The National Waterway Network is a comprehensive network database of the nation's navigable waterways. The data set covers the 48 contiguous states plus the District of Columbia, Hawaii, Alaska, Puerto Rico and water links between. The nominal scale of the dataset varies with the source material. The majority ofthe information is at 1:100,000 with larger scales used in harbor/bay/port areas and smaller scales used in open waters.
Creator:
Oak Ridge National Laboratories, U.S. Bureau of Census, National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Vanderbilt Engineering Center for Transportation Operations and Research, Research and Innovative Technology Administration's Bureau of Transportation Statistics (RITA/BTS), U.S. Geological Survey, and Vanderbilt Engineering Center for Transportation Operations and Research Vanderbilt University