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ESRI provides a set of data for use within ArcView, which may be used by University of Guelph faculty, students and staff.
Shape files can be downloaded from this page. ESRI also provides thematic maps on CD-ROM. For access contact the DRC.
Note: the linked files on this page are mostly .exe zipped files whhich must be downloaded to your computer. Some of these files are quite large.
Documentation
Elevation Data
- North America
Digital Elevation Model and Shaded Relief - World
Digital Elevation Model, Topography, Bathymetry and WorldSat Colour Shaded Relief Image
Canada
Metadata
- Metadata for Canada (Download site)
Base Map Data
- FSA postal centroids (.exe – 100kb)
- Highways (.exe – 850kb)
- Indian reserves (.exe – 314kb)
- Major cities (.exe – 67kb)
- Middle cities (.exe – 133kb)
- Municipalities (.exe – 10.4mb)
- National parks (.exe – 158kb)
- Provinces (.exe – 1mb)
- Railways (.exe – 345kb)
- Regional municipalities (.exe – 5.28mb)
- Telephone area code boundaries (.exe – 3.84mb)
- Water bodies (.exe – 6.45mb)
Europe
Metadata
- Metadata for Europe (Download site)
Base Map Data
- Cities (.exe – 107kb)
- Countries (.exe – 14.7mb)
- Ferries (.exe – 126kb)
- Level 1 provinces (.exe – 21.8mb)
- Level 2 provinces (.exe – 24.2mb)
- Level 3 provinces (.exe – 21.2mb)
- Major roads (.exe – 17.2mb)
- Places (.exe – 1.64mb)
- Roads (.exe – 27.5mb)
- Major water (.exe – 20.9mb)
- Railroads (.exe – 19.3mb)
- Railroad stations (.exe – 1.46mb)
- Water bodies (.exe – 136mb)
Europe Demographics
- Province/State demographics (.exe – 20.8mb)
- Country demographics (.exe – 6mb)
- Regional demographics (.exe – 17.3mb)
- province/state purchasing power (.exe – 21.6mb)
Germany Zip Code Areas
- One digit zipcodes (.exe – 895kb)
- Two digit zipcodes (.exe – 2.05mb)
- Five digit zipcodes (.exe – 10mb)
- Layer files (.exe – 10mb)
Mexico
Metadata
- Metadata for Mexico (Download site)
Base Map Data
- Cities (.exe – 94kb)
- Contours (.exe – 3.09mb)
- Railroads (.exe – 224kb)
- Roads (.exe – 1.13mb)
- States (.exe – 917kb)
- Rivers & streams (.exe – 911kb)
- Water bodies (.exe – 1.80mb)
- Urban areas (.exe – 99.4kb)
United States
Census
- Telephone area code boundaries (.exe – 4.27mb)
- Block groups (.exe – 33.6mb)
- Block centroid populations (.exe – 80.5mb)
- 107th congressional districts (.exe – 1.29mb)
- 108th congressional districts (.exe – 1.23mb)
- Counties (.exe – 10.8mb)
- Metropolitan statistical areas (.exe – 613kb)
- Populated place points (.exe – 658kb)
- Tracts (.exe – 16.9mb)
- Three digit Zip code areas (.exe – 2.04mb)
- ZIP code areas (.exe – 7.17mb)
- ZIP code points (.exe – 821kb)
Tables
- county population estimates (.exe – 701kb)
- census feature class codes (.exe – 57.4kb)
Other
- Airports (.exe – 114kb)
- Cities (.exe – 717kb)
- Federal land lines (.exe – 155kb)
- Federal and indian land areas (.exe – 3mb)
- Buildings (.exe – 426kb)
- Cemetaries (.exe – 1.51mb)
- Churches (.exe – 2.09mb)
- Golf locales (.exe – 108kb)
- Hospitals (.exe – 171kb)
- Locales (.exe – 1.74mb)
- Populated places (.exe – 2.19mb)
- Schools (.exe – 2.17mb)
- Summits (.exe – 947kb)
- Highways (.exe – 9mb)
- Institutions (.exe – 4.19mb)
- Landmarks (.exe – 2.86mb)
- Major roads (.exe – 19.9mb)
- Park landmarks (.exe – 5.93mb)
- Public land survey (.exe – 4.04mb)
- Historic earthquakes (.exe – 110kb)
- Recreation areas (.exe – 162kb)
- Transportation terminals (.exe – 120kb)
- Volcanoes (.exe – 65kb)
USGS Topographic Quadrangle Series Indexes
State Plane Zones
StreetMap
- States (.exe – 123kb)
- Cities (.exe – 486kb)
- Urbanized areas (.exe – 510kb)
- Interstate highways (.exe – 762kb)
- Drainage areas (.exe – 79kb)
- Surrounding countries (.exe – 244kb)
- Lakes (.exe – 64kb)
- World map background (.exe – 49kb)
StreetMap Plus
- Detailed rivers & streams (.exe – 65.5mb)
- States (.exe – 3.79mb)
- Water bodies (.exe – 17.9mb)
- Water feature lines (.exe – 5.67mb)
- Water feature areas (.exe – 3.92mb)
- Parks (.exe – 2.64mb)
- Populated place areas (.exe – 12.4mb)
- Railroads (.exe – 4.45mb)
Streets
Detailed streets and major roads files are located in the Data Resource Centre only.
World
Metadata
- Metadata for the world (Download site)
Tables
- CountryWatch demographics (.exe – 87kb)
- Country memberships of political organizations (.exe – 59kb)
Other
- Countries (.exe – 60kb)
- Countries 2002 (.exe – 1.61mb)
- Countries 1992 (.exe – 1.56mb)
- Administrative units (.exe – 1.88mb)
- Cities (.exe – 163kb)
- Continents (.exe – 1.23mb)
- Drainage systems (.exe – 111kb)
- Gazetteer (.exe – 1.93mb)
- Latitude/longitude grids (.exe – 215kb)
- Lakes (.exe – 140kb)
- Rivers (.exe – 260kb)
- Time zones (.exe – 246kb)
- UTM zones (.exe – 215kb)
- World map background (.exe – 76kb)
- World Wildlife Fund Terrestrial Ecoregions (.exe – 48mb)
- World Wildlife Fund Marine Ecoregions (.exe – 114kb)
Data Access
Contact
519–824–4120 ext. 56417
Visit
The DRC is located behind the Research Help desk in the McLaughlin Library.