World Playas, 1:10 million (2012)
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- 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. 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 |
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Form | Shapefile |
Extent | 0.086 |
Publisher | North American Cartographic Information Society |
Date valid | 2012 |
Publication date | 2012 |
Edition | 2.0.0 |
Language | English |
Digital origin | born digital |
Map data | Scale not given. ; W 118°50ʹ9ʺ--E 119°56ʹ14ʺ/N 54°3ʹ--S 30°21ʹ4ʺ, Scale not given ; EPSG::4326 |
Creators/Contributors
Creator | Patterson, Tom | |
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Creator | Kelso, Nathaniel Vaughn |
Subjects
Subject | Playas |
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Subject | Salt pans (Geology) |
Subject | Earth (Planet) |
Subject | 2012 |
Subject | Boundaries |
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). World Playas, 1:10 million (2012). Made with Natural Earth, online at http://www.naturalearthdata.com.
Collection
Natural earth
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