Points of Interest

Points of interest contains a wide array of locations and services covering items such as government offices, post offices, shopping centres, recreation centres, food banks, early years, and emergency services.

Points of interest (POI) includes a wide array of features. These features are usually locations that are of interest to the public. The data is collected from a variety of sources, including web searches, data from external partners, and data from internal departments.

Data categories range from institutional to public housing to early years centres. Some examples of the categories contained within the data are:

  • Arts, museum, and cultural spaces

  • Emergency responder stations: fire, police, and paramedics

  • Institutional buildings: city/town halls, court houses, libraries

  • Hospitals, medical centres, and walk-in clinics

  • Housing: public housing, co-operative housing, shelters

  • Food banks

  • Long term care homes and retirement homes

  • Post offices

  • Recreation centres and other municipal meeting places: arenas, pools, community centres, meeting halls

  • Settlement services and other related services for immigrants and newcomers

  • Shopping centres: plazas, big box centres, and malls

  • Transportation: airports, major bus stations, and passenger rail stations

Please note that the Interim Place shelters must not be shared publicly or externally.

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Last Updated June 16, 2026, 19:49 (UTC)
Created March 24, 2026, 20:52 (UTC)
Domain / Topic
Domain or topic of the dataset being cataloged.
Title
Title for the Dataset.
Points of Interest
Description
A description of the dataset.

Points of interest contains a wide array of locations and services covering items such as government offices, post offices, shopping centres, recreation centres, food banks, early years, and emergency services.

Points of interest (POI) includes a wide array of features. These features are usually locations that are of interest to the public. The data is collected from a variety of sources, including web searches, data from external partners, and data from internal departments.

Data categories range from institutional to public housing to early years centres. Some examples of the categories contained within the data are:

  • Arts, museum, and cultural spaces

  • Emergency responder stations: fire, police, and paramedics

  • Institutional buildings: city/town halls, court houses, libraries

  • Hospitals, medical centres, and walk-in clinics

  • Housing: public housing, co-operative housing, shelters

  • Food banks

  • Long term care homes and retirement homes

  • Post offices

  • Recreation centres and other municipal meeting places: arenas, pools, community centres, meeting halls

  • Settlement services and other related services for immigrants and newcomers

  • Shopping centres: plazas, big box centres, and malls

  • Transportation: airports, major bus stations, and passenger rail stations

Please note that the Interim Place shelters must not be shared publicly or externally.

Tags / Keywords
Keywords/tags categorizing the dataset.
Format (CSV, XLS, TXT, PDF, etc)
File format of the dataset.
Dataset Size
Dataset size in megabytes.
984.0
Metadata Identifier
Metadata identifier – can be used as the unique identifier for catalogue entry
DF1847A1-DE51-4C18-AEBA-B8AFEAD41B9C
Published Date
Published date of the dataset.
2019-12-06
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).
public
License
License used to access the dataset.
Open Data Licence for The Regional Municipality of Peel (Version 1.0)
Limits on use
Limits on use of data.
Location
Location of the dataset.
https://data.peelregion.ca/datasets/RegionofPeel::points-of-interest
Data Service
Data service for accessing a dataset.
Owner
Owner of the dataset.
[email protected]_RegionofPeel
Contact Point
Who to contact regarding access?
Regional Municipality of Peel
Contact Point Email
The email to contact regarding access?
http://www.peelregion.ca/
Publisher
Publisher of the dataset.
Regional Municipality of Peel
Publisher Email
Email of the publisher.
Author
Author of the dataset.
[email protected]_RegionofPeel
Author Email
Email of the author.
Accessed At
Date the data and metadata was accessed.
2025-01-17
Field Value
Identifier
Unique identifier for the dataset.
2f28a4aa168e40fba85afda276c7af39
Language
Language(s) of the dataset
English
Link to dataset description
A URL to an external document describing the dataset.
https://data.peelregion.ca/datasets/RegionofPeel::points-of-interest
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.
Field Value
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.
Information Management - Service Innovation, Information & Technology - Region of Peel
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.
Field Value
Number of data rows
If tabular dataset, total number of rows.
1866
Number of data columns
If tabular dataset, total number of unique columns.
17
Number of data cells
If tabular dataset, total number of cells with data.
31722
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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