Green Spaces

Green Spaces is a geospatial dataset of polygons that is a point-in-time generalized representation of existing parks and open spaces within the City of Toronto. Green Spaces includes public parks, beaches, parts of ravines, golf courses, cemeteries, and other open space areas such as those offered by various private institutions. These spaces may or may not be publicly accessible and are either publicly owned/maintained or they are privately owned/maintained. Green Spaces is not an exhaustive dataset of all the public and private parks and open spaces within the City. It does not encompass all areas protected by the Ravine and Natural Feature Protection By-Law, by Environmentally Significant Areas or by Natural Heritage Areas.

Green Spaces is primarily intended to visualize our existing overall parks and open space system. It is used to symbolize the green coloured areas in many of the City's mapping products such as Toronto's Interactive Map or the Toronto Parkland Strategy[^1].

This dataset is jointly maintained by the Geospatial Competency Centre (GCC) and the Parks, Forestry & Recreation division (PFR). The attribute field in this dataset titled "AREA_CLASS" indicates whether the GCC or PFR maintain the data and the type of green space it is.

PFR Green Spaces

PFR Green Spaces are owned and/or operated by the City of Toronto and are derived from PFR's Parkland Asset Repository. They include the area classes: Park, Golf Course, Cemetery, Hydro Field/Utility Corridor, and others. Representation of Green Spaces can change overtime – due to new park acquisitions, development/reconfiguration of land etc. – PFR works to continuously improve the City-PFR-owned portions of this dataset as new information arises.

GCC Green Spaces

All other Green Spaces were created by the GCC and include area classes with the prefix of "OTHER_". These green spaces are derived through city-wide parcel analysis.

[^1]This Green Spaces layer cannot be used to reproduce the results of the 2019 Parkland Strategy, however the GCC Green Spaces portions of the dataset was used to help visualize Other Open Spaces in "Figure 06: Toronto’s Parks and Open Space Network" of the report. The Toronto Parkland Strategy is currently in the process of being updated and new parkland data is not yet finalized.

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Last Updated October 4, 2024, 04:48 (UTC)
Created October 4, 2024, 02:37 (UTC)
Domain / Topic
Domain or topic of the dataset being cataloged.
City government,Locations and mapping,Parks and recreation
Format (CSV, XLS, TXT, PDF, etc)
File format of the dataset.
.csv - text/csv, application/geopackage+sqlite3, .json - application/json, application/vnd.shp
Dataset Size
Dataset size in megabytes.
Metadata Identifier
Metadata identifier – can be used as the unique identifier for catalogue entry
Published Date
Published date of the dataset.
2022-07-14
Time Period Data Span (start date)
Start date of the data in the dataset.
Time Period Data Span (end date)
End date of time data in the dataset.
GeoSpatial Area Data Span
A spatial region or named place the dataset covers.
Field Value
Access category
Type of access granted for the dataset (open, closed, service, etc).
Limits on use
Limits on use of data.
Location
Location of the dataset.
https://open.toronto.ca/dataset/green-spaces
Data Service
Data service for accessing a dataset.
Owner
Owner of the dataset.
Parks, Forestry & Recreation, gcc@toronto.ca
Contact Point
Who to contact regarding access?
Publisher
Publisher of the dataset.
Publisher Email
Email of the publisher.
gcc@toronto.ca
Author
Author of the dataset.
gcc@toronto.ca
Author Email
Email of the author.
gcc@toronto.ca
Accessed At
Date the data and metadata was accessed.
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Identifier
Unique identifier for the dataset.
Language
Language(s) of the dataset
Link to dataset description
A URL to an external document describing the dataset.
Persistent Identifier
Data is identified by a persistent identifier.
Globally Unique Identifier
Data is identified by a persistent and globally unique identifier.
Contains data about individuals
Does the data hold data about individuals?
Contains data about identifiable individuals
Does the data hold identifiable data about individual?
Contains Indigenous Data
Does the data hold data about Indigenous communities?
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Version notes
Version notes about the dataset.
Is version of another dataset
Link to dataset that it is a version of.
Other versions
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Provenance Text
Provenance Text of the data.
Provenance URL
Provenance URL of the data.
Temporal resolution
Describes how granular the date/time data in the dataset is.
GeoSpatial resolution in meters
Describes how granular (in meters) geospatial data is in the dataset.
GeoSpatial resolution (in regions)
Describes how granular (in regions) geospatial data is in the dataset.
Field Value
Indigenous Community Permission
Who holds the Indigenous Community Permission. Who to contact regarding access to a dataset that has data about Indigenous communities.
Community Permission
Community permission (who gave permission).
The Indigenous communities the dataset is about
Indigenous communities from which data is derived.
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Number of data rows
If tabular dataset, total number of rows.
Number of data columns
If tabular dataset, total number of unique columns.
Number of data cells
If tabular dataset, total number of cells with data.
Number of data relations
If RDF dataset, total number of triples.
Number of entities
If RDF dataset, total number of entities.
Number of data properties
If RDF dataset, total number of unique properties used by the triples.
Data quality
Describes the quality of the data in the dataset.
Metric for data quality
A metric used to measure the quality of the data, such as missing values or invalid formats.

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