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Environmental Science - Geospatial Data: Request Raw Data

A collection of links to geospatial and GIS data sources on the Web; links to Seneca Libraries subscription journals/periodicals that offer scholarly articles on geospatial data and GIS; and information about books in the Seneca Libraries collection.

Geospatial Data

Looking for raw GIS data? Upon request, Seneca Libraries can obtain data for Seneca students and faculty from the Ministry of Natural Resources. Have look in the Seneca Libraries Online Geospatial Data Collection below for data immediately available, or search the LIO Warehouse for other datasets and submit a request for them. We also have a Subject Guide with links to data by country. Any requests to have raw data obtained from these sources and added to our Online Geospatial Data Collection should be submitted to:

geospatialdata@senecacollege.ca

Seneca Libraries Online Geospatial Data Collection

Seneca Libraries Online Geospatial Data Collection

Contains a small amount of data from the Ministry of Natural Resources, including: Provincial DEM, Soils Ontario, Lot, Lot Fabric Improved, and more.

The data can downloaded directly from this site using your Seneca username and password.

Contact Information

For more information about geospatial data, please email: geospatialdata@senecacollege.ca

PLEASE NOTE: At this time the library is unable to assist students with using geospatial data, using ArcGIS software, or any other analysis of data. Please contact your professor for assistance.

Alternatively, you could try some of the help documents compiled by the Geospatial Map & Data Centre at Ryerson University: http://library.ryerson.ca/gmdc/madar/gis/help/

Search Ontario GeoHub

Search Ontario GeoHub

Land Information Ontario (LIO) is a provincial initiative that supports the province-wide sharing of geographic data.

Ontario GeoHub is a web-accessible database that stores geographic data from across the province. The data ranges from administrative boundaries to transportation arteries to land ownership information to the location of underground wells and satellite imagery.

Seneca College has downloaded some of the more popular datasets from LIO into our Geospatial Online Collection. To request additional data:

  1. Search the Ontario GeoHub
  2. Once you have located the data you require, send a request to geospatialdata@senecacollege.ca from your Seneca email address and include this information in your email:
    1. the title and abstract from the Ontario GeoHub search
    2. your name and course code
  3. Your request may take from 2 days to 2 weeks depending on the size of the data (LIO mails data that is too large to download)

Once received, the library will post your data online for you to download, or will place a CD on reserve at the Borrower Services Desk in the Newnham Campus Library, depending on the size of the data.

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