Socioeconomic applications of GIS - GEOG 307

The Walter Hitschfeld Geographic Information Centre is the primary
resource for geospatial data at McGill University.

Selected Resources:

• General Data, Cultural Features and Boundaries
• Urban Maps and Data (Montreal)
• Population Census Data
• Transportation Data
• Topographic Data
• Airphotos and Satellite Imagery
• Other Data Resources for Montreal

Please Note: Most of our data sets are licensed to McGill University; use is restricted to students, faculty and staff for academic teaching and research purposes. You may be required to sign a Data License Agreement form before using this data.

For a complete list of the geospatial resources available at McGill, click here.

General Data, Cultural Features and Boundaries

• CanMap Street Files.
  Detailed street data for Canada, including general points of interest and political boundaries.
• Enhanced Points of Interest
  Locations of Canadian businesses, institutions and other points of interest, classified by SIC.
• Platinum Postal Suite
  Postal code locations in Canada.
• Socio-economic boundaries of Quebec 1:250 000
  A geospatial database of boundaries for administrative areas, school, electoral, clsc and rss health districts.
• CanMap Parks and Recreation
  Boundaries of over 1600 parks and recreation areas.
• Digital Electoral Districts and Polling Divisions
  2003 representation order.
• Geospatial One Stop
  Clearinghouse for United States governmental geographic data.
• Global Administrative Areas
  GADM is a spatial database of the location of the world's administrative areas.
• FAO Geonetwork
  The FAO GeoNetwork provides access to interactive maps, satellite imagery and related spatial databases maintained by FAO and its partners.

Urban Maps and Data (Montreal)

• Montreal Cartographic Plans
• Montreal Cadastral Plans
• Montreal General Landuse
• SIURS 1999 (Spatial Referenced Urban Information System of Montreal)
• Montreal Fire Insurance Plans (BANQ)

Population Census Data

• Canada Census Cartographic and Boundary Files 1986-2006
  GIS files of census tracts, census subdivisions, etc.
• CanMap Census Boundary Files
• Canadian Census Analyser 1961-2006 (Census Data files)
  Attribute data to join with the Census Boundary/Cartographic Files.
• Census Tract (CT) Profiles, 2006 Census
  Visualize the data for a specific census tract via a map and/or retrieve related profile data.
• U.S Census Bureau
  Attribute data to join with the Census Tiger Files available at Geospatial One Stop.

Transportation Data

• CanMap Rail
  A database of Canada's rail infrastructure.
• CanMap RouteLogistics
  A data set used for routing and fleet management, market analysis, target marketing, site location analysis, customer service and asset management.
• ESRI Data and Maps
  Map data for different regions of the world, including: Canada, Mexico, the United States and Europe. Each level of geography includes basemap layers such as boundaries, cities, rivers, and roads.
• STM (Société de Transport de Montréal) Transit Data
  A geospatial database of transit data, including: bus routes, metro lines, and commuter rail stops.

Topographic Data

• BDTQ
  Base de données topographiques du Québec. 1:20 000 topographic data of Quebec in e00 format.
• CTMQ
  Cartes topographiques 20K Matriciel. 1:20 000 topographic data of Quebec in geotiff format.

Airphotos and Satellite Imagery

• Orthophotos
• Satellite Imagery

Other Data Resources for Montreal

• Montreal Maps Online
• Montreal Services and Information

Walter Hitschfeld Geographic Information Centre
2011