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World Playas, 1:50 million (2012) Polygon Stanford University Public content

Description:
This polygon shapefile depicts major playas, salt pans and intermittent lakes worldwide. Care must be taken not to have playas extend beyond flat areas indicated on the raster shaded relief. Generalized from 10m playas. These data are represented at 1:50,000,000 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.
Creator:
Patterson, Tom and Kelso, Nathaniel Vaughn
Publisher:
North American Cartographic Information Society
Provider:
Stanford
Resource Class:
Datasets
Resource Type:
Polygon data
Subject:
Playas, Salt pans (Geology), and Boundaries
Theme:
Boundaries
Temporal Coverage:
2012
Date Issued:
2012
Spatial Coverage:
Earth (Planet)
Rights:
This item is in the public domain. There are no restrictions on use.
Rights Holder:
This work is in the Public Domain, meaning that it is not subject to copyright.
Access Rights:
Public
Format:
Shapefile
Georeferenced:
false
More details at:
https://purl.stanford.edu/kj615fy0064