Rail and Transit Lines (RLL) Coordinate system: 4326 - "WGS 84" Abstract: The CanMap Rail and Transit Lines layer represents: primary railways, transit, sidetrack and abandoned railways across Canada. The attribution associated to these graphic segments include: Rail Operator, Cartographic Type Assigment and more. Note: In 2012, there was a datum change from NAD83 to WGS84.

Additional Documentation

• Metadata Information

  Language: eng; CAN

  Last Update: 2015-06-30

  Other Maintenance Requirements:

  This metadata was automatically generated from the FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadatastandard version FGDC-STD-001-1998.

  Metadata Contact:

  Scholars Portal, Ontario Council of University Libraries Toronto Ontario, Canada

  http://scholarsportal.info

  Contact Instructions:

  gis@scholarsportal.info

  Metadata Standard:

  ISO 19115-2

• Citation Information

  
  
  

  Series

  Name: CanMap RouteLogistics

  
  

  DMTI Spatial Inc. Markham Ontario, Canada

  Themes or Categories of the Resource: transportation

  Keywords:

  Rail, Main Railway, Transit Lines, Sidetrack, Abandoned, Rail lines

  Rail, TRANSPORT

  Rail transport, Railway networks, Transport, Réseau ferroviaire, Transport ferroviaire

  Place Keywords:

  Continent > North America > Canada

  Purpose:

  The use of this nationwide data product can include, but is not limited to: location based services, navigation, emergency planning, logistics, environmental analysis and other cartography applications.

  Dataset Language: eng; CAN

  Status: completed

  Update Frequency: biannually

  Spatial Representation Type: vector

  Processing Environment:

  Native Dataset Environment: Microsoft Windows 2000 Version 5.2 (Build 3790) Service Pack 2; ESRI ArcCatalog 8.3.0.800

  Extent

  West Longitude: -135.138911

  East Longitude: -53.068853

  North Latitude: 60.872335

  South Latitude: 42.028410

  
  

  Supplemental Information:

  The graphics for CanMap Rail were extracted in part from the 1:50,000 National Topographic Database and other supporting sources. The product has been continually enhanced using aerial and satellite imagery.

  DMTI Spatial Inc Markham Ontario, Canada

• Spatial Representation - Vector

  Geometric Objects:

  Object Type: composite

  Object Count: 67536

• Reference System Information

  Reference System Identifier

  Value: 4326

  Code Space: http://www.epsg-registry.org/

• Data Quality Information

  Scope Level: dataset

  
  

  Process step:

  Dataset copied.

• Distribution Information

  Distributor:

  DMTI Spatial Inc. Markham Ontario, Canada