, the complete DRAPE (Digital Raster Acquistion Project for the East) dataset (2008-2009) for Eastern Ontario. 20km mosaics have 50cm resolution and stored in MrSid file format. Average file size is 1GB.

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

2008 QuickBird Satellite Imagery for the City of Waterloo

Obtained in August from Digital Globe, 2008 QuickBird satellite imagery for the City of Waterloo. The imagery Bundle (Pan MS) is Multispectral, 4 bands (BIR, R,G, B) and was captured on May 29, 2008. The 61cm geo-referenced imagery is available in GeoTiff 16 bit format.

Geospatial Centre welcomes Talsan Schulzke

Talsan’s main responsibilities include:

• Offers geospatial reference and consultation services to library users 
• Trains colleagues and library users in effective uses of GIS 
• Assists in creating, maintaining, updating and organizing the Library’s Geospatial data collection. 
• Assists in the development of relevant teaching and training materials for workshops, classroom presentations and special events 
• Delivers and maintains geospatial digital and digitalization projects

Talsan holds a B.A. from Brigham Young University-Idaho, where he majored in English and minored in geography. He moved to Waterloo from Rexburg, Idaho, where he worked full-time for the City of Rexburg as a GIS Analyst and taught freshman writing at BYU-Idaho on a part-time basis. As a GIS Analyst, Talsan was responsible for maintaining the city-county enterprise database (SDE) and also acted as chief cartographer for standardized map publications. Although he had a variety of duties with the city, Talsan’s primary responsibilities included database administration, GPS data collection, utilities mapping, and emergency services support, including maps and applications. Talsan looks forward to combining his GIS skills with his enthusiasm for learning in providing geospatial support services at the University of Waterloo.

Public Owned Parcels - Region of Waterloo

Received from the Region of Waterloo on July 22nd, parcel data displaying all public owned land within the Region. Parcel ownership is broken down by government agency (region, fed, provincial, etc.)