Geofabrik makes available Open Street Map (OSM) data available for download in both the original OSM format and also in shapefile format. For the latter, a short set of features is available in layers: “road and railway network, forests, water areas, some points of interest”. While the primary coverage area is Europe, there are some datafiles for Asia as well. The data files are updated daily on the server to reflect the most recent changes in the OSM dataset.
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