Prince Edward Island

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This page contains information relating to mapping activity that is specific to the Prince Edward Island Canada.

Highway Tagging In Prince Edward Island

• 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=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)

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
    • path
  • foot
    • yes for all trails
  • bicycle
    • yes for multi-use trails and trails specifically designated for cycling.
• 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
• 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)

• Charlottetown

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