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Full Natural Earth Data Now Available – Free Vector And Raster Data For The Entire World



Tom Patterson’s raster Natural Earth data has been available for a while, and it’s now been joined by the Natural Earth vector datasets, a joint project with Nathaniel Kelso and others; there’s now also a new home for both datasets at the Natural Earth website. Vector data is available at 1:10 million, 1:50 million and 1:110 million scales. Vector data features include:

  • Country boundaries
  • Administrative boundaries
  • Populated places
  • Coastlines
  • Lakes and rivers
  • Glaciated areas
  • Bathymetry
  • Latitude/longitude graticules

… and much more; see the full feature set description for details. Vector data is in standard shapefile format, geographic/WGS84 projection. The authors solicit both additions and corrections to the dataset. It’s good to have a high-quality free dataset of this type available in one place; while you can find comparable or even higher-quality data on the Web, it usually involves quite a bit of searching.


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3 Responses to “Full Natural Earth Data Now Available – Free Vector And Raster Data For The Entire World”


  1. 1 e.

    I think you mean Nathaniel Kelso, not Tom Kelso.

  2. 2 Leszek Pawlowicz

    My bad – fixed.

  3. 3 Kurt

    “while you can find comparable or even higher-quality data on the Web, it usually involves quite a bit of searching”

    Could you give us please some examples (with urls)
    thanks

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