Important Note to RMs: GPS units can help to locate civic addresses BUT THEY DO NOT REPLACE THE SIGNS. Signs still need to be in place at each rural address.
News: We now have the civic addresses for the RMs of Grey, De Salaberry, Hanover, Dufferin and Westbourne (partial) available for GPS units. If you buy a unit from us we can load these locations into the GPS for you at no charge. Just add "load civic addresses" into the comment line of the order form. We are in the process of obtaining more RM civic addresses. Contact us at 1-888-444-0302 or art@gpszone.ca if your RM has this information and wants to make it available. Our fire, police and ambulance customers want this data so they can respond efficiently to rural emergency situations.
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Manitoba Civic Addresses on your Garmin
This new addressing scheme for Manitoba provides a common named reference for residences located along grid roads, small town streets and Provincial Highways. The goal is to make it easier for emergency service providers as well as ordinary folks to find rural homes and businesses. No proprietary components are included in the addressing standard, and the address does not contain any confidential information, so the system is open to unrestricted use by stakeholders.
Here's a brief explanation document with a map.
DLS Grid roads ("mile roads") are being named, with new signs, based on distance
in miles east or west of the principal meridian or north of the US border.
Specific addresses are based on the road you are located on, the nearest N/S
or E/W road
and the frontage interval along the road.
For example:
23084 Road 39W (this is what would be on your sign at the turn-off to your lane)
- first
off, you live along a north/south grid road called "39W" which is the
39th mile-road west of the principal meridian (which is just west of Wpg)
- the
first part of the address, 23084, puts you 840 meters north of the
grid road "23N" (the 23rd mile-road north of the MB/US border)
- the
fact that the 084 is an even number means you are on the west side
of 39W (south and west are even, north and east are odd)
- if you
had a neighbour just on the other side of the road, they would be
23083
- in rural
areas frontage interval numbers are assigned every 20 m intervals
allowing for 160 intervals per mile
- things
can get a little more complex than the above example - complete details
are in the reference
below*
Rural Municipalities
across Manitoba are at different stages of implementing the new addressing
scheme. Most mile road
signs are
up, much of the
mapping has been done and many RMs
have end-of-lane signs in place. Civic addresses are starting to replace
the
quarter section
references
in provincial phone books.
Prairie Geomatics Ltd has developed a simple
way to add these new addresses to Garmin
GPS units such
as
the nüvi vehicle
units or the most
colour-screen handheld units. Civic addresses
appear as small labeled dots on the map screen
(or custom logos as shown in the images below);
the addresses are searchable and your GPS can
do turn-by-turn
navigation
to
them.
Pictured below are some screen samples
using a Garmin nüvi
GPS. We have civic addresses available for several RMs.
References:
*The Civic Addressing Standard For Manitoba (30 page pdf
file) (http://www.amm.mb.ca/PDF/Resources/CivicAddressingStandard.PDF)
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