Rivers, Lake Centerlines

rivers_lake_centerlines_thumbSingle-line drainages including optional lake centerlines.

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About

Ranked by relative importance. Includes name and line width attributes.

Includes tapering attributes:

(below) Congo River basin, Africa.

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Includes scale ranks (large rivers, small rivers):

(below) Southern United States.

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Avoid data dump overload:

(below) Quebec, Canada in Natural Earth compared to Digital Chart of the World.

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Issues

Does not include intermittent rivers (eg: large seasonal rivers in Australia draining to Lake Eyre playas).

Version History

The master changelog is available on Github »

Feature List

Scale Rank
 Feature Class Name
2
 River Brahmaputra
2
 River Mekong
2
 River Ob
2
 River Peace
2
 River Danube
2
 River Paraná
2
 River Peace
2
 River Congo
1
 River Lena
1
 River Chang (Yangtze)
1
 River Nile
1
 River Amazon
1
 River Mississippi
1
 River Yangtze

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