Natural Earth » ext js http://www.naturalearthdata.com Free vector and raster map data at 1:10m, 1:50m, and 1:110m scales Fri, 28 Oct 2011 18:59:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Natural Earth Browser from Thematic Mapping http://www.naturalearthdata.com/blog/miscellaneous/natural-earth-browser-from-thematic-mapping/ http://www.naturalearthdata.com/blog/miscellaneous/natural-earth-browser-from-thematic-mapping/#comments Mon, 04 Jan 2010 14:37:15 +0000 Nathaniel http://www.naturalearthdata.com/?p=2596 [Editor's note: Bjorn over at his Thematic Mapping Blog has done up a Natural Earth tile set using open source tools. How have you been using Natural Earth?]

Excerpted from Thematic Mapping Blog.

My holiday project, apart from skiing, was to play with the new Natural Earth dataset. By combing raster and vector data you can make a variety of visually pleasing maps. You can use my Natural Earth Browser to study the great linework of Natural Earth.
Natural Earth Browser was created with a variety of open source tools. Map tiles from raster data was created with MapTiler and optimised with pngng. Map tiles from vector data was styled with Mapnik and pre-genereated with TileCache. The map interface is based on OpenLayers, Ext JS and GeoExt.
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