Scholars Geo Portal
Ontario university consortium geoportal offering 5,000+ vector layers (land cover, transportation, boundaries, etc.) and 3 million aerial images dating back to the 1920s.
Who can use it? TMU students, faculty, and staff (sign in with your my.torontomu.ca credentials).
Best-for tasks:
- Province-wide environmental or land-use analysis
- Historical change detection with vintage air-photo mosaics
- Search by keyword or zoom the interactive map and use the “Download” button.
- Download ready-to-use Shapefile, GeoPackage, or TIFF.
- Tip Use the “Browse by … Subject” option (e.g., Transportation, Imagery) to narrow huge result sets quickly.
Need help? Use the Scholars GeoPortal guide.
Simply Analytics
A web-based mapping and data-analysis platform that lets you create interactive thematic maps, tables, and charts from 240 000+ Canadian variables, demographics, consumer spending, psychographics (PRIZM), and business counts. Data providers include Environics Analytics Group, Inc. and Dun and Bradstreet Canada.
Who can use it? Current TMU students, faculty, and staff.
Best for tasks
- Rapid market-area or neighbourhood profiling
- Comparing demographic trends across custom trade areas or census zones
- Generating publication-ready infographics without desktop GIS
Open Data Portals (coming soon)
Open data is typically released under Creative Commons, Open Government, or similar licenses. These datasets can be used, modified, and shared by anyone, for any purpose, at no cost. These portals provide ready-to-download GIS files (e.g., Shapefile, GeoPackage, GeoJSON, GeoTIFF). Maintained by governments, NGOs, and research consortia, these well documented, regularly updated datasets are perfect for coursework and reproducible mapping.
TMU Geo Hub (coming soon)
An internal data portal offering TMU licensed spatial data that you won’t find in public open-data sites.
What’s inside
- Campus layers – building footprints, floor plans, barrier-free routes, Wi-Fi heat maps
- Greater Toronto datasets – parcel fabrics, planning boundaries, heritage inventories
- Licensed supplements – high-resolution ortho-imagery and vendor basemaps under library subscription
- Every item includes full metadata, and various downloadable formats (Shapefile, GeoPackage, GeoTIFF, CSV).