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Reefs

Posted in 10m-physical-vectors, Featured on Homepage on November 15th, 2009 by Nathaniel – Comments Off on Reefs
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Coral reefs and atolls.

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Admin 0 – Countries

Posted in 10m-cultural-vectors, Featured on Homepage on September 25th, 2009 by Nathaniel – Comments Off on Admin 0 – Countries
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There are 258 countries in the world. Greenland as separate from Denmark. Most users will want this file instead of sovereign states, though some users will want map units instead when needing to distinguish overseas regions of France.

Natural Earth shows de facto boundaries by default according to who controls the territory, versus de jure. Optional point-of-view (POV) variants are available for several dozen countries in the next section. 

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Rivers, Lake Centerlines

Posted in 110m-physical-vectors, Featured on Homepage on September 21st, 2009 by davidh – Comments Off on Rivers, Lake Centerlines
rivers_lake_centerlines_thumbSingle-line drainages including optional lake centerlines.

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Admin 0 – Details

Posted in 50m-cultural-vectors, Featured on Homepage on September 21st, 2009 by davidh – Comments Off on Admin 0 – Details
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There are 209 sovereign states in the world, though only 199 issue passports. Auxiliary themes include 298 cartographic map units and 360 subunits optimized for labeling edge cases, like the four constitute countries of England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland in the United Kingdom.

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Admin 1 – States, provinces

Posted in 50m-cultural-vectors, Featured on Homepage on September 21st, 2009 by davidh – Comments Off on Admin 1 – States, provinces
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Internal administrative divisions of countries

Natural Earth shows de facto boundaries by default according to who controls the territory, versus de jure. Adjusted to taste which boundaries are shown, hidden, and how they are rendered using the fclass_* properties to create POV worldviews.

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Populated Places

Posted in 50m-cultural-vectors, Featured on Homepage on September 21st, 2009 by davidh – Comments Off on Populated Places
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City and town points, from Tokyo to Wasilla, Cairo to Kandahar read more »

Natural Earth I with Shaded Relief and Water

Posted in 10m-natural-earth-1, Featured on Homepage on September 14th, 2009 by Nathaniel – Comments Off on Natural Earth I with Shaded Relief and Water
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With Shaded Relief and Water
Coloring based on land cover. Add your own rivers and lakes.

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Admin 0 – Breakaway, Disputed Areas

Posted in 10m-cultural-vectors, Featured on Homepage on September 14th, 2009 by Nathaniel – 1 Comment
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Kashmir to the Elemi Triangle, ~100 features

Natural Earth shows de facto boundaries by default according to who controls the territory, versus de jure. Adjusted to taste which boundaries are shown, hidden, and how they are rendered using the fclass_* properties paired with the POV worldview polygons above.

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Antarctic Ice Shelves

Posted in 10m-physical-vectors, Featured on Homepage on September 14th, 2009 by Nathaniel – Comments Off on Antarctic Ice Shelves
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Year-round ice shelves fringing Antarctica.

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Glaciated Areas

Posted in 10m-physical-vectors, Featured on Homepage on September 14th, 2009 by Nathaniel – Comments Off on Glaciated Areas
glaciated_thumbIncludes glaciers and recently de-glaciated areas.

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