Digital Road Atlas Master Partially-Attributed Roads provides partial information about roads in British Columbia. This data set represents the public data that is available for the Digital Road Atlas.

This tabular dataset is the result of an analysis completed for the Roads & Roadless Areas in B.C. indicator published on Environmental Reporting BC. Roaded and roadless areas were determined using the B.C. Digital Road Atlas, the best available single source of road data for British Columbia. The analysis was done on Digital Road Atlas data available as of May 1st, 2018. All paved roads and unpaved roads and trails that allow motorized vehicle use—as detailed in the Digital Road Atlas Data Dictionary—were included in the analysis. Some road features available in the Digital Road Atlas were excluded, including non-roads (ferry routes, proposed roads, pedestrian only roads, non-motorized trails and water access routes) and non-active roads (decommissioned and overgrown roads). Roaded areas were defined as areas within 500 metres of a road. Roadless areas were defined as areas greater than 500 metres from a road. Areas are reported in hectares to three significant figures for two distance classes: 0 to 500m from a road (roaded) and greater than 500m from a road (not roaded) for British Columbia and for each ecoregion. The R code for reproducing this indicator summary data is available on GitHub.

City of Merritt Transporation data:Bike lanesBridgesTrails and pathwaysTruck RoutesNote: Road centerline information for the City of Merritt is derived from the GeoBC digital road atlas found here: https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/digital-road-atlas-dra-demographic-partially-attributed-roads

The Landmark Kilometre Inventory spatial layer is used primarily by the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure (MOT) to represent routes against which accident data and traffic counts are collected. This method describes roads by a four number designation referred to as a segment (i.e. 0375) This spatial layer was created based on Digital Road Atlas (DRA) centerline using linear referencing

Primary forest is natural forest of any age. Primary forest includes forest disturbed naturally, for example by wildfire, insects or wind, but excludes forest that has been degraded by logging, roads, or other industrial human activities. Not all primary forest is old, but all old growth in BC is primary forest.Park and protected area boundaries are black.We used the Vegetation Resource Inventory data to define the forested landscape as lands having a site index of over 5. We defined lower productivity primary forest as having a site index of 5 to 10, and higher productivity primary forest as having a site index of 10 +. The industrially disturbed lands layer includes existing and approved cutblocks, roads, pipeline right of ways, major mines, transmission lines, agricultural land, and private land.Data were downloaded in February, March and November 2020 from the BC Data Catalogue, the BC Oil and Gas Commission Centre portal, and the federal NFIS. Layers used are listed below. Provincial forest inventory data are coarse and this map may not be accurate at fine scales, or accurately depict logging prior to 1985.Visit us at https://conservationnorth.org/ to find out how you can help protect BC's remaining primary and old growth forests.Data used:Harvesting:Harvested Areas of BC (Consolidated Cutblocks) (2023, Febuary)RESULTS - Openings svw (2023, January)Forest Tenure Cutblock Polygons (FTA 4.0) (2023, March)NFIS Harvest Year / Mask 1985 -2015 (2023, December)NFIS CA Forest Harvest 1985 -2020 (2023, Febuary 2023)Forested AreasVRI - 2019 - Forest Vegetation Composite Rank 1 Layer (R1) (2023, May)Non Forest excluded-Query: Site Index under 4.9 Low Productivity-Query: Site Index Between 5.0 and 10Primary forest -Query:Site Index above 10Additional DataParcelMap BC Parcel Fabric (2020, May)Digital Road Atlas (DRA) - Master Partially-Attributed Roads (2020, May)Permitted Mine Areas - Major MineBC (2020 March)Transmission Lines (2020, May)Pipeline Segments (Permitted) (2020, Oct)Pipeline Rights of Way (Permitted) (2020, Oct)BC Parks, Ecological Reserves, and Protected Areas (2020, May)National Parks of Canada within British Columbia (2020, March)