### Question
What does highway basemap mean?


### Answer
**Highway basemap** has the following meaning in *23 U.S.C. § 148*:

> a representation of all public roads that can be used to geolocate attribute data on a roadway

#### Citation:
  - *23 U.S.C. § 148*
  - Heading: **CHAPTER 1-FEDERAL-AID HIGHWAYS**

