Europe's River Polygon Shapefile Data

I am a Data ​Scientist ​specialised ​in GIS at ​MarineTraffic ​so access to ​data about ​Europe's ​river traffic ​is crucial to ​my work.  ​

Is there a ​public dataset ​that has the ​polygons of ​European rivers ​that have ​transportation ​activity (like ​ships)? ​

I am looking ​for very ​detailed data ​resolution (1:​50.000). If you know any institute collecting these data sets, please let me know. 

Taxonomy

• GIS & Remote Sensing Technology
• GIS
• River Studies
• GIS for network
• GIS & Remote Sensing

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1. Dear Christos, some of the organisation sharing data on rivers are - 

   • European river catchments  - The purpose of the European river catchments (ERC) is to provide a homogeneous European catchments dataset at scale 1:1 million that can be used together with the digital topographic data of EuroGlobalMap http://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/data/european-river-catchments-1

   • ESRI - Europe Major Rivers - Europe Major Rivers is a polygon theme representing the major rivers of Europe. Attribute information includes the name, type, country, rank and area of the river. This dataset is a part of the 2008 ESRI Data & Maps collection https://earthworks.stanford.edu/catalog/columbia-columbia-esri-2008-europe-mjrrivers

   • Natural Earth - Rivers + lake centerlines -  Single-line drainages including optional lake centerlines and supplementary data for North America and Europe. http://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/10m-physical-vectors/10m-rivers-lake-centerlines/

   Hope this is useful for your work. Best luck!

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   1. THX Vishakha! But, the first link are polygons with the rivers catchments, not river area, the third are line geometry not polygon.

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      1. Hey Christos, I am checking with Marine universities and organistaions for find more suitable data sets.  I will share asa I get some useful sources. 

2. Direct link to maps is:

   http://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/data/waterbase-rivers-10

   Downloadable GIS data here.

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   1. Thx, but this link does not have spatial data, only tabular.

3. you can check with the website for Shipping ministry for the data for the river meandering data, cross sectional data, water depth, velocity data etc. you can get from ministry of shipping, Eroupe 

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   1. Could you provide me a link, please?

4. I would check out the world maritime university

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   1. Could you provide me a link, please?

5. You may try the following websites:

   www.ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/transport

   www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps

   Hope these help.

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   1. Sorry I couldn't find what I am asking.