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Transportation Data
State of MA
USA
International
- ESRI Data and Maps
- Global GIS
- Digital Chart of the World (on Global Planner dataset)
- Nortad
- Binational Border Transportation Planning & Program Process
- Open street Map
The datasets listed each have different strengths for different types of projects. The following listing is in a general order of frequency of use.
ESRI Data and Maps
Location: Rotch Library - GIS Collection |CDROM G70.212.E775 (2003- 2006 available)
- Highways
- Major Roads
- Street Map USA includes detailed streets and is good for geocoding (mapping a table of addresses as points on a map). If you are mapping with ESRI software this is the easiest street source to use because there is a built in address locator file.
- Highways
- Railways
- Major Roads
- Roads
- Railroads and railroad stations
- ferries
MASSGIS - state of MA only
Executive Office of Transportation-OTP Roads
Highway Exits and Routemarker Locations
Census 2000 TIGER Roads
1:5,000 Road and Rail Centerlines
Trains
MBTA Rapid Transit
Airports
Ferry Routes
Seaports
Boston Harbor Water Taxi Stops
Tollbooths
Park and Ride Lots
TIGER Files - Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing system
The TIGER/Line files are a digital database of geographic features, such as roads, railroads, rivers, census statistical boundaries, etc. covering the entire United States. The data base contains information about these features such as their location in latitude and longitude, the name, the type of feature, address ranges for most streets, the geographic relationship to other features, and other related information. They are the public product created from the Census Bureau's TIGER database. TIGER files can be used as a detailed detailed street source and for geocoding. They are available from:
- Census Bureau website has multiple releases and formats: http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/
- ESRI website: http://arcdata.esri.com/data/tiger2000/tiger_download.cfm
- TIGER files from various years are also available on cd in the Rotch Library census collection
National Transportation Atlas Database (NTAD)
Location: Rotch Library - GIS Collection | G1201.P1.N83 | CDROM
1997,1999-2007
Location Rotch Library - GIS Collection | DVDROM G3201.A25 2003.G56
Contains roads and railroads at a 1: 1,000,000 scale, extracted from VMAP.
Digital Chart of the World on the Global Planner dataset
Location: Rotch Library - Circulation Desk | DVDROM G3200 2004.T63
Contains roads and railroads at a 1: 1,000,000 scale. The Global GIS roads and railroads is a later update with more records.
North American Transportation Atlas (NORTAD)
Rotch Library - GIS Collection | CDROM HE202.N598 1998
Binational Border Transportation Planning & Program Process: includes downloadable base layers for mexico's transportation system in ESRI data format.
OpenStreetMap - Free, open source, WMS (web mapping service) website where people can post the street map information they have gathered and update other people's postings.
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