resource center
resource center
resource center

Title:

Digital Chart of the World (DCW)

Source:

Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (ESRI) 380 New York Street Redlands, California 92373 909-793-2853

Description:

The Digital Chart of the World (DCW) is a digitized 1:1,000,000-scale vector digital basemap of the world originally produced by ESRI for the U.S. Defense Mapping Agency. The principal source materials were DMA Operational Navigation Charts and Jet Navigation Charts for Antarctica. This version of DCW is only for the ARC/INFO geographic information system. It is licensed for academic or research purposes only - a public domain version in a different format (Vector Product Format) is available for purchase from the U.S. Geological Survey.

This map database is available on 4 CDROMs. The database is divided into 2,094 separate tiles with each tile covering an area 5 degrees by 5 degrees. The following thematic data layers (with their abbreviations) are available:

  • AE Aeronautial (Airports)
  • DN Drainage (Inland Water)
  • DQ Data Quality
  • DS Supplemental Drainage)
  • HY Hyposgraphy (Contour lines and elevation zones)
  • HS Supplemental Hypsography
  • LC Land Cover
  • OF Ocean Features
  • PH Physiography (Landforms)
  • PP Populated Places (Urbanized areas & points)