Comments for Natural Earth

Comment on Urban Areas by Opensource and Javascript: Polymaps Used To Make PrettyMaps | The Online Blog

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 12:45:06 +0000

[...] semi-transparent white ground on top of which all the other layers are displayed. Urban areas from Natural Earth both as a standalone layer and combined with Flickr shapefiles for cities and neighbourhoods. Road, [...]

Comment on Railroads by Kira

Kira — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:23:10 +0000

It seems that this file is truncated; Unzip reports the error “End-of-central-directory signature not found.” +1

Comment on Natural Earth Version 1.1 release notes by Ziar Neamt

Ziar Neamt — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 22:24:55 +0000

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Comment on Railroads by Freek Dijkstra

Freek Dijkstra — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 04:55:03 +0000

Fixed; thanks!

Comment on Railroads by Freek Dijkstra

Freek Dijkstra — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 22:41:39 +0000

It seems that this file is truncated; Unzip reports the error “End-of-central-directory signature not found.”

Comment on Let the Downloads Begin! by Freek Dijkstra

Freek Dijkstra — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 22:29:44 +0000

You guys are so awesome I can hardly belief it. I’m a total GIS newbie, and this is just perfect. So much more complete than GSHHS, and so much more manageable than planet.osm. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Comment on Corrections by Natural Earth updated to version 1.2 « Kelso’s Corner

Natural Earth updated to version 1.2 « Kelso’s Corner — Tue, 25 May 2010 11:11:01 +0000

[...] Note: We are not committing to building out supplementary level of detail in the rest of the world (we’re not THAT crazy!), but will incorporate such data if you contribute it. As always, we edit these data files but you should too before you publish maps using them. Feed us back corrections. [...]

Comment on Admin 0 – Boundary Lines by Natural Earth 1.1 update + 1.2 preview « Kelso’s Corner

Natural Earth 1.1 update + 1.2 preview « Kelso’s Corner — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 11:00:32 +0000

[...] of Natural Earth are now available for ala cart downloading on the NaturalEarthData.com site. The 110m country boundary lines theme is now available in 1.1 (somehow it was left out of the original release). The combo [...]

Comment on Parks and Protected Lands by US National Parks added to Natural Earth, free GIS data shapefiles « Kelso’s Corner

Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:02:06 +0000

[...] note: Thanks to Tom's efforts, we continue to expand Natural Earth coverage this week by adding U.S. National Parks to the 1:10,000,000 scale set. Do you have a few hours to spare? We'd like to add National Forests, [...]

Comment on Parks and Protected Lands by Edgar Wayburn, 103, dies; No. 1 protector of U.S. wilderness (Wash Post) « Kelso’s Corner

Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:01:05 +0000

[...] note: We continue to expand Natural Earth coverage this week by adding U.S. National Parks. Do you have a few hours to spare? We'd like to add National Forests, large state parks, and [...]