World River and Lake Centerlines, 1:10 million (2012)

Description:

This polyline shapefile depicts single-line drainages and lake centerlines worldwide ranked by relative importance. Includes name and line width attributes for creating tapered drainages. River data is primarily derived from the World Data Bank 2. All rivers received manual smoothing and position adjustments to fit shaded relief generated from SRTM Plus elevation data, which is more recent and (presumably) more accurate. Turn on centerlines to avoid data gaps. These data are represented at 1:10,000,000 scale. This layer is part of the Natural Earth Collection (v.2.0.0). Natural Earth is a public domain map dataset available at 1:10, 1:50 and 1:110 million scales. Featuring tightly integrated vector and raster data, with Natural Earth you can make a variety of visually pleasing, well-crafted maps with cartography or GIS software. Kelso, N.V. and Patterson, T. (2012). World River and Lake Centerlines, 1:10 million (2012). Made with Natural Earth, online at http://www.naturalearthdata.com.

Creator:

Patterson, Tom and Kelso, Nathaniel Vaughn

Publisher:

North American Cartographic Information Society

Provider:

Stanford

Collection:

Natural earth

Resource Class:

Datasets

Resource Type:

Line data

Subject:

Bodies of water, Rivers, Lakes, and Inland Waters

Temporal Coverage:

2012

Date Issued:

2012

Spatial Coverage:

Earth (Planet)

Access Rights:

Public

Format:

Shapefile

More details at:

https://purl.stanford.edu/fv375tj7951