On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 12:25 PM, Hans-Jörg Bibiko <bibiko@eva.mpg.de> wrote:

> On Jan 8, 2010, at 12:20 PM, Karl Ove Hufthammer wrote:
> > On Fri, 8 Jan 2010 10:11:20 +0100 Hans-Jörg Bibiko <bibiko@eva.mpg.de>
> > wrote:
> >> I've a tiny question. Is there an annotated river dataset available?
> >> By 'annotated' I mean that rivers are ranked by a sort of
> >> relevance/size/length or whatever. The problem is that I have an huge
> >> SpatialLines object called 'rivers' which shows ~23200 rivers  but I
> >> have to draw a map which only shows the most largest ones (let's say
> >> 100 to 150) plus one to three rivers for a country.
>
>
The Natural Earth Data site has some global river shapefile data:

http://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/10m-physical-vectors/

 the one with "scale ranks and tappering" has some metadata which might
relate to size...

Barry

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