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Data layer: Oregon Country polygon
A few caveats before
we get to the download links:
- One commonly sees 54° 40' north used as the
northern limit of Oregon Country, However, this was a
specifically American perspective, resulting from the 1824
treaty with Russia in which the U.S. agreed to make no
establishments on the coast north of 54° 40'. To the British
this line had no meaning. We felt it was more accurate to
set a northern limit to the Oregon Country based on that of
the Hudson Bay Company's New Caledonia district. As a
result, Oregon Country in this data set extends north to the
Nass and Finlay Rivers.
- This layer includes all of
the islands off the coast of Oregon Country. If you need a
polygon for the mainland only it should be a simple matter
to select the single mainland polygon and delete the rest.
- The projection of the layer
is geographic (lat/long), datum WGS84.
- The layer was made for
display at 1:8,000,000, and is really valid for display
only at scales smaller than 1:500,000. Zoom in further
than that (to say 1:100,000 or 1:50,000), and it will not
be accurate! (In Google Earth, a rough equivalent to
1:500,000 is an eye altitude of 150 km.)
- This data is realeased under
a Creative Commons 3.0 unported license
Download
shapefile, zipped (4 KB)
Download
KML file (29 KB)
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