North American Roads

Description

The North American Roads dataset was compiled on October 27, 2020 from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) and is part of the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT)/Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) National Transportation Atlas Database (NTAD). This dataset contains geospatial information regarding major roadways in North America. The data set covers the 48 contiguous United States plus the District of Columbia, Alaska, Hawaii, Canada and Mexico. The nominal scale of the data set is 1:100,000. The data within the North American Roads layer is a compilation of data from Natural Resources Canada, USDOT’s Federal Highway Administration, and the Mexican Transportation Institute. North American Roads is a digital single-line representation of major roads and highways for Canada, the United States, and Mexico with consistent definitions by road class, jurisdiction, lane counts, speed limits and surface type.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
0 An ESRI Geodatabase, ESRI shapefile, or spreadsheet. https://doi.org/10.21949/1522236
0 OGC WMS Map Service for visualizing geospatial information. https://doi.org/10.21949/1522237
0 OGC WFS Map Service for visualizing geospatial information https://doi.org/10.21949/1522238
0 Vector Tile Service for visualizing geospatial information. https://doi.org/10.21949/1527986

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  • ntad
  • atlas
  • canada
  • american
  • transportation
  • united states
  • roads
  • mexico
  • north america
  • database
  • north
  • states
  • usa
  • united
  • national transportation atlas database
  • north american
  • national

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