Yeah, I'm looking at Manitoba and realizing immediately that there's a lot of road coverage missing there. I can see the 304/314 but not the road from it to Berens River. Maybe this is just highways?
It is definitely just highways... there are dozens and dozens of communities that exist in parts of Newfoundland that are fully dark on this map. The TCH and provincial highways are the only things represented on this map for the island.
Not that strange: it was an intentional program with the provincial ministry of highways to support agriculture and other industrial development. Saskatchewan has something like 40% of Canadas farmland, so having the roads divide up the sections makes it easier to move equipment around.
Not sure what "two lane equivalent" means, though. Wikipedia claims more than 250,000 km, but without a citation. That could well be true by some other means of measuring distance.
Grid roads aren’t paved, are narrow and don’t have a shoulder either. Prairie highways that are paved aren’t kept to a very high standard they are usually not the most comfortable rides in comparison to the mountain highways along the shield.
That one road going furthest north is the Dempster Highway. This map is inaccurate because it actually reaches the Arctic Ocean coast now, at Tuktoyaktuk NWT. I've driven it a few times, it's absolutely epic. 700+ km of rough gravel road through Tombstone Territorial Park & across the tundra. Do it if you ever have the chance, and bring a spare or two!
This map makes the town I used to live in in Northern Manitoba seem even more isolated. And yes, the road does go there and you can see it on that one line.
Sure are a lot of blank in northern parts of the provinces where I know there are roads
Agreed.
If this mapped logging roads, a lot more of the lower third would be lit up.
I'm thinking this is more of a traffic analysis than a road analysis.
Looking at NL, it appears that there are only highways represented
Tracked down the original source instead of this tiny and super compressed copy.
And here's a direct link to the full res map itself [4000 x 3277]. You can actually see much of that northern road infrastructure that's just blurred to black in this one.
You a real one, wish your comment could be stickied
I'm amazed how few roads there are in BC and western Ontario
Water and mountains. It's easier to build roads on flat land :)
NWO is more water than land and BC is just not accessible
In bc we mainly build roads between mountains. This leads to not having many roads because you only need one per valley at most
Highway 16 runs east/west and highway 97 runs north/south across central BC and both were built decades ago and neither has adequate passing lanes.
Rocks, really really really big ones.
Would be interesting to see how many kilometres of these are gravel versus paved.
I live in one of the black zones and can easily pinpoint the answer to your question. These data points must represent paved roads only.
Context: I can see the exact highway junction clearly near where I live, and everything within 100 km of this area are unpaved.
Yeah, I'm looking at Manitoba and realizing immediately that there's a lot of road coverage missing there. I can see the 304/314 but not the road from it to Berens River. Maybe this is just highways?
It is definitely just highways... there are dozens and dozens of communities that exist in parts of Newfoundland that are fully dark on this map. The TCH and provincial highways are the only things represented on this map for the island.
Try the full res original version, definitely makes it much easier to see the details vs this wildly compressed one.
Would be interesting to add all the forestry roads in BC
Are they public roads or only open to logging vehicles?
I’m thinking that’s why they aren’t mapped
Most resource roads are open to the public
They're usually open to the public. if they're being used for logging, signs go up and sometimes there are temporary closures.
They are on GPS
There's more m of road in Saskatchewan than there are people
Strangely Saskatchewan has more kilometres of road than any other province in Canada!
Not that strange: it was an intentional program with the provincial ministry of highways to support agriculture and other industrial development. Saskatchewan has something like 40% of Canadas farmland, so having the roads divide up the sections makes it easier to move equipment around.
Hell, there's more than 200,000 "two lane equivalent" kilometers of roads. So more meters than there are people in the entire country several times over.
Not sure what "two lane equivalent" means, though. Wikipedia claims more than 250,000 km, but without a citation. That could well be true by some other means of measuring distance.
No traffic then? lol
The praries really stands out, such an abnormally high coverage
It's much cheaper to build a road on a prairie than over a mountain range, around a rocky coast, or through a dense forest.
So we just built roads everywhere.
Grid roads aren’t paved, are narrow and don’t have a shoulder either. Prairie highways that are paved aren’t kept to a very high standard they are usually not the most comfortable rides in comparison to the mountain highways along the shield.
That’s also the Palliser Triangle which leads me to believe this is heavily farm related
Need to be able to access all that farm land somehow
I thought there would be more around Vancouver
I can see my house from here
I laughed way too hard at this🤣🤣🤣
That one road going furthest north is the Dempster Highway. This map is inaccurate because it actually reaches the Arctic Ocean coast now, at Tuktoyaktuk NWT. I've driven it a few times, it's absolutely epic. 700+ km of rough gravel road through Tombstone Territorial Park & across the tundra. Do it if you ever have the chance, and bring a spare or two!
Dempster Highway
Saskatchewan has a different hue to the light relative to its neighbors. Are they using a different brand of bulbs or something ?
it's pronounced enough that the provincial borders are visible
I think it's a heatmap - so the more yellow the road the busier? I could be wrong.
but why would traffic drive right up to the border.. then not cross it ? the colour between Manitoba and Sask is very clear
Looks like it's not (directly) based on traffic, but instead classifying road size - there is an explanation in the original Imgur post which is linked from the mapporn post - https://imgur.com/a/canada-mapped-by-trails-roads-streets-highways-DgcoN
Maybe police chasing people and then skidding to a stop when the bad guy leaves their jurisdiction.
Not really accurate. There’s a shitloads of logging roads excluded.
This map makes the town I used to live in in Northern Manitoba seem even more isolated. And yes, the road does go there and you can see it on that one line.
Ontario is so fucking wide
Canada Telecom be like "we need to cover so much area, that's why rates are so high".
One of my first thoughts moving from Saskatchewan to BC, “why aren’t there more roads?”