Water Area at 1 Million Coordinate system: 4269 - "NAD83" Abstract: This data set is a Digital GIS Layer illustrating lakes and rivers within Ontario at a scale of 1:1,000,000. Please note that this data set is dated and has not been maintained since 1983. It is not intended for high accuracy geo-referencing but rather for approximate locations of features and general information.

Additional Documentation

• Metadata Information

  Language: eng; CAN

  Last Update: 2013-10-24

  Other Maintenance Requirements:

  0127022d-0072-439d-8a1c-0f2018024d78

  Metadata Contact:

  Scholars Portal, Ontario Council of University Libraries Toronto Ontario, Canada

  Contact Instructions:

  gis@scholarsportal.info

  Metadata Standard:

  North American Profile of ISO19115:2003 - Geographic Information

• Citation Information

  
  
  

  Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources Peterborough Ontario, Canada

  Themes or Categories of the Resource: inlandWaters

  Keywords:

  MAPPING, BASE MAPPING, RIVER, RIVERS, LAKE, LAKES, DATABASES, DIGITAL TOPOGRAPHIC DATA BASE, DRAINAGE, WATER, HYDROLOGY, STREAMS, WATER MANAGEMENT

  WATER, HYDROLOGY, WATER MANAGEMENT, MAPPING, RIVERS, LAKES, STREAMS, DRAINAGE

  Water, Eau, Hydrology, Hydrologie, Water management, Gestion de l'eau, Rivers, Cours d'eau, Lakes, Lac, Databases, Base de données, Drainage, Drainage

  Place Keywords:

  Continent > North America > Canada > Ontario

  Purpose:

  The theme provides a synthetic view of major water areas in the Province of Ontario.

  Dataset Language: eng; CAN

  Status: completed

  Update Frequency: irregular

  Spatial Representation Type: vector

  Extent

  West Longitude: -95.158191

  East Longitude: -74.307165

  North Latitude: 56.075950

  South Latitude: 41.376789

  
  

  Supplemental Information:

  Horizontal: Reliable: +/- 100 m; Vertical: Unknown

• Spatial Representation - Vector

  Geometric Objects:

  Object Type: composite

  Object Count: 304

• Reference System Information

  Reference System Identifier

  Value: 4269

  Code Space: http://www.epsg-registry.org/

• Data Quality Information

  Scope Level: dataset

  
  

  Ontario Mineral map: The base for this digital product was digitized from the Ontario mineral map. The map scale is 1 inch to 25 miles or 1 : 1,158,000. Data collected on 01/01/1983. This map contains certain fixed coverages that will not require updating or modification such as, Grid, Ontario Lake and Zones. However the remaining coverages (Counties, Drainage, Municipal, Parks, Railways, Township and WMU) will nessesitate regular changes and updates to the data.

• Distribution Information

  Distributor:

  Ontario Geospatial Data Exchange, Ministry of Natural Resources (OMNR) Peterborough Ontario, Canada