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Flying season begins as soon as the snow is gone and ends when trees are budding leaves. We stick to this tight time frame to ensure ground features will be visible in the imagery.
Contact us now to order Spring 2019 imagery to ensure we can accommodate you during our busy “leaf off” image collection season.
Where We Fly:
North America & the Caribbean
What We Deliver:
Raw or ortho imagery
The big smoke never looked so clear!
The final delivery of Spring 2018 aerial imagery is here!
Coverage includes:
City of Toronto (8 cm)
York Region (10cm)
Niagara Region (10cm)
Visit MapWarehouse to download 500m x 500m sections of the aerial photo mosaic, geo-referenced and application ready.
VuMAP and MapCast users will see the new layers added shortly.
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Locate your area of interest on a map and search for data covering that area. Add items to your cart, enter a credit card, then download the files. Save the data locally to use in your CAD or GIS based project.
MapCast
Web Mapping Service
Your team’s annual subscription serves an aerial image base layer and contour elevations directly into your CAD or GIS software. No large files to download or store.
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VuMAP
Online Application
Your annual subscription allows unlimited access through a web browser to view the same data as found on MapWarehouse and more, plus easy to use built-in tools to analyze, plan, and communicate spatial information.
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Aerial imagery gives us technology to look at history from a new perspective. Test your knowledge of local history sites below. Question 1. What’s this site in Toronto known for?…
Ontario’s Largest Geospatial Data Marketplace
Search for data, select files covering your location, download your order, and work with aerial imagery and geographic data. Use the interactive map to locate your area of interest and purchase multiple data sets easily and quickly with a credit card.
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Access Every Place From One Place
View geographic data, query the map for more information, measure ground features you see in the imagery, and report on your research using this feature-packed online mapping application. Compare imagery year by year and research land information from anywhere.
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Unlimited Access To Ontario’s Largest Web Mapping Service
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Real Simple Real Estate Marketing
Get instant access to Ontario parcel boundaries drawn over high resolution aerial imagery. Generate three custom aerial images for your real estate listing focused on your property; a great way to market large, remote, or irregularly shaped properties.
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Hard Copy Prints
Order our Downtown Toronto laminated aerial photo wall map with street name index for your lobby or board room, or, have us create a custom layout for your site with aerial imagery, contour elevations, parcel boundaries, plus data you provide.
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*** All imagery is from early Spring collections unless stated otherwise in the notes section on each map. ***
Download All Ontario Ortho Coverages 2000 – 2022
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Orthophoto An orthophoto is an aerial photograph geometrically corrected such that the scale and overhead perspective is uniform, enabling users to measure true direction and distance.
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Satellite Earth imaging satellites from our data partners DigitalGlobe and Planet Labs Geomatics capture high and mid-resolution imagery around the world, year round. Order new or archived imagery including infrared radiation outside the visible spectrum.
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Teranet Parcel Mapping Access a centralized library of the province’s 7.5 million parcels of land. The database contains digital mapping for property boundaries in Ontario along with attributes to uniquely identify each parcel.
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LiDAR Laser pulses from aircraft are used to collect point clouds from the reflected pulses. The point cloud is used to create digital elevation models depicting the bare earth.
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Elevations First Base Solutions produces digital elevation models and 1m contours for areas covered by our orthophoto, or, we can source worldwide topographic coverage provided by DigitalGlobe.
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Ontario Base Maps OBM, or “topos” are a province-wide series of general-purpose topographic maps produced by the MNR, providing an excellent reference map for navigation in rural and backwoods regions.
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Flood Plain Mapping Regulatory flood line mapping defines the known historical and predicted high water levels based on the 100-year storm event for lakes and rivers in the Toronto area.
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Oak Ridges Moraine Groundwater Get 3D digital strata models of geological and hydrogeological subsurface layers across the Oak Ridges Moraine and it’s drainage areas in the GTA, from the Kawarthas to the Niagara Escarpment.
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Blog: Key concepts in digital mapping for professionals in any industry
Maps have great visual appeal. They’re easy to understand and interpret. They make boring data look like extraordinary data. They help you interpret other types of documents. They are time stamped objective records of the past. They’re also inexpensive and easy to get..
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Blog: How To Get The Newest Data First
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Ontario’s Largest Geospatial Data Marketplace
Search for data, select files covering your location, download your order, and work with aerial imagery and geographic data. Use the interactive map to locate your area of interest and purchase multiple data sets easily and quickly with a credit card.
Go Now | Learn More
Access Every Place From One Place
View geographic data, query the map for more information, measure ground features you see in the imagery, and report on your research using this feature-packed online mapping application. Compare imagery year by year and research land information from anywhere.
Go Now
| Learn More
Unlimited Access To Ontario’s Largest Web Mapping Service
Connect to a high resolution aerial imagery mosaic base layer and elevation contours served directly to your CAD or GIS workstation, just as you would connect to data stored locally. Bandwidth based pricing allows your team to use MapCast as little or as much as you need.
Go Now | Learn More
Contact Us For Special Orders
We can help you determine the best products for your specific project and navigate the ordering process. Even if you don’t see what you’re looking for through the services above, call us, we can arrange custom tailored solutions. Contact customer service for assistance.
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Blog: Introducing Our Newest Data Partner: Planet Labs Geomatics
There’s a million new reasons to choose MapWarehouse. First Base Solutions has entered a new reseller agreement with Planet Labs Geomatics, a provider of commercial satellite imagery, to bring over 1,000,000 square km of new Ontario imagery to MapWarehouse, and that’s just the beginning!..
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