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Perennial Inland Water Areas of the World (Vmap0)

 ISO19115/19139 XML

Identification info
Title  Perennial Inland Water Areas of the World (Vmap0)
Date  1997-09-01
Date type  Creation: Date identifies when the resource was brought into existence
Edition  First edition.
Presentation form  Digital document: Digital representation of a primarily textual item (can contain illustrations also)
Abstract  Perennial inland water areas of the world extracted from Vector Map Level 0 and converted to Arc/Info format by FAO/GIS. Vector Map (VMap) Level 0 is an updated and improved version Digital Chart of the World (DCW).
Purpose  Base map. The VMap Level 0 database provides worldwide coverage of vector-based geospatial data which can be viewed at 1:1,000,000 scale. It consists of geographic, attribute, and textual data. . VMap Level 0 includes GIS layers for road and rail networks, drainage systems, utility networks, airports, elevation contours, coastlines, international boundaries and populated places.
Status  On going: Data is continually being updated
Descriptive keywords  Inland Water .
Descriptive keywords  World (place).
Spatial representation type  Vector: Vector data is used to represent geographic data
Equivalent scale
Denominator 

1000000

Language  English
Character set  UTF8: 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646
Topic category code  Inland waters
Extent
Geographic bounding box
North bound
West bound
Polygon((-180 -90,180 -90,180 90,-180 90,-180 -90))
 East bound
South bound
Supplemental Information  The major differences between VMAP0 and the DCW are the elimination of the gazette layer, addition of bathymetric data and updated political boundaries. The data structure is originally Vector Product Format (VPF) to US Military Standard (MIL-STD-2407) which is compliant with the international standard, Digital Geographic Information Exchange Standard (DIGEST) Annex C. The VMap Level 0 feature and attribute content is defined in the US Military Specification for VMap Level 0(MIL-V-89039).
Distribution Information
Transfer options
OnLine resource  link to NIMA website
Interactive Map  Perennial Inland Water Areas of the World (Vmap0)
(OGC-WMS Server: http://data.fao.org/maps/wms?styles=geonetwork_inwatr_p_1270_style )
View in Google Earth  Perennial Inland Water Areas of the World (Vmap0)   View in Google Earth
OnLine resource  inwatr_p-2.axl
Data for download  Perennial Inland Water Areas of the World (Vmap0) shapefile (download size: 43MB)
OnLine resource  inwatr_p.axl
Data quality info
Hierarchy level  Dataset: Information applies to the dataset
Description  Last Updated
Date / Time  2002-05-31 19:58:00
Metadata
File identifier  c28af140-88fd-11da-a88f-000d939bc5d8
Metadata language  English
Character set  UTF8: 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646
Date stamp  2005-11-09T18:02:18
Metadata standard name  ISO 19115:2003/19139
Metadata standard version  1.0
Maintenance and update frequency  As needed: Data is updated as deemed necessary
Contact
Organisation name  FAO - UN SDRN
Role  Point of contact: Party who can be contacted for acquiring knowledge about or acquisition of the resource
Delivery point  Viale delle Terme di Caracalla
City  Rome
Postal code  00100
Country  Italy
Electronic mail address  gis-manager@fao.org