Energy and Transportation Infrastructure

TerrAdapt:Cascadia uses two primary data sources for regional energy and transportation infrastructure. The first, OpenStreetMap (OSM), is an open source global repository of infrastructure data that is updated daily by a world-wide community of volunteers collaborating to keep OSM up-to-date. The following OSM datasets are accessed by our workflow each year from Geofabric via their North American OSM data download portal:

• Roads of various types that we aggregate into the following categories: freeways, primary roads, secondary roads, residential roads, and service roads

• Railroads

• Footpaths

• Canals

• Quarries

• Campsites and campgrounds

• Dams

• Pipelines

• Electrical power substations

• Solar energy infrastructure (solar arrays)

• Wind energy infrastructure (wind turbines)

In addition, we supplement OSM roads data in British Columbia with additional roads data from the British Columbia Cumulative Effects Framework Integrated Roads Data Set. We aggregate the BC integrate roads data into the following categories: freeways, primary roads, secondary roads, residential roads, service roads, and footpaths.