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Layer Methodology

Cycling Network

A cross-city view of cycling infrastructure as part of urban ecological mobility.

Snapshot6 cities

Map Role

Cycling corridors that reveal lower-emission mobility structure and network access.

What It Shows

This layer maps cycling corridors so users can read ecological and equity conditions against low-emission mobility infrastructure and access patterns.

Sources

  • Municipal cycling-network open data for the six supported cities

Method

  1. 1.Fetch city-specific cycling network datasets from each municipal source.
  2. 2.Normalize infrastructure classes into a shared set such as protected, painted, shared, and path.
  3. 3.Merge the results into a study-area GeoJSON line layer.

Refresh Cadence

Snapshot ETL. Refresh when municipal cycling datasets are rerun.

Coverage

Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, and Winnipeg.

Key Fields

classification

Normalized cycling facility class used by the legend

city

Source city

Caveats

  • Classification systems differ by city and are normalized into a simplified shared legend.
  • A mapped corridor does not imply quality, comfort, or year-round usability.