University of Guelph Library
Provider
Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources
Description
Land Information Ontario has collaborated with municipalities and the federal government to develop a geospatial database for Ontario's roads called the Ontario Road Network. The Ontario Road Network is a standard province-wide geo-referenced database that features information on the province's municipal roads, provincial highways, and resource access roads.
The Ontario Road Network contains attributes for more than 190,000 kms of roads with a positional accuracy of 10 metres or less. The attributes describe road characteristics such as street names and road numbers, address information, road classifications, surface type and condition, direction of traffic flow, and speed limits. 158,000 km contain street names and address information.
The Ontario Road Network is to the Government Information Technology Standard (GO-ITS 29) and is considered the authoritative source of roads data for the Ontario Public Service.
Metadata
Projection
Grid Coordinate System: geographic
Map unit: decimal degree
Datum
Horizontal Geodetic Datum: NAD83
Vertical Datum: not applicable
Access
- Data Resource Centre Geospatial Metadata Explorer
Note: to download geospatial data from off-campus users will first need to install CISCO IPSec VPN Access software available (a free download) from the University of Guelph CCS software distribution Web site.
Citation
Ontario Road Network 2005, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, Peterborough: Ontario. 2006.
Data Access
Contact
519–824–4120 ext. 56417
Visit
The DRC is located behind the Research Help desk in the McLaughlin Library.