Buildings

Building footprints/rooflines as captured from Aerial Imagery and Building Permits. Maintained by Corporate GIS.

Polygon Building feature class for the City of Kingston. Building and Building Structures are maintained/updated every 6 months to 1 year using the latest aerial imagery. This produces a Roofline status or in some cases a Foundation status. Buildings that are added between Ortho Photo collection periods are done via Building Permit and are foundation status. Non permanent structures such as sheds smaller than 5m are most often not produced. Demolished buildings are not removed but are given a demolished status. As with all planimetric feature data, the Building feature class is frequently being updated, therefore the data is not considered complete in nature.

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• BuildingsFeature Layer

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• Building Services
• Canada
• GIS
• General
• Housing
• Kingston
• Ontario
• Planning and Development
• basemap
• buildings
• cartography
• facilities
• foundation
• map
• roof
• ruin
• structures
• topo
• topographic

Additional Info

• Maturity Level 1 (54%)
• Maturity Level 2 (69%)
• Maturity Level 3 (44%)
• Maturity Level 4 (10%)
• Maturity Level 5 (0%)
• Maturity Level 6 (38%)

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Last Updated	March 24, 2026, 22:31 (UTC)
Created	March 24, 2026, 22:31 (UTC)
Domain / Topic Domain or topic of the dataset being cataloged.
Title Title for the Dataset.	Buildings
Description A description of the dataset.	Building footprints/rooflines as captured from Aerial Imagery and Building Permits. Maintained by Corporate GIS. Polygon Building feature class for the City of Kingston. Building and Building Structures are maintained/updated every 6 months to 1 year using the latest aerial imagery. This produces a Roofline status or in some cases a Foundation status. Buildings that are added between Ortho Photo collection periods are done via Building Permit and are foundation status. Non permanent structures such as sheds smaller than 5m are most often not produced. Demolished buildings are not removed but are given a demolished status. As with all planimetric feature data, the Building feature class is frequently being updated, therefore the data is not considered complete in nature.
Tags / Keywords Keywords/tags categorizing the dataset.	Building Services Canada GIS General Housing Kingston Ontario Planning and Development basemap buildings cartography facilities foundation map roof ruin structures topo topographic
Format (CSV, XLS, TXT, PDF, etc) File format of the dataset.
Dataset Size Dataset size in megabytes.	0.08
Metadata Identifier Metadata identifier – can be used as the unique identifier for catalogue entry
Published Date Published date of the dataset.	2023-06-13
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.	By downloading or accessing the data in this dataset, you agree to the City of Kingston's Open Data License and the following additional terms and conditions:The Corporation of the City of Kingston assumes no responsibility for inaccurate or inconsistent data set out in this map product. The City does not accept any responsibility for reliance thereon. The City does not make any representations or warranty, express or implied, in relation to the website including without limitations, as to the quality, merchantability and fitness for any use. Further, the City does not accept any responsibility for the accuracy of this information, nor is it responsible for any expenses or damages incurred, directly or indirectly, resulting from the use of this information.
Limits on use Limits on use of data.
Location Location of the dataset.	https://opendatakingston.cityofkingston.ca/datasets/cityofkingston::buildings-1
Data Service Data service for accessing a dataset.
Owner Owner of the dataset.	kingstonarcgisadmin
Contact Point Who to contact regarding access?	The City of Kingston
Contact Point Email The email to contact regarding access?	https://mycity.cityofkingston.ca/app/ask
Publisher Publisher of the dataset.	The City of Kingston
Publisher Email Email of the publisher.
Author Author of the dataset.	kingstonarcgisadmin
Author Email Email of the author.
Accessed At Date the data and metadata was accessed.	2023-06-13

Field	Value
Identifier Unique identifier for the dataset.	4c2e77dc07614be39db165eeedcad584
Language Language(s) of the dataset	English
Link to dataset description A URL to an external document describing the dataset.	https://opendatakingston.cityofkingston.ca/datasets/cityofkingston::buildings-1
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.	The City of Kingston
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.	63895
Number of data columns If tabular dataset, total number of unique columns.	30
Number of data cells If tabular dataset, total number of cells with data.	1916850
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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