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Reefs

Posted in 10m-physical-vectors, Featured on Homepage on November 15th, 2009 by Nathaniel – Comments Off

Coral reefs and atolls.

Download reefs (174.12 KB) version 4.0.0

Admin 0 – Countries

Posted in 10m-cultural-vectors, Featured on Homepage on September 25th, 2009 by Nathaniel – Comments Off

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. Optional point-of-view (POV) variants are available for several dozen countries in the next section.

Download countries (4.7 MB) version 5.1.1

Download without boundary lakes (4.87 MB) version 5.1.1

Rivers, Lake Centerlines

Posted in 110m-physical-vectors, Featured on Homepage on September 21st, 2009 by davidh – Comments Off

Single-line drainages including optional lake centerlines.

Download rivers and lake centerlines (30.16 KB) version 5.0.0

Admin 0 – Details

Posted in 50m-cultural-vectors, Featured on Homepage on September 21st, 2009 by davidh – Comments Off

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.

Download tiny country points (47.18 KB) version 5.1.1

Download tiny county scale ranks (11.66 KB) version 5.1.0

Download sovereignty (758.17 KB) version 5.1.1

Download map units (797.74 KB) version 5.1.1

Download map subunits (816.84 KB) version 5.1.1

Download scale ranks (727.08 KB) version 5.1.0

Admin 1 – States, provinces

Posted in 50m-cultural-vectors, Featured on Homepage on September 21st, 2009 by davidh – Comments Off

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.

Download states and provinces (889.9 KB) version 5.1.1

Download without large lakes (899.64 KB) version 5.1.1

Download boundary lines (255.58 KB) version 5.1.0

Download scale ranks (432.77 KB) version 5.1.0

Populated Places

Posted in 50m-cultural-vectors, Featured on Homepage on September 21st, 2009 by davidh – Comments Off

City and town points, from Tokyo to Wasilla, Cairo to Kandahar

Download populated places (540.67 KB) version 5.1.2

Download simple (less columns) (130.49 KB) version 5.1.2

Natural Earth I with Shaded Relief and Water

Posted in 10m-natural-earth-1, Featured on Homepage on September 14th, 2009 by Nathaniel – Comments Off

With Shaded Relief and Water
Coloring based on land cover. Add your own rivers and lakes.

Download large size (308.35 MB) version 3.2.0

Download medium size (183.43 MB) version 3.2.0

Admin 0 – Breakaway, Disputed Areas

Posted in 10m-cultural-vectors, Featured on Homepage on September 14th, 2009 by Nathaniel – 1 Comment

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 paired with the POV worldview polygons above.

Download breakaway and disputed areas (210.17 KB) version 5.1.1

Download with scale ranks (169.51 KB) version 5.1.1

Download boundary lines (60.53 KB) version 5.1.0

Download Antarctic claims (64.3 KB) version 4.0.0

Download Antarctic claim limit lines (23.59 KB) version 5.0.0