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canmbp: Manitoba Provincial Roads
oscar:
Anything on the supposed PR 636 in Churchill (isolated from the rest of the highway network, so it wouldn't appear in any files for other routes)? It wouldn't surprise me if that non-standard route signage on the airport road was contrived by locals, to impress the royals when they visited Churchill, rather than proof that it's part of the provincial road network.
yakra:
All I know right now is, there's no "636" value in the RTNUMBER1 field anywhere in the (Edit: GeoBase NRN) shapefiles.
I'll look into it some more.
yakra:
I am satisfied that MB636 exists.
https://www.ec.gc.ca/ee-ue/app/cepae2.cfm?lang=En&screen=Search/Search&ReportID=4
(Enter "PR 636" (with quotes) in the Filter items box.)
https://twitter.com/TownofChurchill/status/868920627343880192
("Launch Road" specifically may be the locals being imprecise? If OSM has the Kelsey Blvd / Launch Rd changeover right, Launch Rd looks a bit suspect, per the highway map...)
And finally, the Official Highway Map, maps # 10 and 11 clearly show a 2 Lane, Paved Provincial Road.
Resolution is low, though; pinning down the endpoints may be difficult. (Or not -- see below...)
Looks like a relatively new designation (you were there in August 2013?), a bit new to be showing up in the GeoBase NRN shapefiles yet. They seem a bit slow to get updated; for example the latest revision has yet to catch up with a section of MB236 being decommissioned.
OK, I found some LRS -Road Network shapefiles from Manitoba Land Initiative. And there's a road shown in Churchill... DESCRIPTIO = "Bernier St to Old Airport Terminal Rd (Churchill)", ROAD_IDENT = "Access Road" rather than "Provincial Road", but nonetheless I bet this is it. East end roughly here.
Trail of breadcrumbs:
http://mli2.gov.mb.ca/ / http://mli2.gov.mb.ca/app/register/app/index.php / http://mli2.gov.mb.ca/mli_data/index.html / http://mli2.gov.mb.ca/roads_hwys/index.html
oscar:
I went, in August 2013, on a polar bear viewing tour east of Churchill (alas, I didn't see any bears, it wasn't high season for them). I think we went east of the airport, so I probably clinched PR 636 on the tour's shuttle bus to the "tundra buggies" taking us into bear habitat.
That is, unless PR 636 also extends west of downtown Churchill (I saw no route signs in that direction). I walked a short distance west of town toward the port and its grain elevators, but couldn't cover much ground before I had to catch the train back to Thompson.
BTW, the rail line to Churchill is now closed indefinitely due to extensive trackbed damage. Until that's fixed, visitors to Churchill will need to get there by air.
yakra:
Out of curiosity, do you remember where you say the 636 shield? Churchill has GMSV, dated Oct 2013, after your visit, but I haven't found it yet.
From what I can make out, the east end is pretty close to the edge of what I'd call downtown.
BerSt http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=58.770217&lon=-94.175803
JamAve http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=58.766328&lon=-94.165268
+x1381-51 http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=58.744600&lon=-94.104237
AirRd http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=58.753102&lon=-94.083608
OldATRd http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=58.759511&lon=-94.063701
You've probably got all of that?
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