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Nova Scotia road network update on GeoBase
March 30, 2006
On behalf of the Canadian Council of Geomatics (CCOG), Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) is pleased to announce the release of the third edition of the Nova Scotia portion of National Road Network (NRN) produced by Service Nova Scotia And Municipal Relations (SNSMR) through the Nova Scotia Geomatics Centre (NSGC) and carried out in the framework of a maintenance agreement between NRCan and SNSMR.
This GeoBase NRN dataset was produced in collaboration with SNSMR and its provincial partners:
- Emergency Measures Organization
- Transportation and Public Works
- 55 Municipal Units
- First Nations
NRCan is proud to be associated with SNSMR through the NSGC and their efforts in maintaining the GeoBase NRN. NSGC is to be congratulated for their efforts and success in working within a community of stakeholders that are actively participating in the maintenance of their provincial road network and producing an NRN dataset in compliance with the National Standards.
This dataset includes 204 geometry changes and 77 bridge segmentation changes from the previous dataset. The result is a deletion of 162 NID and the addition of 281 new NID.
Data Change Management (DCM) files between 2005-12 and 2006-03 releases are also provided for this dataset.
All supporting documentation for NRN Data Change Management can be found within the following NRN GeoBase documents:
- National Vector Data Identification Rules [pdf 61 KB]
- National Vector Data Change Management [pdf 106 KB]
NOTE: It is important to mention that the Data Change Management files are being distributed on the basis of a Beta test. By this time next year NRCan and its partners will have performed a review and measure the volume of downloads and compiled GeoBase User comments in an attempt to re-evaluate the pertinence of producing and providing Data Change Management files for all GeoBase NRN datasets.