50m-cultural-vectors

Admin 0 – Countries

Posted in 50m-cultural-vectors on September 21st, 2009 by davidh – Comments Off on Admin 0 – Countries
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There are 258 countries in the world. Greenland as separate from Denmark. Most users will want this file instead of sovereign states, though some users will want map units instead when needing to distinguish overseas regions of France.

Natural Earth shows de facto boundaries by default according to who controls the territory, versus de jure.

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Admin 0 – Details

Posted in 50m-cultural-vectors, Featured on Homepage on September 21st, 2009 by davidh – Comments Off on Admin 0 – Details
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There are 209 sovereign states in the world, though only 199 issue passports. Auxiliary themes include 298 cartographic map units and 360 subunits optimized for labeling edge cases, like the four constitute countries of England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland in the United Kingdom.

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Admin 0 – Boundary Lines

Posted in 50m-cultural-vectors on September 21st, 2009 by davidh – Comments Off on Admin 0 – Boundary Lines
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Country boundaries on land and offshore

Natural Earth shows de facto boundaries by default according to who controls the territory, versus de jure. Adjusted to taste which boundaries are shown, hidden, and how they are rendered using the fclass_* properties to create POV worldviews.

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Admin 0 – Breakaway, disputed areas

Posted in 50m-cultural-vectors on September 21st, 2009 by davidh – Comments Off on Admin 0 – Breakaway, disputed areas
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Kashmir to the Elemi Triangle, ~100 features

Natural Earth shows de facto boundaries by default according to who controls the territory, versus de jure. Adjusted to taste which boundaries are shown, hidden, and how they are rendered using the fclass_* properties to create POV worldviews.

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Admin 1 – States, provinces

Posted in 50m-cultural-vectors, Featured on Homepage on September 21st, 2009 by davidh – Comments Off on Admin 1 – States, provinces
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Internal administrative divisions of countries

Natural Earth shows de facto boundaries by default according to who controls the territory, versus de jure. Adjusted to taste which boundaries are shown, hidden, and how they are rendered using the fclass_* properties to create POV worldviews.

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Populated Places

Posted in 50m-cultural-vectors, Featured on Homepage on September 21st, 2009 by davidh – Comments Off on Populated Places
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City and town points, from Tokyo to Wasilla, Cairo to Kandahar read more »

Airports

Posted in 50m-cultural-vectors on September 21st, 2009 by Nathaniel – Comments Off on Airports
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Transportation 

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Ports

Posted in 50m-cultural-vectors on September 21st, 2009 by Nathaniel – Comments Off on Ports
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Transportation

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Urban Areas

Posted in 50m-cultural-vectors on September 21st, 2009 by davidh – Comments Off on Urban Areas
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Area of dense human habitation.

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