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Title: World Utility Lines, 1997

Dates

• Coverage: 1997

Publishers

• National Imagery and Mapping Agency

Summary

Utility Lines is a line theme representing Pipelines, Power lines and Telephone lines throughout the world. This layer is a part of the VMap 0 Database. The Vector Map (VMap) Level 0 database represents the third edition of the Digital Chart of the World. The second edition was a limited release item published 1995 09. The product is dual named to show its lineage to the original DCW, published in 1992, while positioning the revised product within a broader emerging-family of VMap products. VMap Level 0 is a comprehensive 1:1,000,000 scale vector basemap of the world. It consists of cartographic, attribute, and textual data stored on compact disc read only memory (CD-ROM). The primary source for the database is the National Imagery and Mapping Agency's (NIMA) Operational Navigation Chart (ONC) series. This is the largest scale unclassified map series in existence that provides consistent, continuous global coverage of essential basemap features. The database contains more than 1,900 megabytes of vector data and is organized into 10 thematic layers. The data includes major road and rail networks, major hydrologic drainage systems, major utility networks (cross-country pipelines and communication lines), all major airports, elevation contours (1000 foot(ft), with 500ft and 250ft supplemental contours), coastlines, international boundaries and populated places. The database can be accessed directly from the four optical CD-ROMs that store the database or can be transferred to a magnetic media.

Subjects

• World
• UtilitiesCommunications
• Datasets

Geospatial coordinates

• Bounding Box: BBOX (-179.948303, 180.0, 71.117416, -53.791397)
• Geometry: BBOX (-179.948303, 180.0, 71.117416, -53.791397)

Provider

Columbia

Rights

• Access rights: Restricted

Citation

National Imagery and Mapping Agency. World Utility Lines, 1997. National Imagery and Mapping Agency. Line data. https://geodata.library.columbia.edu/catalog/sde-columbia-landinfo_world_utilitylines_1997

Format

Shapefile

Languages

• English