Layer Toggles using Google Maps

LabeledMarker Example: Toggling Marker Groups & Labels

Even better, this one uses KML layers: http://gmaps-samples.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ggeoxml/ggeoxml_loader2.html

Topo To Raster Tool in ArcGIS

"Topo to Raster 3D analyst tool" in ArcGIS 9.2 ArcToolbox allowed me to
take a random Z value point Shapefile and convert to a Raster file. I
then took the raster file to create contours from the raster.

Toronto Lakeshore changes since 1850

Geoscape Toronto - Lakeshores

National Historical Geographic Information System

Welcome to NHGIS — National Historical Geographic Information System

Customizing your OpenLayers by Examples

OpenLayers is a great alternative to Google Maps to customize interactive maps on your web pages.

OpenLayers Examples

City of Toronto: Toronto Fire Services

Streaming data of incidents as they are being dispatched from the city of Toronto's Computer Aided Dispatch system City of Toronto: Toronto Fire Services

Increased Accuracy for Canadian Maps

Natural Elements: Increased Accuracy for Canadian Maps: "parts of the country, likely due to the early surveying and"

ColorBrewer Intro - Selecting Good Color Schemes for Maps

ColorBrewer Intro - Selecting Good Color Schemes for Maps

Google Earth users outnumber Brazil's population | Tech news blog - CNET News.com

Google Earth users outnumber Brazil's population | Tech news blog - CNET News.com

SSHRC Research Data Archiving Policy

Publicly funded data should be available to the Canadian public! Research Data Archiving Policy - Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

GenGoogle a Myth?

ACCESS | Asia 's Newspaper on Electronic Information Product & Service
Can the same be said for spatial/geo literacy?

Bike Bate - U of T Police introduce new anti-theft technology (Sep 29/06)

It's an old article but a good demonstration of the uses of GPS technology.
University of Toronto -- News@UofT -- U of T Police introduce new anti-theft technology (Sep 29/06): "Nero Global Tracking"

Lost River Walks Urban Ecology - Toronto

Lost River Walks Urban Ecology

Includes a number of interactive maps showing sewers and lost rivers in Toronto.

Greater Toronto Area 1m contour and DEM layers available

A new batch of contour files for the GTA fell in our laps and are now
available online at

http://atlantis.chass.utoronto.ca/maplib/cgi-bin/datainventory.pl?idnum=682&display=full
These are at 1m intervals. The zipped files contain both the autocad and
shapefile format files.
The DEMs can be found at this link: http://atlantis.chass.utoronto.ca/maplib/cgi-bin/datainventory.pl?idnum=683&display=full