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Major rivers

Curated simplified major-rivers subset served as a static app-hosted GeoJSON (public/geo/major-rivers.geojson) - zero server, cost-lean path 2. A coarse cartographic overlay of the world's principal rivers, not a precise hydrological product. Off by default, opt-in. Full HydroRIVERS network + HydroATLAS attributes are DEFER (download-only, no free hosted tiles without a tiler). Swap MAJOR_RIVERS_URL to a fuller simplified export to upgrade.

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Curated simplified major-rivers subset served as a static app-hosted GeoJSON (public/geo/major-rivers.geojson) - zero server, cost-lean path 2. A coarse cartographic overlay of the world's principal rivers, not a precise hydrological product. Off by default, opt-in. Full HydroRIVERS network + HydroATLAS attributes are DEFER (download-only, no free hosted tiles without a tiler). Swap MAJOR_RIVERS_URL to a fuller simplified export to upgrade.

Coverage (inferred)
Worldwide
Freshness
See source
License
Attribution
Source
HydroSHEDS
Provenance

Cartouche · Provenance

Major rivers

Source

HydroSHEDS - major rivers (simplified subset) (Attribution (free research + commercial))

Method

Published dataset

License

AttributionCommercial OK

Attribution

Rivers: HydroSHEDS (WWF); Lehner & Grill 2013 (free use with attribution)

Coordinate system

EPSG:4326

Freshness

See source

Cite as

cartian:layer:ml-hydrosheds-rivers@ref-c93c30e2

Version

vref-c93c30e2

Pin

As-of referencefrozen 2026-07-18
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