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.

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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
Originator
  Natural Earth - Nathaniel Vaughn Kelso ( Project Manager )
Maintenance and update frequency
Unknown
Name
ESRI Shapefile
Version
1.0
Keywords ( Theme )
  • Lake
  • River
  • Centerline
  • Natural
  • Man-made
  • World Data Bank 2
  • Shapefile
Keywords ( 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
Metadata language
en
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Boundaries
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Reference system identifier
WGS 1984
Distribution format
  • ESRI Shapefile ( 1.0 )

OnLine resource
Natural Earth - Rivers, Lake Centerlines data download ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Zip file of data resources

OnLine resource
GitHub Natural Earth Vector ChangeLog ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )

History of changes to the Natural Earth datasets

OnLine resource
Rivers, Lake centerlines ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )

Main information and data download page

Hierarchy level
Dataset
Source
File identifier
c4200c4c-cbb7-4835-8e74-eb452681eabe XML
Metadata language
en
Character set
UTF8
Date stamp
2017-09-19T15:42:59
Metadata standard name
ISO 19115:2003/19139
Metadata standard version
1.0
Point of contact
  USDA/ARS/NAL > National Agricultural Library, Agricultural Research Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture - Erin Antognoli ( Metadata Librarian )
 
 

Overviews

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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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