North American Railroads, 1:10 million (2012)
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This polyline shapefile represents railroads in North America only. The “basic” railroads at 10m scale are from Commission for Environmental Cooperation's North America Environmental Atlas with no attributes and only 1 scale rank class. There are no attributes and precision XY accuracy is to 20m not 10m. These data are represented at 1:10,000,000 scale. This layer is part of the Natural Earth Collection (v.2.0.0).
- Purpose
- 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.
Description
| Type of resource | cartographic, software, multimedia |
|---|---|
| Form | Shapefile |
| Extent | 1.073 |
| Publisher | North American Cartographic Information Society |
| Publication date | 2012 |
| Edition | 2.0.0 |
| Language | English |
| Digital origin | born digital |
| Map data | 1:10000000 ; W 150°4ʹ54ʺ--W 59°56ʹ53ʺ/N 64°55ʹ52ʺ--N 8°19ʹ45ʺ, Scale not given ; EPSG::4326 |
Creators/Contributors
| Creator | Patterson, Tom | |
|---|---|---|
| Creator | Kelso, Nathaniel Vaughn |
Subjects
| Subject | Railroads |
|---|---|
| Subject | North America |
| Subject | 2012 |
| Subject | Transportation |
| Genre | Geospatial data |
| Genre | Cartographic dataset |
Bibliographic information
Access conditions
- Use and reproduction
- This item is in the public domain. There are no restrictions on use.
- Copyright
- This work is in the Public Domain, meaning that it is not subject to copyright.
Preferred citation
- Preferred citation
- Kelso, N.V. and Patterson, T. (2012). North American Railroads, 1:10 million (2012). Made with Natural Earth, online at http://www.naturalearthdata.com.
Collection
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