In the evolving landscape of land use, infrastructure development, and clean energy deployment, one critical piece of the spatial puzzle has remained frustratingly opaque: Roadway Right-of-Ways.
While parcels, buildings, and infrastructure networks have been mapped and digitized in ever-increasing detail, Roadway ROWs have historically not received the same attention, represented only by line segments and attribution, or disjointed and incomplete survey data stored in a variety of locations and media. But that changes today.
Regrid is proud to announce the release of its new Roadway ROW Polygon Data, the first-of-its-kind and (patent-pending), planning-grade dataset that maps the extents of road and rail rights-of-ways across the entire United States. Inclusive of not just the road surface itself but also inclusive of unimproved areas, such as shoulders and medians, this product provides a foundational layer for understanding how land is structured, accessed, and interconnected, delivering the missing piece in the modern land data stack. Importantly, the Regrid ROW Polygon Data is comprehensive, we are including all possible Roadway ROW features within the product inclusive not just of the larger Interstate, State, and County roadways but also inclusive of local, municipal, and even some private roadways when available.
For years, transportation departments, utilities, planners, and developers have relied on street centerline data with ad hoc buffers to estimate where public Roadway ROW land begins and ends, or attempted to acquire and piece together incomplete DOT data. But these methods are insufficient or overly time-consuming, especially when projects need to move quickly and answers are expected in hours, not months.
By delivering true polygonal representations of planning-grade Roadway ROWs, Regrid gives users a spatially accurate, queryable, and nationwide geospatial dataset that transforms how organizations approach land and infrastructure projects. Whether you're planning a highway expansion, siting a solar farm, determining transmission infrastructure optimization, or analyzing vegetation management zones, this dataset reveals the real space public infrastructure already possesses and how it interacts with surrounding parcels.
This isn’t just about better data — it’s about solving real problems. And the use cases are as diverse as they are impactful:
The Roadway ROW Polygon Data is built to integrate seamlessly with Regrid’s industry-leading Nationwide Parcel Data, creating a more complete spatial fabric of land ownership and usage. Together, Parcels and Roadway ROWs offer a powerful, complete view of land; whether publicly or privately held.
Available in GIS-ready formats, the dataset is fully queryable and designed to streamline planning efforts, support smart decision-making, and reduce project timelines. Users can overlay the Roadway ROW data with Parcels, their own infrastructure networks, and environmental constraints to produce highly accurate, high-confidence scoping studies.
The launch of the Regrid Roadway ROW Polygon Data marks a major milestone in Regrid’s mission to make land data more accessible, usable, and meaningful. As infrastructure, energy, and land development needs continue to rise, having a clear understanding of all land, including the sometimes overlooked spaces, has never been more important.
With this release, Regrid empowers professionals across sectors to move beyond outdated assumptions and guesswork and into a world of geographic clarity, efficiency, and impact.
Ready to explore the dataset? Visit regrid.com/roadway to learn more, request a sample, or talk to a member of the Regrid team.