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Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Latitude : 45.41, Longitude : -75.71
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Ottawa is a city in Ontario, Canada at latitude 45.41, longitude -75.71.

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This page contains information relating to mapping activity that is specific to the city of Ottawa in Ontario, Canada.

Ottawa is the National Capital of Canada

Contents

Bilingual street names

The majority of streets in Ottawa are tagged with name=XXXX street therefore

Please tag roads in the city of Ottawa with:

A rule set for Maperitive is available that displays the French version of the street name.

properties map-background-color : #F1EEE8 map-background-opacity : 1 map-sea-color : #B5D0D0 font-weight : bold font-family : Verdana Bold text-halo-width : 25% text-halo-opacity : 0.75 text : name:fr

Do not abbreviate street endings. Note that the French equivalent of an English street type is USUALLY as follows:

See also http://www.ottawa.ca/residents/bylaw/a_z/municipal_addressing_en.html which is the authority

Status

The coverage of Ottawa is fairly complete. Much of the content has come from Canvec, but there is also original content from various contributors.

Major construction projects

The City of Ottawa has a number of major construction projects underway today (8 April 2012) or planned.

Bronson Reconstruction

Currently, the Bronson Reconstruction project sees Bronson closed between Somerset and Raymond/Catherine. This has affected some of the one-way cross-streets between Bronson and Percy. The road closures, one-way to two-way changes and detour routes D-1 and D-2 have been implemented based on the information on the City of Ottawa's website in changeset #11231747 by Keeper of Maps. The construction started 27 March 2012 and is supposed to end by December 2012.

Arteries

Highway 417, Queensway

This is fairly well mapped in both directions as one-way ways. Off and on ramps are largely missing. (These should be tagged as below) 

On-ramp example
* k="highway", v="motorway_link"
* k="name", v="Highway 417 Eastbound" 
Off-ramp example
* k="highway", v="motorway_link"
* k="name", v="Sparks Street"
* k="ref", v="Exit 123 / Sparks Street"
When ramps split / merge use more-specific descriptions where applicable

Mapped west to construction in Arnprior. Mapped all the way to Montreal in the east bound direction.

Highway 416, Veterans Memorial

Mapped south bound only (Oct 28th, 2006), except for the northernmost section that joins up with the 417.

Noted that the coastline along the seaway crossing includes the bridge crossing to the US at the end of the 416, where it joins the 401 as a land bridge. Its a big bridge, but not that big! The coastline is an automatically loaded coastline. If we fix it will it simply be unfixed at somepoint??

Highway 17

Mapped from the 417 split out to Trim Road in both directions. Missing on and off ramps at most locations.

Bridges

Reference: List of bridges in Ottawa

All bridges are seperate ways except where noted in the table as being "via" another road.

Bridges
Waterway Name Type* Connecting Notes
Ottawa River OCRR R Vydon Acres, Quebec Pontiac-Station, Quebec
Champlain Bridge V Island Park Drive, Westboro Place Samuel-de-Champlain, Aylmer, Gatineau, Quebec NCC owned.
Prince of Wales Bridge R Bayview Hull, Gatineau, Quebec
Chaudière Bridge V Booth Street, Lebreton Flats Rue Eddy, Hull
Portage Bridge V Wellington Street, Lebreton Flats Boulevard Maisonneuve, Hull


Interprovincial (Alexandra) Bridge V St. Patrick Street and Murray Street, Lower Town Boulevard St-Laurent, Hull
Macdonald-Cartier Bridge V King Edward Avenue, Lower Town Autoroute de la Gatineau (Autoroute 5), Hull Done, Quebec bound only
Rideau River Sussex Drive V Lower Town New Edinburgh via Sussex Drive
Minto Bridges V King Edward, Lower Town Union Street, New Edinburgh
St. Patrick Bridge V St. Patrick Street, Lower Town Beechwood Avenue, Vanier
Cummings Bridge V Rideau Street, Sandy Hill Montreal Road, Vanier
Hurdman Bridge V Sandy Hill Eastway Gardens via the Queensway, Highway 417.
Pedestrian bridge P Algonquin College's (former) Rideau Campus, Ottawa East Hurdman Park
Transitway B Lees Transitway Station Hurdman Transitway Station.
G. McIlraith Bridge V Main Street, Old Ottawa South Smyth Road, Alta Vista.
Billings Bridge V Old Ottawa South Alta Vista via Bank Street
G. Dunbar Bridge V Carleton University Riverside Park via Bronson Avenue
O-Train bridge T Carleton stop Confederation stop
Heron Road Bridge V Baseline Road, Courtland Park Heron Road, Alta Vista Also crosses the Rideau Canal
Hog's Back Road V Rideau View Riverside Park
  • via Hog's Back Road
  • Owned by the NCC
  • Also crosses over the Rideau Canal
  • Partly mapped?
OCRR Railway Bridge V Merivale Mooney's Bay
Michael J. E. Sheflin Bridge V Clearview Airport-Uplands via Hunt Club Road
Nicolls Island Road V Nicolls Island The mainland in Gloucester
Bridge Street V Bridge Street, Manotick Mitch Owens Road, Osgoode
Regional Road 6 V Connects Roger Stevens Drive, Kars Snake Island Road, Osgoode
Highway 416 V Reevcraig Sabourins Crossing
Regional Road 44 V Becketts Landing Kemptville
Burritts Rapids Bridge V Donnelly Drive, Burritts Rapids County Road 22, North Grenville
West Branch of the Rideau River Barnsdale Road V Nepean Manotick
Bridge Street V Downtown Manotick Long Island duplicate of Bridge st, above?
Rideau Canal Plaza Bridge V Wellington Street, Centre Town Rideau Street, By Ward Market
Mackenzie King Bridge V Albert and Slater Streets, Centre Town Waller Street, Sandy Hill The transitway also uses this bridge
Laurier Bridge V Centre Town University of Ottawa via Laurier Avenue.
Pedestrian Bridge V Centre Town Ottawa University Campus Transitway Station
Queensway V Glebe and Centretown Old Ottawa East via Highway 417.
Pretoria Bridge V Elgin Street, Glebe Hawthorne Avenue, Old Ottawa East This is a Lift bridge
Bank Street Bridge V Glebe Old Ottawa South
Bronson Avenue V Glebe Carleton University
Rail tunnel T Carleton station Carling station
  • just west of Dows Lake
  • Used by O-Train
Heron Road Bridge V see above
Hog's Back Road V see above

Primary Roads

These are roads dividing neighborhoods.

Neighbourhoods

Neighbourhood mapping state. List from Wikipedia:List_of_Ottawa_neighbourhoods.

Central

Central Neighborhoods
Area Neighborhood  % Notes Area Boundaries
Downtown Byward Market
Centre Town
Centre Town West
Downtown 5%
  • Need to photo street signs.
Glebe 5%
  • Need to photo street signs.
Old Ottawa East 90%
  • Need to photo street signs.
  • Missing a few lane ways, north of the queensway & rideau gardens, SW of main
  • St. Paul's grounds / parks
  • Immaculata grounds
  • community churchs
    • Calvary Baptist Church
    • Holy Canadian Martyrs
    • Peace Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church
    • Wesley United Church
    • Holy Ghost Portuguese Community Centre
    • Church of the Ascension
    • Sainte-Famille / Sagrada familia
Old Ottawa South 30%
  • Need to photo street signs. (some done on the initial bike ride)
Lebreton Flats
  • Need to update for recent construction.
Lowertown 0%
  • North of Sandy hill (N of Rideau, East of King Edward)
Sandy Hill 80%
  • Need to photo street signs.
  • All streets west of King Edward were missed. (UofO, and roads north of)
East of Downtown Castle Heights
Finter Quarries
Forbes
Lees Avenue
Lindenlea
Manor Park
New Edinburgh
Rockcliffe Park
Overbrook
Vanier
Viscount Alexander Park
South of Downtown Airport-Uplands
Alta Vista
Billings Bridge
Confederation Heights
Eastway Gardens
Ellwood
Hawthorne Meadows
Heron Gate
Hunt Club
Hunt Club Chase
Hunt Club Estate
Hunt Club Woods
Mooney's Bay
Riverside Park
Riverview
Sheffield Glen
South Keys
West of Downtown Bel-Air Heights
Bel-Air Park
Braemar Park
Britannia
Britannia Bay
Carlington
Civic Hospital
Copeland Park
Courtland Park
Glabar Park
Hampton Park
Highland Park
Hintonburg
Kenson Park
Lincoln Heights
McKellar Heights
McKellar Park
Mechanicsville
Michelle Heights
Ottawa West
Queensway Terrace North
Queensway
Redwood
Rideau View
Tunney's Pasture
  • Needs some updating for new parking regime.
Westboro 10%
  • Need to photo street signs.
  • Missing some privates N of transitway, E of churchhill
Whitehaven
Woodroffe North
Further West of Downtown
(The former city of Nepean) 		Arbeatha Park
Arlington Woods
Barrhaven
Bayshore
Bell's Corners
Borden Farm
Boyce
Briar Green
Carleton Heights
Cedarhill Estates
Centrepointe 75%
  • Need to photo street signs.
  • Do outside the Centrepointe loop, inside is now mapped.
  • Do centrepointe park foot paths, pond, path to transitway & skate park
  • (Note when comparing vs. google maps that the new developement west of centrepointe is missing... yeah for something not of duplicated effort!)
City View
Clearview
Country Place
Craig Henry
Crestview
Crystal Bay
Crystal Beach
Davidson Heights
Fallowfield
Fisher Glen
Fisher Heights
Fraservale
Graham Park
Grenfell Glen
Hearts Desire
Hillsdale
Jockvale
Knollsbrook
Leslie Park
Longfields
Lynwood Village
Manordale
Meadowlands
The Meadows
Merivale Gardens
Navaho
Nepean
Orchard Estates
Parkwood Hills
Pheasant Run
Pineglen
Qualicum
Rideau Glen
Rocky Point
Ryan Farm
Shirleys Bay
Skyline
Tanglewood
Trend Village
Twin Elm
Westcliffe Estates

West

Kanata and surrounding communities, west of Highway 416.

East

Orleans and surrounding communities, east of the Hichway 416/16 split.

South

Surrounding Communities

These are way down the list but if you happen to be driving around...

Waterways

The river and canals need to be added. I haven't managed to get the landsat plugin for josm working. With that it should be fairly easy to do...

Parks and Trails

A list of all parks in Ottawa is available at http://www.ottawa.ca/residents/parks_recreation/parks/locations/all_locations_en.html

this needs to be transcribed here (or into its own page) so we can track which parks have been mapped.

All paths within an Ottawa park should be considered multi use ie cycling permitted unless signed cycles prohibited. This follows a conversation with an Ottawa city official about why some paths in parks where marked down as cycle in their cycle map and other identical ones weren't. The signage on the paths was the same.

Please tag NCC and Ottawa City cycle paths as highway=path, foot=yes, bicycle=yes

Please tag signed cycle routes as bicycle=designated

Please tag paved hard shoulders as shoulder:access:bicycle=yes shoulder:surface=paved

There are rule sets available to render these correctly in Maperitive etc.


(see also: Gatineau, below)

Sports Fields

ultimate, soccer, hockey arenas, etc.

Urban Path System

Public Transport

Points of Interest

Campuses

The Reading University map created by TomChance is really beautiful...

University of Ottawa

Carleton University

Algonquin College

Other Projects?

Crossing the River, Gatineau and Environs

Roadways

Gatineau Park


See also

WikiProject Canada Ontario

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