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Service Description: Images hosted on Historical Maps of Toronto.
Atlas of the City of Toronto by the Chas. E. Goad Company 1889

This set of fire insurance plans covers downtown Toronto and the Toronto Islands. These maps were scanned and georeferenced as part of the Georia Project at the University of Toronto (http://mercator.geog.utoronto.ca/georia/menu.htm) from an original atlas at Toronto Public Library, Toronto Reference Library (Atlas Collection). Fire insurance plans provide detailed information about the history of the buildings and land use. Building outlines are included in the maps. These maps can be used to determine when a building was built or demolished, the details of building materials, the position of a building on a lot, and in some cases the name or function of the business.

This map service includes a mosaic of several volumes of plat maps that were originally bound atlases. The mosaic was created using ArcGIS software from the scanned JPEG images, varying from 150-300 dpi.  The images were georeferenced to WGS84 Web Mercator and the borders were clipped to create a contiguous map.

This map was georeferenced using ArcGIS software.  The image was then cached to create this map service.

This product is to be used for reference purposes only. The original historical paper maps were sometimes damaged or distorted to varying degrees due to age and use. There are spatial inaccuracies and some places where the footprints do not lineup perfectly or in some cases overlap.



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Atlas of the City of Toronto by the Chas. E. Goad Company 1889

This set of fire insurance plans covers downtown Toronto and the Toronto Islands. These maps were scanned and georeferenced as part of the Georia Project at the University of Toronto (http://mercator.geog.utoronto.ca/georia/menu.htm) from an original atlas at Toronto Public Library, Toronto Reference Library (Atlas Collection). Fire insurance plans provide detailed information about the history of the buildings and land use. Building outlines are included in the maps. These maps can be used to determine when a building was built or demolished, the details of building materials, the position of a building on a lot, and in some cases the name or function of the business.

This map service includes a mosaic of several volumes of plat maps that were originally bound atlases. The mosaic was created using ArcGIS software from the scanned JPEG images, varying from 150-300 dpi.  The images were georeferenced to WGS84 Web Mercator and the borders were clipped to create a contiguous map.

This map was georeferenced using ArcGIS software.  The image was then cached to create this map service.

This product is to be used for reference purposes only. The original historical paper maps were sometimes damaged or distorted to varying degrees due to age and use. There are spatial inaccuracies and some places where the footprints do not lineup perfectly or in some cases overlap.



Copyright Text: Toronto Public Library, Library and Archives Canada, and City of Toronto Archives

Spatial Reference:
102100

Single Fused Map Cache: true

Capabilities: Map,TilesOnly,Tilemap

Tile Info:
Initial Extent:
Full Extent:
Min Scale: 144447.638572
Max Scale: 2256.994353

Min LOD: 12
Max LOD: 18

Units: esriMeters

Supported Image Format Types: PNG

Export Tiles Allowed: false
Max Export Tiles Count: 100000

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