Perth County Launches a New Road Map

by Bob Montgomery

Perth County’s Geographic Information Systems Team launched a new Perth County Road Map last week.

GIS Coordinator Gary White says the new map features the County, local municipal, and Provincial road networks along with locations of important community infrastructure such as Hospitals, Municipal offices and Libraries. White says the last Perth County Map was done in 2013 and there have been a lot of changes in the last ten years so a new map was due.

White says the GIS team has been working on the new map for about eight months and the first thing they did was make sure any new roads were on the map. They also reached out to the four municipalities of North Perth, West Perth, Perth East and Perth South to ask what features they'd like to see on the new map besides roads.

White says the request for a paper map came from the member municipalities and so the first step is a paper map. But he says over time they will also create a digital map that will be available on the Perth County GIS web site. But White says one of the advantages of a paper map is that it never runs out of batteries.

Copies of the new Perth County Road Map are available to pick up free of charge at local municipal and other locations across the County:

• Perth County Courthouse: 1 Huron Street, Stratford

• Municipality of North Perth: 330 Wallace Avenue North, Listowel

• Township of Perth South: 3191 Road 122, St. Pauls

• Township of Perth East: 25 Mill Street East, Milverton

• Municipality of West Perth: 160 Wellington Street, Mitchell

• Stratford-Perth Archives: 4273 Line 34, Stratford