Natural Earth Rivers, Lake Centerlines (scale ranks + tapering) 1:50m

Shapefile created using generalized single-line drainages including optional lake centerlines data from the 10 million rivers. The 50 million rivers primarily derive from World Data Bank 2. Double line rivers in WDB2 were digitized to created single line drainages. 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.



Lake centerlines obtained by manually drawing connecting segments in reservoirs. When available, Admin 0 and 1 political boundaries in reservoirs serve as the lake centerlines.



Ranked by relative importance. Includes name and line width attributes for creating tapered drainages.

Simple

Date (Revision)
2016-05-17T00:00:00
Edition

3.0.0
Purpose

Suitable for making zoomed-out maps of countries and regions. Show the world on a tabloid size page.
Status
On going
Point of contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Natural Earth

Nathaniel Vaughn Kelso

nathaniel@naturalearthdata.com

Originator
Maintenance and update frequency
Unknown
Resource format
Name Version

ESRI Shapefile

1.0
Theme

  • Lake

  • River

  • Centerline

  • Natural

  • Man-made

  • World Data Bank 2

  • Shapefile
Place

  • World
Access constraints
Copyright
Use constraints
otherRestictions
Other constraints

Does not include intermittent rivers (eg: large seasonal rivers in Australia draining to Lake Eyre playas). Rivers in northeastern Russia and parts of the Amazon basin have suspect alignments.

Spatial representation type
Vector
Denominator
50000000
Language
English
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Boundaries
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Reference system identifier
WGS 1984
Distribution format
Name Version

ESRI Shapefile

1.0
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name

WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download

 		http://geo-dev.nal.usda.gov:8080/geonetwork/srv/eng/resources.get?uuid=c4200c4c-cbb7-4835-8e74-eb452681eabe&fname=Natural Earth - Rivers, Lake Centerlines data download&access=public Natural Earth - Rivers, Lake Centerlines data download

WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

 		https://github.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/blob/master/CHANGELOG

GitHub Natural Earth Vector ChangeLog

WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

 		http://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/50m-physical-vectors/50m-rivers-lake-centerlines/

Rivers, Lake centerlines
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Source

Metadata

File identifier
c4200c4c-cbb7-4835-8e74-eb452681eabe XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Date stamp
2017-09-19T15:42:59
Metadata standard name

ISO 19115:2003/19139
Metadata standard version

1.0
Metadata author
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

USDA/ARS/NAL > National Agricultural Library, Agricultural Research Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture

Erin Antognoli

erin.antognoli@ars.usda.gov

Point of contact
 
 

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Spatial extent

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Keywords

Centerline Lake Man-made Natural River Shapefile World Data Bank 2


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