Municipal Boundary - Upper Tier and District Coordinate system: 4269 - "NAD83" Abstract: This layer contains areas of upper-tier and district municipalities in Ontario. An upper-tier municipality means a municipality of which two or more lower-tier municipalities form part for municipalities purposes. Municipal responsibilities set out under the Municipal Act and other Provincial legislation are split between the upper tier and lower tier municipalities. Territorial district means a geographic area in northern Ontario, which is described in the Territorial Division Act and is composed of municipalities, geographic townships, and unsurveyed territory.

Additional Documentation

• Metadata Information

  Language: eng; CAN

  Last Update: 2013-06-10

  Other Maintenance Requirements:

  52900063-3758-421c-a4bb-09b58b08804b

  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: boundaries

  Keywords:

  Municipalities, Municipal boundaries, Upper-tier, Districts

  Local governments, Administration locale, Municipalities, Municipalité, Management, Gestion

  Place Keywords:

  Continent > North America > Canada > Ontario

  Purpose:

  To identify the location of Upper Tiers and Territorial Districts.

  Dataset Language: eng; CAN

  Status: onGoing

  Update Frequency: annually

  Spatial Representation Type: vector

  Processing Environment:

  Data created using personal geodatabase version 8.3. 1) line feature class created 2) topology created to eliminate topological errors: - lines must not overlap - lines must not intersect - lines must not have dangles - lines must not have pseudos - lines must not intersect or touch interior 3) polygon feature class created from line feature class 4) another topology created on polygon feature class - polygons must not overlap - polygons must not have gaps 5) attributes assigned; Geodatabase.

  Extent

  West Longitude: -95.156087

  East Longitude: -74.321072

  North Latitude: 56.859039

  South Latitude: 41.676609

  
  

  Supplemental Information:

  Additional Time Period Information: Updates are done as required. Changes may occur as a result of correction of errors or improvement in positional accuracy, at any time.

• Spatial Representation - Vector

  Geometric Objects:

  Object Type: composite

  Object Count: 96

• Reference System Information

  Reference System Identifier

  Value: 4269

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

• Data Quality Information

  Scope Level: dataset

  
  

  Municipal boundaries from paper maps: Some of the data came from municipalities in the form of paper maps, Municipal boundaries obtained from paper maps.

  Municipal boundaries from digital sources: Some of the data came from municipalities in the form of digital data, Municipal boundaries provided in digital format.

  Wateredge: MNR water egde coverage.

• Distribution Information

  Distributor:

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