Railway Coordinate system: 4269 - "NAD83" Abstract: This data set is a centre line linear feature that can be used to identify the location of the steel tracks for trains. Please note that the railway data layer has been replaced by the Ontario Railway Network (ORWN). Supplementary tables can be used and are available for download from the additional documentation section. Supplementary look-up table descriptions are available in the data description document, which is available for download from the additional documentation section.

Additional Documentation

• Metadata Information

  Language: eng; CAN

  Last Update: 2014-03-11

  Other Maintenance Requirements:

  8954afa5-1c52-4695-ac09-79faf0d82ffe

  Metadata Contact:

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

  Contact Instructions:

  gis@scholarsportal.info

  Metadata Standard:

  North American Profile of ISO19115:2003 - Geographic Information

• Citation Information

  
  
  
  

  Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources Peterborough Ontario, Canada

  Themes or Categories of the Resource: transportation

  Keywords:

  TRANSPORTATION, TRANSPORT, RAILROADS, RAIL, RAILWAY, RAILWAYS, LAND USE PLANNING, LAND USE, LAND MANAGEMENT, TRAIN

  TRANSPORT, LAND USE, LAND USE PLANNING

  Transport, Transport, Railway networks, Réseau ferroviaire, Rail transport, Transport ferroviaire, Land management, Gestion des terres, Trains, Train

  Place Keywords:

  Continent > North America > Canada > Ontario

  Purpose:

  To identify Linear Railway features which are commonly found on topographic maps. These include: Rail Line, Rail Line - Abandoned and Rail Line - Multiple Track.

  Dataset Language: eng; CAN

  Status: historicalArchive

  Update Frequency: notPlanned

  Spatial Representation Type: vector

  Extent

  West Longitude: -95.153749

  East Longitude: -74.355202

  North Latitude: 51.290777

  South Latitude: 42.029493

  
  

  Supplemental Information:

  The Railway data layer has been replaced by the Ontario Railway Network (ORWN). Measure Description: Horizontal: Precise: +/- 10 m; Vertical: Reliable: +/- 5 m.

• Spatial Representation - Vector

  Geometric Objects:

  Object Type: composite

  Object Count: 17773

• Reference System Information

  Reference System Identifier

  Value: 4269

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

• Data Quality Information

  Scope Level: dataset

• Distribution Information

  Distributor:

  Ontario Geospatial Data Exchange, Ministry of Natural Resources (OMNR) Peterborough Ontario, Canada