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Description: The Canadian Railroad Map Database is a complete digital database of the railroad system in Canada. It includes rail ownership and station points.

Data Category: map file, point file.

Coverage: Canada.

Units of Sale: Canada Rail-complete.

Compatibility: Compatible with a variety mapping software products.

Uses/Applications: The Canadian Railroad Map Database was developed for viewing and mapping rail lines with associated information about the rail line that aids in the many types of transportation applications involving rail, such as: Route Studies, Market Analysis, Fleet Management, Planning, Consultation, and Emergency Response.

Features/Benefits: The Canadian Railroad Map Database has been developed through extensive industry research and reflects the rail systems currently in operation. The database consists of a graphical layer of data that represents the Canadian railroad companies and a layer containing the station points. Each of the rail lines are linked to a database that contains information that identifies the railroad company ownership while the point file is linked to information identifying the station name.

*Note : The Canadian Railroad Map Database has been edge-matched to the US Railroad Database to ensure a continuous rail database for North America.

Table Information: Map File

Field Names Description

Type(length)

OP1 Primary Rail Operator. Usually the owner

Character (4)

OP2 Secondary Rail Operator

Character (4)

OP3 Tertiary Rail Operator

Character (4)

TR1 (Not Hierarchical) Track Rights over a specific piece of rail

Character (4)

TR2 (Not Hierarchical) Track Rights over a specific piece of rail

Character (4)

TR3 (Not Hierarchical) Track Rights over a specific piece of rail

Character (4)

Passenger Passenger Service operating over rail line.

Character (4)

Table Information: Point Files

Field Names Description

Type(length)

Name Station point name

Character (32)

Prov Province in which station point is located

Character (2)

Display Characteristics: The Canadian Rail lines are solid black lines.

Vintage of Data: January 2004updated!

File Sizes: Canada Rail: 850KB and Canada Stations: 90KB **All sizes are approximations

Accuracy/Scale: 1:1,000,000

Source/Copyright: DeskMap Systems, Inc.

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