Using Statistics Canada Data with ArcGIS 9x

April 2006 Ontario DLI Training

Using Statistics Canada Data with ArcGIS 9x

Nancy Lemay, University of Ottawa

Jenny Marvin, Guelph UniversityBarbara Znamirowski, Trent University

Ontario DLI Training April 2006


Discussion of Services and Visions for the Future

Possible Topics:

Current practices for creation of metadata for geography files

The impact of RDCs on use of geography files

Teaching GIS to users with no geography/geomatics background

The role of geography files in synthetic file tests

The current status and future prospects for collaboration on web sites and web servers

Statistics Canada – Census of Geography – Web Site

Statistics Canada - Peterborough – CA


Ontario Geospatial Data Exchange (OGDE)

Letter of Understanding between OCUL and the OGDE (18 February 2003)

3 year contract: 15 February 2003 to 14 February 2006 Includes 17 OCUL libraries OCUL pays one invoice; fixed sliding scale price administration

scheme (expired 14 February 2006)



Deliverables: Ontario Base Maps – 103 GB ( includes several export formats) Fundamental Class Data – 36 GB Natural Resources & Values Information System (NRVIS) Ontario Provincial Land Cover – 771 MB Some Federal Data Sets



Packaging and Distribution Methods: USB2 Hard Drive for base layers ( institutions can send their own

hard drive or borrow one from the OGDE) Ontario Land Information Data Subscription System (OLIDS) for

upgrades and individual orders University of Toronto Map Library FTP Server


OGDE – Fundamental Class Data – Boundaries


Series of topographical maps which cover most of Ontario. Maps provide a high level of detail and accuracy, and are the basic input tile for the Ontario Digital Topographic Data Base. The maps are done in two scales: 1:10 000 for southern Ontario, and 1:20 000 for northern Ontario. Although this dataset is based on the original grid structure of the Ontario Base Map (OBM) project, the data is in NAD 83 UTM. Each tile consists of 35 base classes such as water, roads, contours, buildings. 17 of the 35 classes are based on the original OBM layers.

Time Coverage: from Saturday, January 1, 1977 to Monday, March 31, 2003Time Coverage Comments: Some of the classes that were used to create this dataset is based on vintage data as old as 1977. Some classes that were used have been updated as recently as March 2003.

OGDE - Ontario Land Based Map Data

Ontario Land Information Directory of Metadata

for Geospatial Information Holdings.


OGDE – OBM – Kingston – 10 18 3800 48950


OGDE – Fundamental Class Layers

OGDE – Fundamental Class Data – NRVIS

NRCAN NTDB 1:250,000 31D – Lake Simcoe

NTDB – Lake Simcoe – 1:250,000 – 31D – Edition 3.01

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