Grade Crossing in Reserve

Owned by Diego Cesa de Meira (Unlicensed)
Sept 11, 2019
2 min read

Description

Grade Crossing in Reserve are railway crossing within the boundary of an Indian Reserve. According to Transport Canada Grade Crossing Regulation, Rail Companies, Road Authorities and Band Councils are all responsible for managing rail crossing safety within the reserve.

Originator

  1. Canada Open Data

Use Cases

  1. As a Rail Inspector, I want to be able to identify the First Nation community to contact should there be any issues with crossing safety so that accidents can be prevented.

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Description

Source

Format

Date

Update Frequency

Metadata

Cost

Link

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Grade Crossing in Reserve

Canada Open Data

SHP

2018

Complete

N/A

Free

EGIS Data Foldet: GradeCrossingOnReserve_pt.gdb.zip

Spatial analysis of NRWN-Grade Crossing and Indian Reserve

Remarks

Crossing Extraction using Spatial Analysis:

  1. In FME, use Clipper transformer with Grade Crossing (point) from the National Railway Network (NRWN) dataset as clipee and Indian Reserve boundary (polygon) as clipper.

  2. Save ouput as SHP, GDB or KML file.

Process for EGIS integration

SHP File:

  1. SHP file can be directly integrated into EGIS.

TC Smart Maps:

  1. Not all GIS applications can consume KML file directly due to its unique data structures such as networklinks, folders, models etc.

  2. Please contact Lawrence Chong, Digital Services Directorate for TC Smart Maps KML dataset and format translation.

  3. TC Smart Maps KML link: \\tc.gc.ca\tcgis\GISData\Google Mashup\Surface Engineering-Rail Data\RailCrossingOnReserve\RailCrossingOnReserve.kmz

Customization:

  1. Schema transformation: As required

  2. Denormalization: No Required

  3. Value coding: Not required

  4. Attribute renaming: As required to improve readability

  5. Attribute removal: It is highly recommended as some fields are unnecessary, this will also reduce file size and improve performance

  6. Geoenrichment: Feature symbolization is recommended to improve visualization

  7. Format translation: As needed

  8. Language translation: French version available for NRWN.