OCUL is pleased to announce the release of Scholars GeoPortal
Scholars GeoPortal is an award-winning geospatial data discovery tool allowing Ontario’s university students and researchers to enrich their teaching and research by engaging with OCUL’s growing collection of geospatial data. The portal offers search, preview, query, download and sharing functionality for datasets licensed by Ontario university libraries, covering such topics as land use, transportation networks, census boundaries, geology, soils, points of interest (such as healthcare facilities, schools, and airports), air photos, and more.
Scholars GeoPortal’s features include:
- full-text searching
- geographic searching by place names and addresses, or by drawing a box on the map
- adding data to the map view & manipulating the transparency and draw order of layers on the map
- selecting from a variety of base maps
- identifying individual features on the map
- viewing and querying attribute tables
- annotating the map by marking and labeling points and shapes of interest
- saving maps to your user account
- printing, exporting, or sharing (linking to) your map
- downloading data in a variety of formats and projections
- both French and English language interfaces
For more information on OCUL’s Scholars GeoPortal, please contact:
Rosa Orlandini
Map and GIS Librarian
York University Libraries
416-736-2100 ext. 88863
Scholars GeoPortal’s collections currently include data from Statistics Canada (through the Data Liberation Initiative), Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (through the Ontario Geospatial Data Exchange), and DMTI Spatial Inc. Data from these providers is continually being added to the portal – check out the latest additions under “New Data” on the Scholars GeoPortal website.
