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Maintenance of the GeoBase National Road Network (NRNv1)
This project will help ensure that GeoBase National Road Network (NRNv1) data is properly updated and maintained, on schedule, by those closest to the data's source. This data describes a number of roadway features including surface type, number of lanes, highway numbers, and the like.
The project will help data custodians manage and update the NRNv1. A current, accurate NRNv1 serves many stakeholders, such as those involved with national defence, statistics, elections, housing, the postal service, agriculture, public works, natural resources, policing, and public safety.
By capitalizing on the Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure (CGDI), this project focuses the road network community on building one data set, collected once closest to source. This efficient approach reduces duplication and costs and helps the road-network community work together more easily.
This project will provide Canadian governments, institutions, companies, and citizens with an accurate, standardized, and up-to-date road network. This network is vital for informed decision making in many priority areas that affect Canadians today.
The NRNv1 is available for free through the GeoBase Portal, and it is also posted on the GeoConnections Discovery Portal.
Primary Partner:
Natural Resources Canada-Earth Sciences Sector-GeoBase
Sherbrooke,
Quebec;
Partners: Provincial and territorial agencies contributing to the NRN
Funding From GeoConnections: $186,934.00 ( 20.0 %)
Estimated Inception Date: April, 2006
Estimated Completion Date: March, 2010
Deliverables from this project benefitted the following provinces: All provinces