OS Open Rivers
OS Open Rivers GIS data contains over 144,000 km of water bodies and watercourses map data. These include freshwater rivers, tidal estuaries and canals. Understand how water bodies and watercourses in Great Britain join up. OS Open Rivers provides a comprehensive datset of Great Britain's River Network, which approximately indicates the central alignment of the watercourse. Inland and tidal rivers are represented by a series of connected link and node features which are assigned with river name and flow direction.
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OS Open Rivers
https://os.uk
eng
http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/27700
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2008-06-01
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2010-01-13
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2020-10
publication
2015-03-23
revision
2020-10
biannually
OS Open Rivers is a generalised product which has been automatically derived from Ordnance Survey large scale data. The nominal usage scale is 1:25 000, with a recommended viewing scale range of 1:15 000 to 1:30 000.
publication
2010-12-08
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This data conforms except in that it is only available in British Natioanl Grid. We have extended the INSPIRE WatercourseLink feature with four additional attribute, including a simplified approach to providing distinctive names.
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Please acknowledge the copyright and the source of the data by including the following attribution statement: Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2021
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