Resource Access Roads - Ministry of Natural Resources - Ontario.ca

Resource Access Roads Geospatial Data
Information Management Plan and Data Management Guide
IM Phase
DATA MAINTENANCE
Various activities and sources will be used to maintain the roads data within NRVIS.
Resource access roads will be maintained by the MNR, while updates for non-MNR roads
(e.g. municipal roads, provincial highways, other) will flow from the ORN.
Districts, regions and program areas will play varying roles in maintaining the MNR’s
resource access roads data.
Data exchanges with forest industry as described in the Forest Information Manual
(FIM) will also be used to maintain roads in NRVIS. There may be cases where the MNR
will have to collect attributes not provided through FIM, i.e. FIM does not require the
exchange of all the attributes found in NRVIS.
Maintenance of the MNR’s resource access roads will follow the standards defined within
this document.
IM Phase
DATA RETENTION OR DISPOSAL
The MNR’s NRVIS 3.2 roads data will not be “disposed of”; it will be retained as historic
data within NRVIS. Following completion of the migration phase, the NRVIS 3.2 roads
data will not be maintained and will not be editable within NRVIS.
Unlike the NRVIS 3.2 roads data model, which did not deal with retired roads, the new
NRVIS 3.3 roads data model includes a retired roads layer.
IM Phase
DATA EVALUATION
Acting as data custodian, the Geographic Information Branch will be responsible for
ensuring the continued suitability and usefulness of the MNR’s resource access roads
data.
Changes or additions to the content or data model of the NRVIS roads layer will be
based upon comments or suggestions from various committees, e.g. the NRVIS Advisory
Committee, the Joint MNR Forest Industry Information Committee, user input, etc.
MNR staff can provide their suggestions on the roads content or data model of future
NRVIS releases to the Geographic Information Branch using the support model
described in Appendix C.
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