World Land Areas, 1:10 million (2012)

Description:

This polygon shapefile depicts land, including major islands. Data was derived from 10m coastline. Continental polygons broken into smaller, contiguous pieces to avoid having too many points in any one polygon, facilitating faster data processing in certain software applications. Coastline accuracy is suspect for northern Russia and southern Chile. This theme (and it’s inverse cousin, Ocean) are used to clip the raster imagery. These data are represented at 1:10,000,000 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. Kelso, N.V. and Patterson, T. (2012). World Land Areas, 1:10 million (2012). Made with Natural Earth, online at http://www.naturalearthdata.com.

Resource Link:

https://purl.stanford.edu/rx147ws1345

Identifier:

https://purl.stanford.edu/rx147ws1345

Language:

English

Creator:

Patterson, Tom and Kelso, Nathaniel Vaughn

Publisher:

North American Cartographic Information Society

Provider:

Stanford

Resource Class:

Datasets

Subject:

Continents and Boundaries

Temporal Coverage:

2012

Date Issued:

2012

Spatial Coverage:

Earth (Planet)

Access Rights:

Public

Format:

Shapefile