Railway Safety Buffer Zones for Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec

A 300-meter buffer zone derived from railway lines within the city of Saint-Hyacinthe. This geospatial dataset is used for public safety analyses and is provided by the Government and Municipalities of Québec under a CC-BY-4.0 license. The record was last updated on 2026-04-22.

Use Cases

• Conducting public safety risk assessments based on the defined 300-meter buffer zone.
• Planning urban development and zoning restrictions based on proximity to railways.
• Visualizing and analyzing spatial relationships between railways and other city features.

Strengths

• Defined by a specific 300-meter buffer rule, ensuring consistent spatial analysis.
• Published under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for reuse.
• Last updated on 2026-04-22, indicating recent maintenance.

Limitations

• Row count and dataset scale are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Government and Municipalities of Québec

Collection Method

Spatial analysis creating a 300-meter buffer from a base railway layer.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-22 19:11:06.203671

Geography

City of Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada