Québec

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To visit the page of the city Québec: Quebec City.

OpenStreetMap Portal for Québec

V・T・E Québec, Canada

latitude: 53.94, longitude: -71.80

Browse map of Québec 53°56′24.00″ N, 71°48′00.00″ W

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Québec is a province in Canada at latitude 53°56′24.00″ North, longitude 71°48′00.00″ West.

Participating in the OSM project in Quebec

• Check out the list of users in Quebec
• Ask your questions or comment in French or English on the Canadian OSM community forum
• Subscribe to the OSM Canada mailing list and introduce yourself (in English or French). However, this mailing list is increasingly less used. Use the forum instead for faster responses.
• Check out the Agenda du Libre du Québec to participate in an event - or announce an event there (not very active for OSM recently)

A Sense of Scale

The Quebec roads total approximately 185,000 km. At a mapping speed of 5km/h, in groups of 10 people working 10 hours a day, this would necessitate 370 days of walking. If done on all 52 weekends of a year, that's 7,1 years.

Tagging guidelines

Roads

• Motorway: autoroutes, including the two-lane ways where you can drive 100, and spur roads with 4xx, 5xx, 6xx or 9xx designations;
• Trunk: autoroute part of National Highway Service (federal) (NHS) that is not dual carriageway (ie: double central yellow line and not separated by grass). Good example is the autoroute 50 between Lachute and Gatineau as well as the 117 up to Ontario border.
• Primary: roads in the 100-199 range, or main roads in big cities;
• Secondary: roads in the 200-399 range, or main roads in big cities;
• Tertiary: roads to villages not lying along one of the previous mentioned roads; important roads in residential areas;
• Residential: other roads in residential areas;
• Unclassified: other roads outside residential areas;
• Service: small lanes / alleys giving access to individual building, parking lots, etc., ruelles (mostly in Montreal and parts of Quebec City )

Quebec Main Cities

• Alma
• Gatineau
• Laval
• Lévis (inclus dans la région de la Capitale-nationale)
• Longueuil
• Mont-Laurier
• Montréal
• Québec (Région de la ville de Québec ou région de la Capitale-nationale)
• Rimouski
• Saguenay (Chicoutimi)
• Sherbrooke
• Trois-Rivières

Download

The Garmin MapSource (Windows) Installer file is available here http://www.mediafire.com/file/1tyizmo3ngj/OSM Routable Quebec 30 April 2010.exe created from the OSM download of the outline of the province from http://downloads.cloudmade.com/north_america/canada/quebec#downloads_breadcrumbs

• You can download the 1x2 Ibycus Topo which holds the GeoBase Import data which will eventually get imported to OpenStreetMap.
  • here Which is the 021L area of the Geobase Map covering the Quebec city area.
  • here Which is the 31H12 area of the Geobase Map covering the Montreal area. (download H3 to H6 & H13 to H16 to get the 1 degree area)

• As well as the 1 degree x 1 degree OSM tile
  • Quebec City area here, and the one to the east (to cover the other map) from here
  • Montreal area here

ComputerTeddy's map. It's a zip file, just needs to be unziped. You can use sendmap to get the maps on your GPS device. --acrosscanadatrails 04:12, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Highways

• Canada:Quebec/Highway relations

See also

• Canada