Natural Earth cultural and physical data - version 1.4, August 2011

Natural Earth is a public domain map dataset available at 1:10m, 1:50m, and 1:110 million scales (1:10m version is stored in the EEA-SDI). Featuring tightly integrated vector and raster data, with Natural Earth one can make a variety of visually pleasing, well-crafted maps with cartography or GIS software. Natural Earth was built through a collaboration of many volunteers and is supported by NACIS (North American Cartographic Information Society), and is free for use in any type of project.

The carefully generalized linework maintains consistent, recognizable geographic shapes at 1:10m, 1:50m, and 1:110m scales. Natural Earth was built from the ground up in order for all data layers align precisely with one another. For example, where rivers and country borders are one and the same, the lines are coincident. Most data contain embedded feature names, which are ranked by relative importance. Other attributes facilitate faster map production, such as width attributes assigned to river segments for creating tapers.

Cultural vector data themes:

+ Countries

+ Disputed areas and breakaway regions

+ First order admin

+ Populated places

+ Urban polygons

+ Parks and protected areas

+ Pacific nation groupings

+ Water boundary indicators

Physical vector data themes:

+ Coastline

+ Land

+ Ocean

+ Minor islands

+ Reefs

+ Physical region features

+ Rivers and lake centerlines

+ Lakes

+ Glaciated areas

+ Antarctic ice shelves

+ Bathymetry

+ Geographic lines

+ Graticules

Date (Creation): 2011-08-19

Edition: 1.4

Citation identifier: ne_v_4326_10_mio_phys-cult_p_2011_rev1-4

Point of contact

No information provided.

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Administrative units
Hydrography

Keywords

Spatial scope

Global

GEMET

geography

EEA topics

Water
Buildings and construction
Seas and coasts

Use limitation: All versions of Natural Earth raster + vector map data found on this website are in the public domain. You may use the maps in any manner, including modifying the content and design, electronic dissemination, and offset printing. The primary authors, Tom Patterson and Nathaniel Vaughn Kelso, and all other contributors renounce all financial claim to the maps and invites you to use them for personal, educational, and commercial purposes. For further clarification pease see: https://www.naturalearthdata.com/about/terms-of-use/

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: no limitations to public access

Spatial representation type: Vector

Denominator: 10000000

Language of dataset: English

Character set: UTF8

Topic category

Boundaries
Imagery base maps earth cover

Begin date: 2011-01-01T00:00:00

End date: 2011-12-31T00:00:00

Coordinate reference system identifier: EPSG:4326

Distribution format

SHP ( )

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
EEA:FOLDERPATH	https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/webdav/datastore/public/ne_v_4326_10_mio_phys-cult_p_2011_rev1-4/
WWW:URL	https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/data/d54cd4e2-5c5a-489f-b34b-3f3fcd64eec6	Direct download
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link	https://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/	Natural Earth data downloads

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Conformance result

Title: Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services