World Lakes, 1:50 million (2012) - UC Berkeley GeoData

World Lakes, 1:50 million (2012)

Description:

This polygon shapefile depicts natural and artificial lakes worldwide. Includes name attributes. Ranked by relative importance, coordinating with river ranking. Includes name attributes. Data was derived from the United States Central Intelligence Agency's World Data Bank 2 with numerous reservoir additions imagery sources. The diminishing areal extent of the Aral Sea and Lake Chad derives from more recent satellite imagery 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:

Bodies of water, Lakes, and Inland Waters

Theme:

Inland Waters

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:

More details at:

https://purl.stanford.edu/wy727xj1078