Open Data

Geospatial Data Downloads

The Quinte Source Protection staff maintains a database of spatial and tabular records for its geographic information system (GIS). You can download the GIS data directly from our Open Data Hub. Refer to the "Governing License" column in the data list for details on the use constraints of each individual data package.

Data Catalogue

By accessing or downloading any data or third party data package, you agree to be bound by the associated license. Information on the Quinte Source Protection Area data policy and licensing details can be found below the following table.

Quinte Source Protection Area Data Policy

Data sharing allows our partners, stakeholders, businesses, and the public to extend the use of Quinte Source Protection Area data, helping us achieve implementation of the Source Protection Plan, and aids us in achieving our goal to have an open and transparent process. Quinte Source Protection staff strives to make data as widely available as possible while safeguarding personal Information and protecting confidential and proprietary third party data.

The sharing of data encourages greater connection and collaboration between parties, which can result in important new findings. Sharing data also encourages diversity of analysis and opinion, increased transparency and can lead to more informed decision making related to environmental policies and planning.

Licensing Details

Data available from the Quinte Source Protection program is provided under the terms of an Open Data License. We will continue to review our data and licensing approach and are committed to providing access to more data over time. Quinte Conservation Authority (QCA) may make changes to the data or the terms of these licenses from time to time, to be released in the form of data, or a new version of the license. Your use of the Information will be governed by the terms of the license in force as of the date you accessed the Information.

Introduced in 2019, our Open Data License allows you to distribute, modify and build upon our work, even commercially, as long as you credit the QCA on behalf of the Quinte Source Protection program for the original creation; and, license new creations under identical terms. This is our most accommodating license and allows for advantageous dissemination and use of the Quinte Source Protection program's licensed Information. This is a human-readable summary of (and not a substitute for) the QCA Open Data License v1.0.

For more information on open data visit Quinte Conservation's main Geographic Information Systems page.