Building Footprints (BFR) Coordinate system: 4326 - "WGS 84" Abstract: A building footprint is a polygon that represents the rooftop of a detached building and includes features such as city hall, fire stations, schools, churches or police stations. Note: In 2012, there was a datum change from NAD83 to WGS84.

Additional Documentation

• Metadata Information

  Language: eng; CAN

  Last Update: 2015-06-25

  Other Maintenance Requirements:

  This metadata was automatically generated from the FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadatastandard version FGDC-STD-001-1998.

  Metadata Contact:

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

  http://scholarsportal.info

  Contact Instructions:

  gis@scholarsportal.info

  Metadata Standard:

  ISO 19115-2

• Citation Information

  
  
  

  Series

  Name: CanMap RouteLogistics

  
  

  DMTI Spatial Inc. Markham Ontario, Canada

  Themes or Categories of the Resource: structure

  Keywords:

  Building, Building footprint, Footprint, BUILDINGS - FOOTPRINTS

  Buildings, Bâtiment

  Place Keywords:

  Continent > North America > Canada

  Purpose:

  To create a topographic dataset within urban areas which can be used for cartographic display, facilities management and location based services.

  Dataset Language: eng; CAN

  Status: completed

  Update Frequency: quarterly

  Spatial Representation Type: vector

  Processing Environment:

  Native Dataset Environment: Microsoft Windows 2000 Version 5.2 (Build 3790) Service Pack 2; ESRI ArcCatalog 8.3.0.800

  Extent

  West Longitude: -135.144293

  East Longitude: -52.654838

  North Latitude: 68.366397

  South Latitude: 42.005081

  
  

  Supplemental Information:

  Building footprints were created from 50k NTDB data. Additions and realignment work was completed in 2002.

  DMTI Spatial Inc Markham Ontario, Canada

• Spatial Representation - Vector

  Geometric Objects:

  Object Type: composite

  Object Count: 266782

• Reference System Information

  Reference System Identifier

  Value: 4326

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

• Data Quality Information

  Scope Level: dataset

  
  

  Process step:

  Dataset copied.

• Distribution Information

  Distributor:

  DMTI Spatial Inc. Markham Ontario, Canada