Rivers and Lakes

General description

GeoDataset name: Rivers and Lakes

This dataset is an excerpt from the ArcWorld and was prepared by Grid Arendal, Norway, as part of INSROP Project I.3.1 in 1994. The dataset is in scale 1:1 mill., and includes the area north of 50°N and from 0°E eastwards to 150°W.

Technical description

The data set consists of two shapefiles:

Polylines: riv3marc.shp

Polygons: riv3mpol.shp

Polyline features

Shapefile name: riv3marc.shp

Path: <NSR_DATA>\basecart\arcworld

GeoDataset type: Shapefile with PolyLine features.

Coordinate system: Latitude/longitude in decimal degrees

Label field: Cntry_name

* Rivers and Lakes

6033 PolyLines, 11 descriptive fields.

Fields: [<Name>] -- <Alias> (type of field)

[Riv3mdd_] -- "Riv3mdd_" (Numeric, no decimals)

[Riv3mdd_id] -- "Riv3mdd_id" (Numeric, no decimals)

[Type] -- "River line type" (Numeric, no decimals)

[River_type] -- "River type" (String, max. 20 characters)

[River_rank] -- "River rank" (Numeric, no decimals)

[Riv_coinc] -- "Riv_coinc" (Numeric, no decimals)

[Country1] -- "Country1" (String, max. 2 characters)

[Country2] -- "Country2" (String, max. 2 characters)

[Cntry_name] -- "Country name" (String, max. 41 characters)

[Region] -- "Region" (String, max. 9 characters)

[Continent] -- "Continent" (String, max. 7 characters)

Polygon features

Shapefile name: riv3mpol.shp

Path: <NSR_DATA>\basecart\arcworld

GeoDataset type: Shapefile with Polygon features.

Coordinate system: Latitude/longitude in decimal degrees

* Rivers and Lakes

3253 Polygons, 2 descriptive fields.

Fields: [<Name>] -- <Alias> (type of field)

[Riv3mdd_] -- "Riv3mdd_" (Numeric, no decimals)

[Riv3mdd_id] -- "Rivers/Lakes polygon type" (Numeric, no decimals)