Description
A Township is a land subdivision in Ontario. This information was captured through the Ontario Base Mapping Program, is maintained by the Ministry of Natural Resources and distributed through Geospatial Ontario (GEO) Warehouse. The spatial accuracy for some of the townships was improved through the Ontario Parcel, Township Realignment and Township Improvement projects. Improvements may include: * road allowance widths * spatial changes to better represent where the township boundaries are located * more consistent concession names Materials used to improve the location of township lines may include: * township Improvement plots * survey information i.e. retracements * original township plans * surveys notes * the physical features e.g. fence lines in the corporate editing environment * water bodies * GPS Ontario Road Network geometry This product requires the use of geographic information system (GIS) software.
Resources
| Name | Format | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Original metadata (https://data.ontario.ca) | HTML | Open resource | |
| Original metadata (https://data.ontario.ca/fr) | HTML | Open resource | |
| Cantons géographiques (version améliorée) | HTML | Open resource | |
| Geographic Township Improved | HTML | Open resource | |
| Complete File Geodatabase (extracted from geohub) | ZIP | Open resource | |
| Complete Shapefile (extracted from geohub) | ZIP | Open resource | |
| Geographic Township Improved (extracted from geohub) | Ersi REST | Open resource | |
| Geographic Township Improved (extracted from geohub) | Ersi REST | Open resource | |
| QGIS Layer Definition File (.qlr) (extracted from geohub) | Unknown | Open resource |