Niagara Escarpment Plan Designation

The Niagara Escarpment Plan designations are comprised of seven land use designations explaining how land shall be used throughout the area of the Niagara Escarpment Plan.

Depicts the internal boundaries of the Niagara Escarpment Plan area.

The seven land use designations are as follows:

Escarpment Natural Area
Escarpment Protection Area
Escarpment Rural Area
Minor Urban Centre (of which exists as a separate data class)
Urban Area
Escarpment Recreation Area
Mineral Resource Extraction Area.

The land use designations represent the internal boundaries between designations within the Niagara Escarpment Plan. These internal boundaries are not intended to be site-specific and should not be used for accurate measurements.

The exact delineation of designation boundaries on specific sites will be done by the implementing body through the application of the designation criteria as outlined in Part 1 of the Niagara Escarpment Plan, utilizing the most detailed or up-to-date information available and site inspection.

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Status On going: Data is continually being updated Maintenance and Update Frequency As needed: Data is updated as deemed necessary Contact Liyan Wang / Rebecca Burns, Niagara Escarpment Commission

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Last Updated	June 16, 2026, 20:36 (UTC)
Created	June 16, 2026, 20:36 (UTC)
Domain / Topic Domain or topic of the dataset being cataloged.
Title Title for the Dataset.	Niagara Escarpment Plan Designation
Description A description of the dataset.	The Niagara Escarpment Plan designations are comprised of seven land use designations explaining how land shall be used throughout the area of the Niagara Escarpment Plan. Depicts the internal boundaries of the Niagara Escarpment Plan area. The seven land use designations are as follows: Escarpment Natural Area Escarpment Protection Area Escarpment Rural Area Minor Urban Centre (of which exists as a separate data class) Urban Area Escarpment Recreation Area Mineral Resource Extraction Area. The land use designations represent the internal boundaries between designations within the Niagara Escarpment Plan. These internal boundaries are not intended to be site-specific and should not be used for accurate measurements. The exact delineation of designation boundaries on specific sites will be done by the implementing body through the application of the designation criteria as outlined in Part 1 of the Niagara Escarpment Plan, utilizing the most detailed or up-to-date information available and site inspection. Additional Documentation Niagara Escarpment Plan Designation - Data Description (PDF) Niagara Escarpment Plan Designation - Documentation (Word) Status On going: Data is continually being updated Maintenance and Update Frequency As needed: Data is updated as deemed necessary Contact Liyan Wang / Rebecca Burns, Niagara Escarpment Commission [email protected] [email protected]
Tags / Keywords Keywords/tags categorizing the dataset.	Escarpment Plan GeospatialOntario Greenbelt Plan MNR Ministry of... NEP Natural Resources Niagara Escarpment... Niagara Escarpment... ODCSYNC boundaries escarpment open data
Format (CSV, XLS, TXT, PDF, etc) File format of the dataset.
Dataset Size Dataset size in megabytes.	0.13
Metadata Identifier Metadata identifier – can be used as the unique identifier for catalogue entry	790f0d84a0bd462185220a241b92c949
Published Date Published date of the dataset.	2018-07-30
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.

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Access category Type of access granted for the dataset (open, closed, service, etc).	public
License License used to access the dataset.	Open Government Licence – Ontario
Limits on use Limits on use of data.
Location Location of the dataset.	https://ontariogeohub-lio.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/lio::niagara-escarpment-plan-designation
Data Service Data service for accessing a dataset.
Owner Owner of the dataset.	LandInformationOntario
Contact Point Who to contact regarding access?	Land Information Ontario
Contact Point Email The email to contact regarding access?	[email protected]
Publisher Publisher of the dataset.	Land Information Ontario
Publisher Email Email of the publisher.
Author Author of the dataset.	LandInformationOntario
Author Email Email of the author.
Accessed At Date the data and metadata was accessed.	2026-04-24

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Identifier Unique identifier for the dataset.	790f0d84a0bd462185220a241b92c949
Language Language(s) of the dataset	English
Link to dataset description A URL to an external document describing the dataset.	https://ontariogeohub-lio.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/lio::niagara-escarpment-plan-designation
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?
Portal Type Platform type of the source portal.

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Version Version of the datatset	None
Source Source of the dataset.	None
Version notes Version notes about the dataset.
Is version of another dataset Link to dataset that it is a version of.
Other versions Link to datasets that are versions of it.
Provenance Text Provenance Text of the data.	Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry
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.

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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.	1209
Number of data columns If tabular dataset, total number of unique columns.	10
Number of data cells If tabular dataset, total number of cells with data.	12090
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.

Niagara Escarpment Plan Designation

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