Weigh Stations (WGH) Coordinate system: 4326 - "WGS 84" Abstract: The weigh stations layer (at a minimum) contains the Name and Address (if applicable) of each weight station as well as the site type (permanent or portable scale). Note: In 2012, there was a datum change from NAD83 to WGS84.

Additional Documentation

• Metadata Information

  Language: eng; CAN

  Last Update: 2015-06-17

  Other Maintenance Requirements:

  This metadata was automatically generated from the FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata standard version FGDC-STD-001-1998.

  Metadata Contact:

  Scholars Portal, Ontario Council of University Libraries Toronto Ontario, Canada

  http://scholarsportal.info

  Contact Instructions:

  gis@scholarsportal.info

  Metadata Standard:

  ISO 19115-2

• Citation Information

  
  
  

  Series

  Name: CanMap RouteLogistics

  
  

  DMTI Spatial Inc. Markham Ontario, Canada

  Themes or Categories of the Resource: transportation

  Keywords:

  Weigh stations, truck, weight

  TRANSPORT

  Trucking industry, Transport industry, Measurement, Transport, Transport policy, Industrie du camionnage, Transport, Industrie du transport

  Place Keywords:

  Continent > North America > Canada

  Purpose:

  To create a dataset of Canadian transportation weigh stations. Can be used for cartographic display or intermodal transportation.

  Dataset Language: eng; CAN

  Status: completed

  Update Frequency: asNeeded

  Spatial Representation Type: vector

  Processing Environment:

  Native Dataset Environment: Microsoft Windows 2000 Version 5.2 (Build 3790) Service Pack 2; ESRI ArcCatalog 8.3.0.800

  Extent

  West Longitude: -137.510182

  East Longitude: -52.974710

  North Latitude: 68.354382

  South Latitude: 42.239590

  
  

  Supplemental Information:

  Weigh station points were placed to any street segment if possible from a provincial listings of weigh stations. Used the CanMap POI to help place points in some rural areas.

  DMTI Spatial Inc Markham Ontario, Canada

• Spatial Representation - Vector

  Geometric Objects:

  Object Type: point

  Object Count: 230

• Reference System Information

  Reference System Identifier

  Value: 4326

  Code Space: http://www.epsg-registry.org/

• Data Quality Information

  Scope Level: dataset

• Distribution Information

  Distributor:

  DMTI Spatial Inc. Markham Ontario, Canada