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Navigable Waterway Network Nodes

Metadata Updated: December 8, 2025

The Navigable Waterway Network Nodes dataset is periodically updated by the United States Army Corp of Engineers (USACE) and is part of the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT)/Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) National Transportation Atlas Database (NTAD). The National Waterway Network (NWN) is a geographic database of navigable waterways and channels in and around the United States, for analytical studies of navigation performance, for compiling commodity flow statistics, and for mapping purposes. The NWN is comprised of a link database and a node database. Links are line strings, which consist of beginning and end points (nodes) with intermediate vertices (shape points). Links represent either actual shipping lanes (i.e., channels, Intracoastal Waterways, sea lanes, rivers) or serve as representative paths in open water (where no defined shipping paths exist). Nodes may represent physical entities such as river confluence's, ports/facilities, and intermodal terminals, USACE nodes, or may be inserted for analytical purposes (i.e., to facilitate routing). A data dictionary, or other source of attribute information, is accessible at https://doi.org/10.21949/1529054

Access & Use Information

Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: us-pd

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Dates

Metadata Created Date June 30, 2025
Metadata Updated Date December 8, 2025

Metadata Source

Harvested from NGDA data.json

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date June 30, 2025
Metadata Updated Date December 8, 2025
Publisher United States Army Corp of Engineers (USACE)
Maintainer
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Data First Published 2022-08-26T15:06:49.000Z
Data Last Modified 2025-10-09T18:04:18.349Z
Category geospatial
Public Access Level public
Bureau Code 010:25
Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
Harvest Object Id 6da8cb7c-3c10-420e-bff1-c4fe44a147dc
Harvest Source Id ec664cdf-15b6-4bb8-a524-640908ce4b82
Harvest Source Title NGDA data.json
Homepage URL https://ngda-transportation-geoplatform.hub.arcgis.com/datasets/usdot::navigable-waterway-network-nodes
License http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/
Metadata Type geospatial
Old Spatial -179.3121,-53.0000,179.1352,72.1997
Program Code 015:001
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash 41f821f9df6b14a970e974d26274bbc8e99bb9d1cd8787ca70728d4819562562
Source Schema Version 1.1
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