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

Data Category: map file, point file.

Coverage: Mexico

Units of Sale: Mexico Rail-complete.

Compatibility: Compatible with a variety of mapping software products.

Uses/Applications: The Mexican 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 Mexican Railroad Map Database has been developed through extensive research and reflects the rail system currently in operation. The database consists of a graphical layer of data that represents the Mexican owned rail lines 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 Mexican 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)
State	State in which station point is located	Character (2)

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

Vintage of Data: January 2004

File Sizes: Mexico Rail: 325KB and Mexican Stations: 32KB *
*All sizes are approximations.

Coordinate System: Latitude and Longitude

Accuracy/Scale: 1:1,000,000

Source/Copyright: DeskMap Systems, Inc.

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