Natural Earth 3.x

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1. kelso.it/x/nacis2013
22.     1,006,000 downloads by 482,000 visitors 760,000 not-unique visitors total Between Dec. 2009 and Oct. 2013 2,988,000 pageviews – 3:42’ visit duration
23. Includes combo downloads and single theme downloads
24. New in 2012 1. Economic geography: adds global roads, railroads, ports, airports, and time zones. 2. Remastered geometries: fixes topological errors at 1:10 to 1:1,000 scales in the basic coastline, ocean, land, admin-0, and admin-1 related themes in the 1:10m scaleset. Land, ocean, and minor islands all build topologically by scripting ingredients, as do the admin-0 and admin-1 cultural themes. 3. Introduce Gray Earth rasters. 4. New file name and field name schemas. 5. Address user submitted bug reports, ~25 since the 1.4 release, and earlier. 6. Moved to Github for the backend versioned file management and coordination. Includes scripts to package updates and auto-create derived themes. 7. Adopt semantic versioning. Know, by theme, the level of effort needed to update your maps when Natural Earth data updates are released.
27. 1. Comprehensive overhaul of admin-1 states and provinces. • UTF8 Shapefiles! • Adds ~1,000 new admin-1 from small and reformed countries • Concordance with Geonames.org and GeoPlanet WOE unique ids • More ISO, FIPS, and HASC codes 2. Natural Earth coded admin-0 at 1:200,000 adapted from State Department polygons, with disputed areas at quattroshapes.com 4. More cities at quattroshapes.com New in 2013
29. Natural Earth admin-1 v3
30. Natural Earth admin-1 v3 compared to 2 and1.4
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52. Ques&ons? kelso.it/x/nacis2013 Nathaniel Vaughn Kelso @kelsoscorner