City of Winnipeg LRS
This dataset is the base geometry used by The City of Winnipeg's Linear Reference System (LRS). It is to be used in conjunction with LRS events also published on the Open Data portal.
Currently published LRS events are:
Block Segments: https://data.winnipeg.ca/d/sr8r-ehr3
Speed Limits: https://data.winnipeg.ca/d/j5wn-5wz7
Things to be aware of when using the Winnipeg LRS:
Although attempts have been made to ensure the geometry and attribute data is correct, errors still exist in the network. Please use at your own risk.
The LRS segments have been digitized in the direction of the municipal addressing
For more information on linear referencing as a concept, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_referencing
Querying over HTTP
Splitgraph serves as an HTTP API that lets you run SQL queries directly on
this data to power Web applications. For example:
curl https://data.splitgraph.com/sql/query/ddn \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d@-<<EOF
{"sql": "
SELECT *
FROM \"winnipeg-ca/city-of-winnipeg-lrs-jwfi-vjqw\".\"city_of_winnipeg_lrs\"
LIMIT 100
"}
EOF
See the Splitgraph documentation
for more information.