Roadway Blocks for Washington DC, Representing Street Segments

Roadway blocks represent street segments for a city, a common organizational unit for work like fixing potholes. The dataset is maintained by the District of Columbia Department of Transportation (DDOT) and was last updated on March 25, 2026. It includes road types such as streets, with segments remaining unbroken despite intersections.

Use Cases

• Map street segments for asset management based on the roadway block representation.
• Organize maintenance work like pothole repair based on the block-level organization concept.
• Analyze urban road networks based on unbroken segment representation.
• Integrate with linear referencing systems (LRS) based on the dataset's platform tags.

Strengths

• Data is provided in multiple geospatial formats including KML, GeoJSON, and CSV.
• License is CC-BY-4.0, allowing for flexible reuse.
• Last updated date is explicitly stated as 2026-03-25.

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

District of Columbia Department of Transportation (DDOT)

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-25 08:35:46.917965; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Washington DC