Iowa Rest and Parking Facilities with Contact Information

Iowa's rest areas, parking facilities, and weigh areas are documented in this point feature dataset. The Iowa Department of Transportation provides location, description, and contact information for these sites. The data was published in 2015.

Use Cases

• Map facility locations using geospatial point coordinates for route planning applications.
• Analyze the distribution of rest areas versus weigh areas across the state using description fields.
• Filter facilities by contact information for maintenance or public inquiry workflows.
• Join this dataset with highway network data using location attributes to assess service coverage.

Strengths

• Data includes multiple facility types: rest areas, parking facilities, and weigh areas.
• Provides multiple data formats: CSV, XML, RDF, and JSON for flexibility.

Limitations

• Data is from 2015 and may not reflect new, closed, or modified facilities.
• Specific row counts and geographic precision details are unknown.

Provenance

Source

State of Iowa, Iowa Department of Transportation.

Collection Method

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Time Range

2015

Freshness

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Geography

Iowa, United States.