Prince Edward Island
This page contains information relating to mapping activity that is specific to the Prince Edward Island Canada.
Highway Tagging In Prince Edward Island
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highway | primary | ![]() |
Trans-Canada highway (Route 1), and Routes 1A and 2 only. | ![]() | ||
highway | secondary | ![]() |
One and two-digit routes - i.e. Route 6, Route 12 | ![]() | ||
highway | tertiary | ![]() |
Three-digital rural routes (i.e. Route 225) and, in urban areas, significant urban roads that are not numbered (i.e. North River Road in Charlottetown) | ![]() | ||
highway | residential | ![]() |
Residential streets in urban areas, towns and villages. | ![]() | ||
highway | service | ![]() |
generally for access to a building, motorway service station, beach, campsite, industrial estate, business park, etc. This is also commonly used for access to parking and trash collection. Sometimes called an alley, particularly in the US. | ![]() | ||
highway | track | ![]() |
roads for agricultural use, gravel roads in the forest etc.; usually unpaved/unsealed but may occasionally apply to paved tracks as well, see discussion of "tracktype" below.
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highway | pedestrian | ![]() ![]() |
For Roads , i.e. mainly/exclusively for pedestrians /Shopping Areas. Also for tagging squares and plazas, therefore add area=yes. | ![]() | ||
highway | services | ![]() |
A service station to get food and eat something, often found at motorways.
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Paths | ||||||
highway | path | ![]() |
A non-specific or shared-use path. | |||
highway | cycleway | ![]() |
Shortcut for highway=path cycleway=designated -> For designated cycleways, i.e. mainly/exclusively for bicycles. If pedestrians are allowed as well, you can indicate this by adding a foot=yes or foot=designated tag as appropriate. | ![]() |
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highway | footway | ![]() |
Shortcut for highway=path foot=designated -> For designated footpaths, i.e. mainly/exclusively for pedestrians. This includes walking tracks and gravel paths. If bicycles are allowed as well, you can indicate this by adding a bicycle=yes tag.
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highway | bridleway | ![]() |
Shortcut for highway=path horse=designated -> For horses, (in the UK, these are rights of way for pedestrians, horse-riders and cyclists).
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highway | steps | ![]() |
For flights of steps on footways.
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Intersection features | ||||||
highway | mini_roundabout | ![]() |
Very small roundabouts only, larger ones should be junction=roundabout. In the UK, mini-roundabouts have a circular sign with a blue background, instead of the usual triangular sign
Rendered as anti-clockwise by default. To render clockwise add the tag direction=clockwise.
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highway | stop | ![]() |
A stop sign | ![]() | ||
highway | traffic_signals | ![]() |
Lights that control the traffic | ![]() |
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highway | crossing | ![]() |
Pedestrians can cross a street here - e.g. zebra crossing.
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Barriers | ||||||
highway | gate | ![]() |
* Remember to close the gate. A courtesy, and a recomendation by the land owner and the local trails association.
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barrier | stile | ![]() |
Allow pedestrians to cross a wall or fence.
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highway | cattle_grid | ![]() |
Bars in the road surface that allow wheeled vehicles but not animals to cross. Sometimes known as a Texas Gate, even outside of Texas.
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highway | toll_booth | ![]() |
A road usage toll or fee is collected here | ![]() | ||
Other features | ||||||
incline | User defined | ![]() ![]() |
slope or hill, may encounter slow moving trucks. | |||
highway | ford | ![]() |
The road crosses a stream or river, vehicles must enter the water node.
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highway | bus_stop | ![]() |
A small bus stop. Larger stations should be tagged as amenity=bus_station instead. | ![]() |
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highway | turning_circle | ![]() |
A Turning circle is a rounded, widened area usually, but not necessarily, at the end of a road to facilitate easier turning of a vehicle.
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highway | construction | ![]() |
For roads under construction, use with construction=*
FIXME: --acrosscanadatrails 02:23, 17 July 2008 (UTC) perhaps adding a tag with the date of estimated completion, so then after that date that section can be physically checked. Note: When mapping these, please also map the detour route. :) |
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construction | User Defined | ![]() |
Any linear highway object may be added, e.g. construction=motorway. Use with highway=construction | |||
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Junctions | ||||||
junction | roundabout | ![]() |
This automatically implies oneway=yes, the oneway direction is defined by the sequential ordering of nodes within the Way. This applies on a way, tagged with highway=* already. | ![]() |
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junction | User Defined | ![]() |
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highway | motorway_junction | ![]() |
Indicates a junction (UK) or exit (US) ref should be set to the exit number or junction identifier. (Some roads - e.g. the A14 - also carry junction numbers, so the tag may be encountered elsewhere despite its name) | |||
Traffic calming | ||||||
traffic_calming | yes | ![]() ![]() |
To tag road features that are designed to slow down traffic in residential areas. | |||
traffic_calming | User Defined | ![]() ![]() |
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This table is a wiki template with a default description in English. Editable here.
Hiking Trails
A spring 2023 project used GPS surveys of Prince Edward Island hiking trails to add or update trails in OpenStreetMap; source files and documentation for this project are available. As part of this project:
- Trail ways were updated with surface tags and segment names, and routes updated:
- name
- For trails with named segments, the name was set to the segment, for example "Blue Loop."
- For trails without named segments, the name was set to the name of the trail itself, for example "Upton Farmlands Trail."
- surface
- "T_Type=Natural*" became surface=dirt.
- "T_Type=Boardwalk" became surface=wood.
- "T_Type=Hard*" became surface=asphalt.
- "T_Type=Improved*" became surface=gravel.
- highway
- foot
- yes for all trails
- bicycle
- yes for multi-use trails and trails specifically designated for cycling.
- name
- Connections to roads and parking lots were added, where applicable.
- For new trails, new relations were created; for existing trails, existing relations were preserved, with tags, and routes replaced. For each relation, the following tags were set:
- name
- The name of the trail, for example "Upton Farmlands Trail".
- network=lwn
- operator
- Island Trails for Island Trails-managed trails or the third-party manager when identified.
- route=hiking
- type=route
- source=survey
- name
- Super-relations were created for Island Trails-managed trails and for Demonstration Woodlot trails.
In total 11 Island Trails-managed trails and 51 other trails were updated.
Cities/Towns (by population)
Downloads
The Garmin MapSource (Windows) Installer file is available here http://www.mediafire.com/file/hlwdzjw5fmo/OSM Routable PEI 30 April 2010.exe created from the OSM download of the outline of the province from http://downloads.cloudmade.com/north_america/canada/pr_edwrd_island#downloads_breadcrumbs
CanVec Garmin IMG files
user:Acrosscanadatrails is creating Routable Garmin Maps out of the CanVec OSM files. The area it organized by NTS Tile System and is available to download in the http://www.mediafire.com/acrosscanadatrails NTS Grid (all data) folder. These zip files contain the original OSM files, and the Quad-tree tiling (smaller tiles) as well as the combined IMG file. The file needs to be changed to just 8 numbers or GMAPSUPP.img for it to work in the device.
- 001L06 (north of Charlottetown) can downloaded here