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World Rivers and Lake Centerlines

Named river lines and lake centerlines for global geographic reference.

Sources and dates

  • Natural Earth: ca96624a56bd078437bca8184e78163e5039ad19. Retrieved (UTC).

Contents

The download contains the populated data, a field dictionary, source metadata, reuse terms, a change log and file digests. It contains no scripts, libraries, executables or conversion tools.

Coverage

Every feature and geometry in the Natural Earth 1:10 million rivers and lake-centerlines layer. This is generalized cartography, not complete stream coverage, current flow data or a routing network. Coordinates are WGS84 longitude, latitude. Source dissolve identifiers repeat or are missing, so exact-content hashes identify this snapshot without dropping segments.

Read the data

JSON tables are arrays of records. GeoJSON files are FeatureCollections, with data fields under each feature’s properties. data-dictionary.json defines the fields, units, nulls and observed types. metadata.json supplies primary keys and source hashes. Preserve identifiers as text and distinguish missing values from zero.

GeoJSON coordinates are WGS84 in longitude, latitude order. Feature IDs are also present in properties.id.

Example record

This is an actual record from the data. For map layers, the example shows properties; the downloaded GeoJSON also contains the complete geometry.

{
  "id": "9426d69c1c9ce11549b59d2bcda6e801aa7db78d7fb70e37e8faf72aa1c105f6",
  "source_dissolve": "0River",
  "name": "Irrawaddy Delta",
  "alternative_name": null,
  "english_name": "Irrawaddy Delta",
  "feature_type": "River",
  "river_number": 0,
  "note": null
}