usrivers: US Major Rivers (2010)

In usmap: US Maps Including Alaska and Hawaii

US Major Rivers (2010)

Description

Major rivers in the United States.

The data is can be transformed with usmap_transform(). Once the Shape strings are transformed, it can be added to plot_usmap() using a ggplot2::geom_sf() layer.

Usage

data(usrivers)

Format

A simple features (sf) data frame with 55 rows and 5 variables.

Details

• NAME The name of the river.

• SYSTEM The system the river belongs to.

• MILES The length of the river in miles.

• Shape_Length The length of the river in the coordinate system.

• Shape The MULTILINESTRING features depicting the river, for plotting.

References

• https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=290e4ab8a07f4d2c8392848d011add32#!

• Sources: Esri; Rand McNally; Bartholemew and Times Books; Digital Chart of the World (DCW), U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA); i-cubed

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