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@Reemul.ita:

Check out this site for other digital elevation models and description about what raster cell size resolution is best for you:

http://blogs.esri.com/Support/blogs/mappingcenter/archive/2011/02/28/dem-resolution-output-map-pixel-density-and-largest-appropriate-map-scale.aspx

The Natural Earth rasters will only look good for Italy as a country or maybe a section of Italy. They do not scale up to show a metro area like Rome at detail.

All the images here and at the Shaded Relief site are in TIF and JPG formats. You can download them and preview the large size (not just look at the thumbnail images on the web pages).

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@Anthony: Map units are not included at this time with the default populated places attributes. It would be a good idea to include them in the future. For now, you can calculate this roughly by doing a “spatial join” between the populated places theme and the admin-0 map units theme. In the free QGIS this is “join attributes by location”. Just a reminder: French Guiana is a region of France equal to the other regions of France. The ISO calling that region a “country” is akin to calling Alaska and Hawaii separate countries than the mainland US.

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Should be fixed now.

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Can you provide example or link? I have no idea what you are trying to do or the use case.

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DCW is not available online anymore.

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We only provide world files, not country extracts. Files are relatively small, though, compared with DCW.

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@mheberger: Glad you’re enjoying Natural Earth! We will be rolling out a dot.update to reflect the independence of the Republic of South Sudan as reflects in the internationally recognized peace accord time table. Tnx for checking. Will also reflect an update to PNG and Panama for the country and sovereignty adm-0 themes.

Per: Somaliland, NE uses the defacto standard and this country passes that test. There are a couple others like that in here (including Taiwan).

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@MJS: Looks great, good job!

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@MJS: Powerful tool, thanks for sharing!

Please note that, while there are a few malaligned features like Gibraltar that need fixing, the reason Natural Earth features don’t perfectly follow a feature’s every twist and turn is deliberate to keep the dataset small. The US State Dept maintains another dataset at 1:250,000 scale that might suit your local mapping needs better: 1 of 12 here: http://geocommons.com/overlays/80233

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My list would be too long, including 28 countries and over 700 features:

ADM0 NAME COUNT

AFG Afghanistan 34

ARG Argentina 23

AUS Australia 16

BGD Bangladesh 6

BRA Brazil 27

CAN Canada 13

CHL Chile 15

CHN China 32

COD Congo (Kinshasa) 11

DEU Germany 16

EGY Egypt 25

ESP Spain 19

ETH Ethiopia 11

FRA France 23

IDN Indonesia 33

IND India 35

IRQ Iraq 18

ITA Italy 20

JPN Japan 48

KOR Korea, South 17

MEX Mexico 32

NGA Nigeria 38

PAK Pakistan 8

POL Poland 16

RUS Russia 90

SDN Sudan 27

USA United States of America 51

ZAF South Africa 9

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Jan,

While we don’t plan on doing this for all countries, we have considered for between 10 and 20 countries around the world that have large adm-1 (in population or geographic area). What countries would you add to the list?

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You’ll need to turn on the label function (differs per app, not familiar with JSF or geoserver) and use the Name column. If you want to fit the labels better, try the Abbrev column, if you care about details, use the appropriate sov, adm, geounit, geosubunit name columns at the begging of those files.

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@Carto: You’re welcome! Are you able to open up the raster in Windows using one of the included photo / image / picture apps? Even in a web browser? If it looks okay in one of those other apps, but looks like a black rectangle in ArcGIS 10, you might call Esri tech support. In 9.x it just loads and looks right. We don’t have 10.x installed yet at my office, sorry I’m not more help.

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@Sindizzy: Glad you’re enjoying Natural Earth. While we do not offer XML metadata, each theme has a data description page on this website. In the main download list, there is an “About | Issues | Version History »” link as part of each theme. Clicking on that would bring up a page like: https://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/10m-physical-vectors/10m-coastline/. You get what you pay for with Natural Earth. Metadata is a slave-level job (really) for someone to produce on top of basic features you’re already getting for free. The release notes shown on the blog each dot increase detail major changes between versions.

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Very cool, thanks for the update!

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@Kurt: There are no “content” changes in the raster files. But all raster file are now delivered inGeoTiff format where the projection and xy registration and cell size is baked into the tif file (most apps won’t need the world file sidecar now, and you won’t have to define the raster projection thru ArcToolbox anymore); any residual 1/2 pixel registration funk has been resolved, as well. If the old files were working for you, you won’t notice a difference in the new files.

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Please check Open Street Map (http://osm.org) for the road, rails, and populated places. It should work pretty well for you at that scale. Please check GADM from Berkeley for the administrative areas (http://www.gadm.org/).

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@Phil: Good idea on the “ne_” prefix!

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@Ed: Natural Earth data are provided in Esri Shapefile format vector files and GeoTIF format raster files. You will need an appropriate library (there are many out there with a quick Google) to read them into your app.

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@Edgar: The meta data can be found on the about page, https://www.naturalearthdata.com/about/ on the Features Page: https://www.naturalearthdata.com/features/, and the inaugural blog post: https://www.naturalearthdata.com/blog/miscellaneous/let-the-downloads-begin/

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