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<h1>Waterway <img src="http://wiki.thinkgeo.com/wiki/_media/waterway_vector_polyline.png?w=18&h=18&t=1546849171&tok=3dadf9" /></h1>
<h3>Buffer: 12.5%, Min Zoom Level: 4</h3>

Contains classes for rivers, stream, canal, drain, and ditch as line type. From zoom level 4 to 9, the data of waterway is from <a href=http://www.naturalearthdata.com">Natural Earth</a>, and the zoom levels bigger than 10, the data is from <a href="https://openstreetmap.org">OpenStreetMap</a>. As for the <a href=http://www.naturalearthdata.com">Natural Earth</a> data, the waterway layer are filtered by different types of data and the value of scale-rank. 
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===== Columns =====

==== class ====
A category of waters, so that you can easily track a specific water object. The possible values can be:

^Value             ^Description^
|'' 'river' ''  |A natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river.|
|'' 'stream' '' |Very small waterway, usually no wider than a meter or two.|
|'' 'canal' ''  |An artificial waterway constructed for passage of boats or ships.|
|'' 'drain' ''  |Artificial channel for rainwater drainage, often concrete lined.|
|'' 'ditch' ''  |Small artificial channel dug in the ground for rainwater drainage.|

==== name ====
The name of the river. 

==== name_en ====
The name of the river in English.

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