Border Crossing

Description

Border Crossing
The Canada-United States border is the longest international border in the World at 5,525 miles. There are more than 100 land (road, rail) border crossings between Canada and the USA, although not all of these are open 24 hours a day 7 days a week year round.

Although most people travel between Canada and the United States by vehicle or airplane, there are also a number of ferry crossings between the countries.

Originator

Public Domain - Wikipedia

Use Cases

Source(s)

Description	Source	Format	Date	Update Frequency	Metadata	Cost	Link	Remarks

Description	Source	Format	Date	Update Frequency	Metadata	Cost	Link	Remarks
Border Crossing	Wikipedia	HTML	2018	As needed	N/A	Free	Land Crossing Rail Crossing Ferry Crossing EGIS Data Folder: BorderCrossing_Ferry.gdb.zip BorderCrossing_Railway.gdb.zip BorderCrossing_Highway.gdb.zip	Copy and paste the web page listing as CSV file.

Remarks

Copy/paste Border Crossing listing for each province from website and save as CSV file.

Process for EGIS integration

CSV File Transformation:

In FME, transform Coordinates to point.
Output to KML, SHP or GDB as required.
Import into EGIS

TC Smart Maps:

Not all GIS applications can consume KML file directly due to its unique data structures such as networklinks, folders, models etc.
Please contact Lawrence Chong, Digital Services Directorate for TC Smart Maps KML dataset and format translation.
TC Smart Maps KML link: \\tc.gc.ca\tcgis\GISData\Google Mashup\SafetyAndSecurity\BorderCrossing\BorderCrossing.kml

Customization:

Schema transformation: As required
Denormalization: No Required
Value coding: Not required
Attribute renaming: As required to improve readability
Attribute removal: Not required.
Geoenrichment: Feature symbolization by Border Crossing Type is recommended to improve visualization.
Format translation: As required.
Language translation: French version not available.