This fundamental base data is used in many business processes at the City; generally for all base mapping and cartographic production, and applications including emergency services provision and fire dispatch, address coding (locators), a public road closures application, the Official Plan mapping, Operations maintenance activities, the Road Patrol application, Maximo, etc. It is coded with many attributes designed to support these uses, details of which are found in the "Entity Attribute" section of this metadata.

Updates to this data are sent to Kitchener Fire Dispatch(under contract for Dispatch services), and the Region of Waterloo,for inclusion in their road networks, and is also shared further with other agencies, sometimes via the Region.

Road segments represented in this data include all public access roads within the City of Waterloo. Segments which represent access lanes within City parks and facilities are also included. Some private roads are included where they have had "public" road names assigned, and have had addresses assigned on them (notably: developments at Boardwalk, Barrelyards, and Bearinger (north of Northfield)). This practice should be discouraged in future, though it seems to be at the discretion of Building Standards to grant these developer requests.

Address range values are based on actual addresses assigned, not theoretical ranges.

A version of thisis published as Open Data athttps://data.waterloo.ca/datasets/roads.