I’m proud to announce the immediate availability of Natural Earth version 4! After four months active development and more than 50 contributors Natural Earth v4 is now generally available on NaturalEarthData.com and Github. See the CHANGELOG for full details. Here’s a quick summary: The v4 series introduces significant changes to admin-0 country shapes to account for the disputed area […]
Posted in Miscellaneous on October 30th, 2017 by Nathaniel – 3 Comments
After over a year of development, we’re proud to announce the immediate availability of Natural Earth 2.0.0! The 2.0.0 release focuses on 7 major areas: 1. Economic geography, 2. Remastered geometries, 3. Introduce Gray Earth rasters, 4. New file name and field name schemas., 5. Address user submitted bug reports, 6. Moved to Github for file management and build scripts, and 7. Adopt semantic versioning. Many thanks to all the contributors!
Posted in Miscellaneous on November 8th, 2012 by Nathaniel – 4 Comments
Over 65 files have changed in version 1.4 of Natural Earth. The most significant edits reflect the July 2011 independence of South Sudan. Panama and Papua New Guinea are returned to separate countries. Admin-1 changes, rivers, populated places, and more. Thanks to all who submitted correction requests! — Nathaniel and Tom.
Posted in Blog Post, Miscellaneous on August 19th, 2011 by Nathaniel – 7 Comments
When Natural Earth relaunched in December 2009 with updated raster and new vector data our aim was two fold: First, to give cartographers an off-the-shelf solution for creating small-scale world, regional and country maps from scratch. Second, we included a wealth of features both large and small in hopes of improving the overall geographic literacy of map readers. Since then, we’ve taken Natural Earth on an around-the-world road show and January 2011 saw our 150,000th direct download and 500,000th pageview. We even made it into Wikipedia, were featured in PrettyMaps, and power some of the goodness behind Google Fusion Tables. With today’s 1.3 release, we add a couple newly independent countries, better delineate the world’s states and provinces, and make a whole host of corrections and additions to the original dataset, detailed below. Please continue to use these fine map ingredients to make great web and print geo mashups. Bon appetit.
Nathaniel Vaughn Kelso
Tom Patterson
Thanks to over 50 contributors for making 1.1 happen! There are hundreds of changes and additions in the new version, including National Parks for the US. Do you have a few hours to help? Please check out the TODO listings and email nathaniel@naturalearthdata.com.
Posted in Miscellaneous on March 1st, 2010 by Nathaniel – 2 Comments
The 10m and 50m raster data on the NE download pages are updated and now contain corrected TFW files. The 1.0.0 files were a tiny bit off in their extents, the new 1.0.1 files are now perfectly within the ±180, ±90 bounding box.
Posted in Miscellaneous on January 9th, 2010 by Nathaniel – 2 Comments
Tom and I are pleased to announce the immediate availability of Natural Earth, free vector and raster map data at 1:10m, 1:50m, and 1:110m scales. This is a NACIS and MapGiving co-branded product with assistance from the University of Wisconsin-Madison cartography lab, Florida State University, and others. Download the data at naturalearthdata.com/downloads.
Posted in Miscellaneous on December 2nd, 2009 by Nathaniel – 4 Comments
Islands that are 2 sq. km or less in size.
Posted in 10m-physical-vectors on November 15th, 2009 by Nathaniel – Comments Off on Minor Islands
Single-line drainages including optional lake centerlines.
Posted in 110m-physical-vectors, Featured on Homepage on September 21st, 2009 by davidh – Comments Off on Rivers, Lake Centerlines
Single-line drainages including optional lake centerlines.
Posted in 50m-physical-vectors on September 21st, 2009 by davidh – Comments Off on Rivers, Lake Centerlines
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