Road Network of Québec with Street Centerline and Municipal Boundary Attributes

Government and Municipalities of Québec provide a filamentary representation of road segments, commonly called sections, digitized along street centers. The dataset includes attributes such as odonyms (street names), address ranges, and references to former municipal boundaries. It was last updated on April 22, 2026, and is available under a CC-BY-4.0 license in multiple geospatial formats.

Use Cases

• Geocoding and address matching based on the address ranges attribute.
• Municipal boundary analysis and historical jurisdiction studies based on references to former municipalities.
• Network analysis for routing or connectivity based on the filamentary road segment representation.
• Spatial data integration for urban planning based on the standardized road centerline geometry.

Strengths

• Data is provided in multiple interoperable geospatial formats: SHP, GEOJSON, KML, and CSV.
• Published under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license, facilitating reuse.
• Includes references to historical municipal boundaries, which may support temporal analysis.

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

Government and Municipalities of Québec | Gouvernement et municipalités du Québec

Collection Method

Digitization generally done in street centers to create sections with homogeneous characteristics.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-22 17:37:05.752849; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Québec, Canada