National Railway Network - NRWN - GeoBase Series

The National Rail Network (NRWN) is a geometric and attributive description of the Canadian rail network.

The NRWN product consists of the features classes: Track Segment, Railway Crossing, Railway Station, Marker Post, Junction and Railway Structure.

Descriptive attributes include amongst others: Track Classification, Track Name, Track Operator, Track User, Track Owner, Subdivision Name, Junction Type, Crossing Type, Level of Crossing, Warning System, Transport Canada Identifier, Station Name, Station Type, Station User, Structure Type.

Date ( RI_366 ): 2012

Date ( RI_367 ): 2016-10

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Government of Canada; Natural Resources Canada;Strategic Policy and Innovation Sector

voice; 1 (800) 6612638

Presentation form: mapDigital;carteNumérique RI_391

Status: onGoing; enContinue RI_596

Maintenance and update frequency: irregular; irrégulier RI_541

Update scope: feature; entité RI_626

Keywords ( RI_525 )

Canada

Keywords ( RI_524 )

Earth Sciences

Keywords ( RI_529 )

GeoBase
NRWN

Keywords ( RI_528 )

Transport
Railway networks
Rail transport
Railway installations
Rail transport industry

Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus Thésaurus des sujets de base du gouvernement du Canada ( Theme )

Railway networks

Use limitation: Open Government Licence - Canada (http://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada)

Access constraints: license; licence RI_606

Use constraints: license; licence RI_606

Spatial representation type: vector; vecteur RI_635

Metadata language: eng; CAN

Metadata language: fra; CAN

Character set: utf8; utf8 RI_458

Topic category

Transportation

Begin date: 2012-11

Reference system identifier: http://www.epsg-registry.org / EPSG:4617 / 9.0

Distribution format

WMS ( 1.3.0 )

Specification

Open Geospatial Consortium Inc., OpenGIS Web Map Service (WMS) Implementation Specification, Version 1.3.0, 2006-03-15, Reference number of this OGC® project document: 06-042 (http://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=14416)
SHP ( unknown )
GML ( 3.1.1 )
KML ( 2.2 )