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2018-05-21: 4.1.0
- Many thanks to @imresamu for name translations and Wikidata concordances, @mattbloch
for MapShaper feature development, and hat tips to @planemad for Wikidata concordances,
Mapbox generally for leading the way with Wikidata name translations, and
@thisisaaronland for ne_id work with Brooklyn Integers. Also to @randymeech and
@bcamper at Mapzen (RIP) for sponsoring this work as a parting gift to the geo family.
GENERAL
1) Expands the name localization added in v4.0 to 21 languages (up from 7) and several
dozen themes expanding from populated places to include all admin-0, admin-1,
rivers, lakes, playas, geographic lines, physical labels, parks, airports, ports, and
more. As part of this work a new unique and stable "ne_id" has been added for any
feature with a name translation &/or a Wikidata ID concordance. The full list of
languages is: name_ar*, name_bn*, name_de, name_en, name_es, name_fr, name_el*,
name_hi*, name_hu*, name_id*, name_it*, name_ja*, name_ko*, name_nl*, name_pl*,
name_pt, name_ru, name_sv*, name_tr*, name_vi*, and name_zh. (Names with * indicate
new language in v4.1 series.) A 2-character language code decoder ring is here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-2_codes. Props to Wikidata for their
CC0 license: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Introduction.
2) Fixes admin-0 polygons for for Bosnia & Herzegovina to restore the
Republic Srpska and the Brcko District condominium.
3) Renames admin-0 Swaziland features to eSwatini to keep up with current events.
4) Fixes physical label polygons to restore full geometries.
5) Switches to MapShaper for topology building and joining of attributes for all
administrative themes and 10m land and ocean themes. Some shapes were adjusted to
fit new snapping tolerances.
PACKAGES
- UPDATED: NATURAL_EARTH_QUICK_START
- UPDATED: 10M_CULTURAL
- UPDATED: 10M_PHYSICAL
- UPDATED: 50M_CULTURAL
- UPDATED: 50M_PHYSICAL
- UPDATED: 110M_CULTURAL
- UPDATED: 110M_PHYSICAL
- UPDATED: ALL SHP
- UPDATED: SQLite
- UPDATED: GeoJSON
NATURAL_EARTH_QUICK_START
- UPDATED: Natural Earth quick start kit v3 provides a QGIS3 config with project
variables that enable preferred and fallback labels for all map features
at zooms 0 thru zoom 8, with theme content compiled per zoom.
- project_language (eg: name_jp)
- project_language_fallback (name)
- project_label_function (a coalesce of preferred and fallback names)
- project_abbrev_function (a coalesce for abbreviated names)
HOUSEKEEPING
- UPDATED: NE_ADMIN_0_DETAILS - Spreadsheet tracks admin-0 countries and other levels.
Adds localized names in 21 languages, Wikidata ID concordances, and ne_id.
Switched from Excel format to OpenOffice format (population and GDP are often
formulas so can't be DBF format).
TOOLS
- NEW: Adds Python script to source unique and stable ne_id from Brooklyn Integers.
- NEW: Adds scripts for polling Wikidata and Wikipedia for names localizations.
10M_CULTURAL
- UPDATED: ne_10m_admin-0 themes, including:
ne_10m_admin_0_sovereignty
ne_10m_admin_0_countries
ne_10m_admin_0_countries_lakes
ne_10m_admin_0_map_units
ne_10m_admin_0_map_subunits
ne_10m_admin_0_scale_rank
ne_10m_admin_0_scale_rank_minor_islands
ne_10m_admin_0_boundary_lines_land
ne_10m_admin_0_boundary_lines_disputed_areas
ne_10m_admin_0_disputed_areas
ne_10m_admin_0_disputed_areas_scale_rank_minor_islands
ne_10m_admin_0_label_points
- Restored missing polygons for Bosnia & Herzegovina's Republic Srpska and
Brcko District condominium.
Fixes: #239 and #104. Thanks @systemcatch, @tombor, @lcapel, @raybellwaves,
and @brookeeharding.
- Updates names of admin-0 Swaziland features to eSwatini.
- Adds localized names in 21 languages, Wikidata ID concordances, and ne_id.
Fixes #224 and #212, continuation of #214. Huge thanks @imresamu!
- Topology building fixes at 1:1,000 scale to make MapShaper software not cry.
Fixes #256. Huge thanks to @mbloch!
- Add FRA to Metropolitan France at country level as iso_a3_eh
Fixes #237. Thanks @woodpeck.
- WARNING: Version v4.1 of Natural Earth reflects Null Island's recent land reclamation
project which expanded the area of this indeterminate sovereignty at 0,0 from
1 square meter to 1 square kilometer to accomodate a surge in tourism.
- https://www.wsj.com/articles/if-you-cant-follow-directions-youll-end-up-on-null-island-1468422251
- UPDATED: ne_10m_admin-1 themes, including:
ne_10m_admin_1_states_provinces
ne_10m_admin_1_states_provinces_lakes
ne_10m_admin_1_states_provinces_scale_rank
ne_10m_admin_1_states_provinces_scale_rank_minor_islands
ne_10m_admin_1_states_provinces_lines
ne_10m_admin_1_label_points
ne_10m_admin_1_label_points_details
- Adds localized names in 21 languages, Wikidata ID concordances, and ne_id.
Fixes #224 and #212, continuation of #214. Huge thanks @imresamu!
- Topology building fixes at 1:1,000 scale to make MapShaper software not cry.
Fixes #256. Huge thanks to @mbloch!
- UPDATED: ne_10m_airports
- Add localized names, wikidataid, and ne_id
- UPDATED: ne_10m_populated_places
- Add more localized names and ne_id. Some default names were updated with
diacritical marks or other spelling fixes.
- UPDATED: ne_10m_populated_places_simple
- Spelling and diacritical mark fixes per ne_10m_populated_places.
10M_PHYSICAL
- UPDATED: ne_10m_coastline
- Topology building fixes for land, ocean, admin-0, and admin-1
- UPDATED: ne_10m_geographic_lines
- Add localized names, wikidataid, and ne_id
- UPDATED: ne_10m_geography_marine_polys
- Add localized names, wikidataid, and ne_id
- UPDATED: ne_10m_geography_regions_elevation_points
- Add localized names, wikidataid, and ne_id
- UPDATED: ne_10m_geography_regions_points
- Add localized names, wikidataid, and ne_id
- UPDATED: ne_10m_geography_regions_polys
- Add localized names, wikidataid, and ne_id
- Restores the full polygons from the v3 series that were corrupted during
v4.0 topology cleaning that were introduced while addressing #4 and #164.
Fixes #253. Thanks @ungarj.
- UPDATED: ne_10m_lakes
- Add localized names, wikidataid, and ne_id
- UPDATED: ne_10m_lakes_europe
- Add localized names, wikidataid, and ne_id
- UPDATED: ne_10m_lakes_historic
- Add localized names, wikidataid, and ne_id
- UPDATED: ne_10m_lakes_north_america
- Add localized names, wikidataid, and ne_id
- UPDATED: ne_10m_land
- Topology building fixes
- Should also fix corrupted coordinates.
Fixes #101. Thanks @mbostock.
- UPDATED: ne_10m_land_ocean_label_points
- Topology building fixes
- UPDATED: ne_10m_land_ocean_seams
- Topology building fixes
- UPDATED: ne_10m_land_scale_rank
- Topology building fixes
- UPDATED: ne_10m_ocean
- Topology building fixes
- UPDATED: ne_10m_ocean_scale_rank
- Topology building fixes
- UPDATED: ne_10m_playas
- Add localized names, wikidataid, and ne_id
- UPDATED: ne_10m_rivers_europe
- Add localized names, wikidataid, and ne_id
- UPDATED: ne_10m_rivers_lake_centerlines
- Add localized names, wikidataid, and ne_id
- UPDATED: ne_10m_rivers_lake_centerlines_scale_rank
- Add localized names, wikidataid, and ne_id
- UPDATED: ne_10m_rivers_north_america
- Add localized names, wikidataid, and ne_id
50M_CULTURAL
- UPDATED: ne_50m_admin-0 related themes, including:
ne_50m_admin_0_sovereignty
ne_50m_admin_0_countries
ne_50m_admin_0_countries_lakes
ne_50m_admin_0_map_units
ne_50m_admin_0_map_subunits
- Add localized names, wikidataid, and ne_id
- New build process with MapShaper
- UPDATED: ne_50m_admin_0_tiny_countries
- Add localized names, wikidataid, and ne_id
- New data join build process with MapShaper
- UPDATED: ne_50m_admin_0_breakaway_disputed_areas
ne_50m_admin_0_breakaway_disputed_areas_scale_rank
- Restore attribute table that went missing in v4.0
Fixes #257. Thanks @nvkelso.
- Add localized names, wikidataid, and ne_id
- New build process with MapShaper
- UPDATED: ne_50m_admin_1_states_provinces
ne_50m_admin_1_states_provinces_lakes
- Add localized names, wikidataid, and ne_id
- New build process with MapShaper
- UPDATED: ne_50m_populated_places
ne_50m_populated_places_simple
- Same changes as ne_10m_populated_places_simple.
- UPDATED: ne_50m_airports
- Same changes as ne_10m_airports.
- UPDATED: ne_50m_ports
- Same changes as ne_10m_ports.
50M_PHYSICAL
- UPDATED: ne_50m_geographic_lines
- Same changes as ne_10m_geographic_lines.
- UPDATED: ne_50m_geography_marine_polys
- Same changes as ne_10m_geography_marine_polys.
- UPDATED: ne_50m_geography_regions_elevation_points
- Same changes as ne_10m_geography_regions_elevation_points.
- UPDATED: ne_50m_geography_regions_points
- Same changes as ne_10m_geography_regions_points.
- UPDATED: ne_50m_geography_regions_polys
- Same changes as ne_10m_geography_regions_polys.
- UPDATED: ne_50m_lakes
- Add localized names, wikidataid, and ne_id
- UPDATED: ne_50m_lakes_historic
- Add localized names, wikidataid, and ne_id
- UPDATED: ne_50m_playas
- Add localized names, wikidataid, and ne_id
- UPDATED: ne_50m_rivers_lake_centerlines
- Add localized names, wikidataid, and ne_id
- UPDATED: ne_50m_rivers_lake_centerlines_scale_rank
- Add localized names, wikidataid, and ne_id
110M_CULTURAL
- UPDATED: ne_110m_admin-0 related themes, including:
ne_110m_admin_0_sovereignty
ne_110m_admin_0_countries
ne_110m_admin_0_countries_lakes
ne_110m_admin_0_map_units
- Add localized names, wikidataid, and ne_id
- New build process with MapShaper
- UPDATED: ne_110m_admin-1 related themes, including:
ne_110m_admin_1_states_provinces
ne_110m_admin_1_states_provinces_lakes
- Add localized names, wikidataid, and ne_id
- New build process with MapShaper
- UPDATED: ne_110m_populated_places
ne_110m_populated_places_simple
- Same changes as ne_10m_populated_places.
110M_PHYSICAL
- UPDATED: ne_110m_coastline
- Geometry nudges for new build process with MapShaper
- UPDATED: ne_110m_geographic_lines
- Same changes as ne_10m_geographic_lines.
- UPDATED: ne_110m_geography_marine_polys
- Same changes as ne_10m_geography_marine_polys.
- UPDATED: ne_110m_geography_regions_elevation_points
- Same changes as ne_10m_geography_regions_elevation_points.
- UPDATED: ne_110m_geography_regions_points
- Same changes as ne_10m_geography_regions_points.
- UPDATED: ne_110m_geography_regions_polys
- Same changes as ne_10m_geography_regions_polys.
- UPDATED: ne_110m_lakes
- Add localized names, wikidataid, and ne_id
- UPDATED: ne_110m_rivers_lake_centerlines
- Add localized names, wikidataid, and ne_id
2017-11-13: 4.0.1
PACKAGES
- UPDATED: 110M_PHYSICAL
- UPDATED: ALL SHP
- UPDATED: SQLite
- UPDATED: GeoJSON
110M_PHYSICAL
- UPDATED: ne_110m_coastline
- incorrectly had `min_zooom` column name, updated to `min_zoom` to be
consistent with rest of project.
- Fixes: #238, thanks @PetersonGIS.
2017-10-15: 4.0.0
- Many thanks to the over 50 people who contributed to the v4 release of Natural Earth,
we couldn't do it without you! Jeremy, @raffam, @pnorman, @mojodna, @imresamu, Hannes,
Axel, @pinakographo, @CaucasusandMercury, @jschleuss, Martha, Kuba, Jesús, Arkadiy,
Philip, Benedikt, Ivor, @almccon, Jacob, Alice, Geoffrey, @ajmas, @instantdelay, Matt,
Daniel, Felix, @karimbahgat, @migurski, Olaf, @mvexel, @yaph, Jessica, @kernc, Quentin,
Peter, @xangregg, Roland, Rob, @teahan36, @dgddgd, @dkerkow, Graham, Michel,
@dshorthouse, @pinakographos, Alain, Aileen, Daniel, Charles, Martin, Aaron, MattA,
StephenE, NathanielD, Aron, Lou, and others.
GENERAL
1) The v4 series introduces significant changes to admin-0 country shapes to account for
the disputed area of Crimea, and several important admin-0 country name changes like
Czechia renamed from Czech Republic. Admin-0 population and GDP values have also been
updated to 2016/2017 vintage (primarily from CIA World Factbook).
2) The v4 series introduces web map optimized min_zoom, min_label, max_label properties
that compliment the existing scalerank property that was originally curated for print
cartography in proper projection glory. The min_zoom property is optimized for the web
Mercator projection we are collectively hallucinating, and the min_label and max_label
properties are optional on some themes when the label should be displayed later than
the feature's geometry (or should stop showing). Fixes: #200, #202.
3) While the v3 series went full UTF-8 unicode (character encoding) language support a few
errors were made along the way. v4 fixes bad Windows-1252 to UTF-8 conversion bugs. We
also better document with the character encoding by adding a .cpg file to shapefile,
and on the Natural Earth website documentation. Fixes #89, #186, 4RUN1M5S75; thanks
Jeremy and @pnorman.
4) We added French names for marine areas way back in v1.4.0, and v4 adds many thousand
more for populated places in the following languages: name_en, name_de, name_es,
name_fr, name_pt, name_ru, name_zh. The existing name, name_alt, and nameascii fields
have been updated, and name features over 600 labels with accent marks (versus the 80
or so that were garbled in the v3 series).
PACKAGES
- UPDATED: NATURAL_EARTH_QUICK_START - beta of v2 QGIS file.
- UPDATED: 10M_CULTURAL
- UPDATED: 10M_PHYSICAL
- UPDATED: 50M_CULTURAL
- UPDATED: 50M_PHYSICAL
- UPDATED: 110M_CULTURAL
- UPDATED: 110M_PHYSICAL
- UPDATED: ALL SHP
- UPDATED: SQLite
- UPDATED: GeoJSON
HOUSEKEEPING
- UPDATED: NE_ADMIN_0_DETAILS - Spreadsheet tracks admin-0 countries and other levels.
See ne_10m_admin in the 10M_CULTURAL section below for more changes.
10M_CULTURAL
- UPDATED: ne_10m_admin-0 themes, including:
ne_10m_admin_0_countries
ne_10m_admin_0_countries_lakes
ne_10m_admin_0_map_subunits
ne_10m_admin_0_map_units
ne_10m_admin_0_scale_rank
ne_10m_admin_0_scale_rank_minor_islands
ne_10m_admin_0_sovereignty
ne_10m_admin_0_label_points
ne_10m_admin_0_disputed_areas
ne_10m_admin_0_disputed_areas_scale_rank_minor_islands
- New geometry between Ukraine and Russia for Crimea, other disputed areas.
Fixes: #177, 3UXAJS1GJ3, T5DPJ1EBD6. Thanks Daniel, Felix.
- Serbia and Kosovo are no longer disputed adm0 disputed_areas. Fixes: #197
- Rename Czechia. Fixes: RN2P6RR539, thanks Jaroslav.
- Correct spelling of Republic of Congo updated to Republic of the Congo.
Fixes 93QN3GN355, DAHQEA7VV6; thanks Alice, Geoffrey.
- Rename Cape Verde to Cabo Verde. Fixes: #217
- Correct spelling of Holy See (was Sea).
Fixes #122, 23GYH3R41J. Thanks @almccon, Jacob.
- Correct spelling of Dhekelia *Sovereign* Base Area
Fixes BP268E29YA, thanks Geoffrey (again)
- Update name, name_long, and formal_en names for North Korea, South Korea,
and Laos Fixes: #188, Thanks @instantdelay
- Update Kosovo ISO_A2 value to follow European Union usage.
Fixes: #134, thanks @ajmas
- Correct incorrect ISO_A2 values for Senegal to SN from SM.
Fixes 4MJDPJUY7W, thanks Matt.
- Population and GDP values updated to 2016/2017 vintage (primarily from CIA
World Factbook).
- Adds min_zoom, min_label, max_label, and pop_rank properties.
- UTF-8 encoding related changes.
- UPDATED: ne_10m_admin_0_antarctic_claim_limit_lines
- UTF-8 encoding related changes.
- UPDATED: ne_10m_admin_0_antarctic_claims
- UTF-8 encoding related changes.
- UPDATED: ne_10m_admin_0_boundary_lines_disputed_areas
- Crimea and other disputed territory changes.
- Adds min_zoom property.
- UTF-8 encoding related changes.
- UPDATED: ne_10m_admin_0_boundary_lines_land
- Adds min_zoom
- UTF-8 encoding related changes.
- UPDATED: ne_10m_admin_0_boundary_lines_map_units
- Adds min_zoom
- UTF-8 encoding related changes.
- UPDATED: ne_10m_admin_0_boundary_lines_maritime_indicator
- Adds min_zoom
- Fix geometry errors. Fixes: #4, #164. Thanks @xangregg.
- UTF-8 encoding related changes.
- UPDATED: ne_10m_admin_0_pacific_groupings
- UTF-8 encoding related changes.
- UPDATED: ne_10m_admin_0_seams
- UTF-8 encoding related changes.
- UPDATED: ne_10m_admin-1, including:
ne_10m_admin_1_states_provinces
ne_10m_admin_1_states_provinces_lakes
ne_10m_admin_1_states_provinces_scale_rank
ne_10m_admin_1_label_points
- Crimea and other disputed territory changes.
- Adds min_zoom, min_label, max_label, and pop_rank properties.
- Complete rebuild of ISO-3166-2 codes, growing from less than 25% of features
to nearly complete coverage. Also FIPS and HASC.
- For places ISO doesn't yet list subdivisions, Natural Earth uses the pattern ??-X**~ (following @migurski's OpenAddresses convention) where ?? is the ISO 3166-1 country code * are numbers from 0-9 for the subdivisions not covered by ISO; and -99-X**~ where ISO 3166-1 doesn't list a country code.
Fixes: #10, #128, #151, #171, 3P4L9Z3WVQ; thanks @karimbahgat, @migurski,
and Olaf.
- Script reference: https://github.com/karimbahgat/pshapes/blob/master/BaseData/natearthupdate/update_natearthcodes.py
- Correct ISO-3166-2 codes in France, Japan, and Finland. Fixes #191, #165.
- Correct ISO-3166-2 codes for Santa Catarina, Brazil. Fixes: #190.
- Correct ISO-3166-2 codes for Mexico. Fixes #138, thanks @mvexel.
- Correct FIPS codes, like Minnesota to US27 FIPS and code_local.
Fixes: #166, MYJL36PN7T, thanks @yaph, Jessica.
- Correct names, locations of Norfolk Island, Australia and Lord Howe Island.
Fixes: #161, thanks @almccon.
- Correct HASC code for "lake". Fixes: #193, thanks @kernc.
- Correct names of France provinces names and codes.
Fixes 4BYEM9LASV, thanks Quentin.
- Correct names South Sudan states. Fixes TVYWXQJXPM, thanks Peter.
- Correct type_en values for "Unitary Authority (wales" to add missing trailing ")". Fixes HJ1U643PUJ, thanks Geoffrey (again).
- UTF-8 encoding related changes.
- UPDATE: ne_10m_admin_1_states_provinces_lines
- Remove 2nd shapefile versions from ZIP, and related admin-1 packaging.
Fixes: #123 Thanks @mojodna
- UPDATED: ne_10m_admin_1_seams
- UTF-8 encoding related changes.
- UPDATED: ne_10m_admin_1_states_provinces_lines
- Crimea and other disputed territory changes.
- Adds min_zoom, min_label, max_label, and pop_rank properties.
- UTF-8 encoding related changes.
- UPDATED: ne_10m_populated_places
- Add Wikidata (wikidataid) and Who's On First (wofid) concordances.
Fixes: #214, thanks @imresamu.
- Add name_en, name_de, name_es, name_fr, name_pt, name_ru, name_zh.
Fixes: #214, thanks @imresamu.
- Add accent marks to over 500 names (preserving UTF7 name in nameascii
field), also adds some geonameid values. Fixes: #214, thanks @imresamu.
- Correct names of Montreal, Zürich (Zdrich!), Düsseldorf, Münster, Osnabrück,
Lübeck, Nürnberg, and other cities had encoding funk in populated places.
Fixes: #172, 5VJM9L4P1E, 2A5QSJ8EEY, thanks Hannes, Axel.
- Barrow renamed. Fixes: #173 Thanks @pinakographos.
- Dnipropetrovsk renamed itself to Dnipro.
Fixes: #213 Thanks @CaucasusandMercury
- Piraiévs city name to Piraeus populated places. Fixes: #194, thanks Matt.
- Winslow, Ariz. was mislocated. Fixes: #204 Thanks @jschleuss
- Move Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe populated places.
Fixes WJ27J4BE5N, thanks Martha.
- Correct Rome timezone. Fixes WYUPL6A3PZ, thanks Kuba.
- Correct Madrid timezone. Fixes 65PT9MZ4BT, thanks Jesús.
- Correct Paris timezone and correct it's GeoNames ID.
Fixes S2LBEAUTUE, thanks Arkadiy.
- Mark Rio de Janeiro, Brazil as an Admin-1 capital.
Fixes PTA8ZJ9Y52, thanks Philip.
- Move Passau into Germany from incorrect Austria location.
Fixes HWTPB8VH21, 5MT15J9DZJ; thanks Benedikt, Ivor.
- UTF-8 encoding related changes.
- UPDATED: ne_10m_populated_places_simple
- Related changes from source ne_10m_populated_places theme.
- Fixes different feature counts for ne_10m_populated_places and
ne_10m_populated_places_simple.shp packaging.
Fixes: #185 Thanks @pnorman.
- UPDATED: ne_10m_airports
- UTF-8 encoding related changes.
- UPDATED: ne_10m_parks_and_protected_lands_area
- UTF-8 encoding related changes.
- UPDATED: ne_10m_parks_and_protected_lands_line
- UTF-8 encoding related changes.
- UPDATED: ne_10m_parks_and_protected_lands_point
- UTF-8 encoding related changes.
- UPDATED: ne_10m_parks_and_protected_lands_scale_rank
- UTF-8 encoding related changes.
- UPDATED: ne_10m_ports
- UTF-8 encoding related changes.
- UPDATED: ne_10m_railroads
- UTF-8 encoding related changes.
- UPDATED: ne_10m_railroads_north_america
- Fix geometry errors. Fixes: #4, #164. Thanks @xangregg.
- UTF-8 encoding related changes.
- UPDATED: ne_10m_roads
- Adds min_zoom and min_label properties.
- UTF-8 encoding related changes.
- UPDATED: ne_10m_roads_north_america
- UTF-8 encoding related changes (min_zoom not added).
- UPDATED: ne_10m_time_zones
- Fix geometry errors. Fixes: #4, #164. Thanks @xangregg.
- UTF-8 encoding related changes.
- UPDATED: ne_10m_urban_areas
- Adds min_zoom
- UTF-8 encoding related changes.
- UPDATED: ne_10m_urban_areas_landscan
- UTF-8 encoding related changes.
10M_PHYSICAL
- UPDATED: ne_10m_antarctic_ice_shelves_lines
- Add scalerank and min_zoom to ice shelves themes (and min_zoom). Fixes: #198
- UPDATED: ne_10m_antarctic_ice_shelves_polys
- Add scalerank and min_zoom to ice shelves themes (and min_zoom). Fixes: #198
- UPDATED: ne_10m_bathymetry related themes:
ne_10m_bathymetry_A_10000
ne_10m_bathymetry_B_9000
ne_10m_bathymetry_C_8000
ne_10m_bathymetry_D_7000
ne_10m_bathymetry_E_6000
ne_10m_bathymetry_F_5000
ne_10m_bathymetry_G_4000
ne_10m_bathymetry_H_3000
ne_10m_bathymetry_I_2000
ne_10m_bathymetry_J_1000
ne_10m_bathymetry_K_200
ne_10m_bathymetry_L_0
- Fix geometry errors. Fixes: #4, #164. Thanks @xangregg.
- UPDATED: ne_10m_coastline
- Adds min_zoom. Change scalerank from float to int.
- Sri Lanka coastline had a bad scalerank. Fixes: #157, thanks @teahan36.
- UPDATED: ne_10m_geographic_lines
- Adds min_zoom property.
- Fix geometry errors. Fixes: #4, #164. Thanks @xangregg.
- UPDATED: ne_10m_minor_islands related themes:
ne_10m_minor_islands
ne_10m_minor_islands_coastline
ne_10m_minor_islands_label_points
- Add Isla Genovesa (Galapagos, Ecuador) to minor islands and minor coastline.
Fixes: DGAUAB5MGT, thanks Roland.
- UPDATED: ne_10m_geography_marine_polys
- Adds min_label, max_label. Change scalerank from float to int.
NOTE: features don't have min_zoom as they should be label-only.
- Merge 2 Gulf of Anadyr' marine label areas into single multi-part polygon.
- Fix marine label area names & encoding, including Bahía de Campeche, Hecate
Strait, Queen Charlotte Strait, and almost all name_fr values. Fixes: #178
- Fix geometry topology errors for TopoJSON enthusiasts.
- UPDATED: ne_10m_geography_regions_elevation_points
- Adds min_zoom column.
- Mont Blanc is in France and Italy simultaneously. Fixes: #100 Thanks @dgddgd
- Correct Matterhorn elevation. Fixes: #103, #184, thanks @dkerkow, @almccon.
- Use newer Denali name as default for Mt. McKinley in Alaska.
Fixes: #154, thanks @almccon.
- Slide Mt. had wrong elevation. Fixes: #169 Thanks @mojodna
- UPDATED: ne_10m_geography_regions_points
- Adds min_zoom column.
- UPDATED: ne_10m_geography_regions_polys
- Adds min_label, max_label. Change scalerank from float to int.
NOTE: features don't have min_zoom as they should be label-only.
- Fix geometry topology errors for TopoJSON enthusiasts.
- UPDATED: ne_10m_glaciated_areas
- Adds min_zoom property.
- UPDATED: ne_10m_graticules related themes:
ne_10m_graticules_1
ne_10m_graticules_10
ne_10m_graticules_15
ne_10m_graticules_20
ne_10m_graticules_30
ne_10m_graticules_5
ne_10m_wgs84_bounding_box
- Change the dd column to a signed integer from float.
- UPDATED: ne_10m_lakes related themes, including:
ne_10m_lakes
ne_10m_lakes_europe
ne_10m_lakes_historic
ne_10m_lakes_north_america
ne_10m_lakes_pluvial
- Adds min_zoom, min_label. Change scalerank from float to int.
- Restore St. Marys River polygon between Lake Superior and Lake Huron from
the v2 series. Fixes 6XQ5T9B31W, thanks Rob.
- Fix corrupted accent marks on rivers, lakes, physical label areas.
Fixes: XTAVLERD11, thanks Graham.
- UPDATED: ne_10m_land and ocean related themes:
ne_10m_land
ne_10m_land_ocean_label_points
ne_10m_land_ocean_seams
ne_10m_land_scale_rank
ne_10m_ocean
ne_10m_ocean_scale_rank
- Adds min_zoom.
- UPDATED: ne_10m_playas
- Adds min_zoom.
- UPDATED: ne_10m_reefs
- Adds min_zoom.
- UPDATED: ne_10m_rivers related themes:
ne_10m_rivers_lake_centerlines
ne_10m_rivers_lake_centerlines_scale_rank
ne_10m_rivers_north_america
ne_10m_rivers_europe
- Adds min_zoom, min_label. Change strokewei from to float with 2 decimals,
add name_alt column, add name_en column.
- The Europe river supplemental had long names with commas, this update splits
the second name into a new name_alt column. Fixes: #201.
- Fix corrupted accent marks on rivers, lakes, physical label areas.
Fixes: XTAVLERD11, thanks Graham.
- Fixes Scheldt river name in Belgium. Fixes BNQ6DNJNPG, thanks Michel.
- Correct the Flo of the Po. Fixes: #183, thanks @dshorthouse.
- Fix names of dozens of rivers and lakes in Europe including Russia and
Ukraine. Fixes: #182, #211. Thanks @CaucasusandMercury.
- Correct misspelled rivers names. Fixes: #155, thanks @pinakographos.
- Correct La Loire and Allier river names and alignments in France.
Fixes BWEGTWVGL7, thanks Alain.
- Fix the Sava and Ljubljanica rivers in Croatia and Slovenia.
Fixes 5U82RQN2ZX, thanks Alain.
- Fix Garonne river tributary names. Fixes 1HDEL3DRX8, thanks Aileen.
- Vltava (nea Moldau) river in the Czechia. Fixes DL2WR6AWT6, thanks Daniel.
- St. Croix River (forming a part of the eastern boarder of MN) was mislabeled
as Namekagon River. Fixes 9WZGP6GMY6, thanks Matt.
- Close Klamath river gap in California. Fixes #159, @pinakographos.
- Trim Yukon, Porcupine rivers overshoot in Alaska.
Fixes #159, @pinakographos.
50M_CULTURAL
- UPDATED: ne_50m_admin-0 related themes, including:
ne_50m_admin_0_countries
ne_50m_admin_0_countries_lakes
ne_50m_admin_0_map_subunits
ne_50m_admin_0_map_units
ne_50m_admin_0_scale_rank
ne_50m_admin_0_sovereignty
ne_50m_admin_0_breakaway_disputed_areas
- Add min_zoom, min_label, max_label changes and similar 10M_CULTURAL changes.
- Correct Caribbean Netherlands grouping. Fixes 72NTBEHVAT (thanks Charles)
- Fix geometry errors (ne_50m_admin_0_scale_rank, ne_50m_admin_0_sovereignty,
ne_50m_admin_0_tiny_countries). Fixes: #4, #164. Thanks @xangregg.
- Fix other geometry topology errors for TopoJSON enthusiasts.
- UPDATED: ne_50m_admin_0_tiny_countries
- UPDATED: ne_50m_admin_0_tiny_countries_scale_rank
- Add min_zoom, min_label, max_label changes and similar 10M_CULTURAL changes.
- Fix geometry errors. Fixes: #4, #164. Thanks @xangregg.
- UPDATED: ne_50m_admin_0_boundary_lines_land
- Adds min_zoom property.
- UPDATED: ne_50m_admin_0_boundary_lines_maritime_indicator
- Adds min_zoom property.
- UPDATED: ne_50m_admin_0_boundary_map_units
- Adds min_zoom property.
- UPDATED: ne_50m_admin_0_boundary_lines_disputed_areas
- Adds min_zoom and note properties.
- UPDATED: ne_50m_admin_0_pacific_groupings
- Minor undocumented updates.
- UPDATED: ne_50m_admin_1_states_provinces
ne_50m_admin_1_states_provinces_lakes
ne_50m_admin_1_states_provinces_scale_rank
- Add min_zoom, min_label, max_label changes and similar 10M_CULTURAL changes.
- Fix geometry errors. Fixes: #4, #164. Thanks @xangregg.
- Change scalerank in ne_50m_admin_1_states_provinces_scale_rank to an int.
- UPDATED: ne_50m_admin_1_states_provinces_lines
- Contents of ne_50m_admin_1_states_provinces_lines.zip were inconsistently
named; related admin-1 packaging. Fixes: #124 Thanks @mojodna
- Fix geometry errors. Fixes: #4, #164. Thanks @xangregg.
- UPDATED: ne_50m_populated_places
- Same changes as ne_10m_populated_places.
- UPDATED: ne_50m_populated_places_simple
- Same changes as ne_10m_populated_places_simple, add min_zoom property.
- UPDATED: ne_50m_airports
- Minor undocumented updates.
- UPDATED: ne_50m_ports
- Minor undocumented updates.
- UPDATED: ne_50m_urban_areas
- Add min_zoom property.
50M_PHYSICAL
The following files include the same changes as the 10m versions (mostly adding min_zoom properties).
- UPDATED: ne_50m_antarctic_ice_shelves_lines
- UPDATED: ne_50m_antarctic_ice_shelves_polys
- UPDATED: ne_50m_coastline
- UPDATED: ne_50m_geographic_lines
- UPDATED: ne_50m_geography_marine_polys
- UPDATED: ne_50m_geography_regions_elevation_points
- UPDATED: ne_50m_geography_regions_points
- UPDATED: ne_50m_geography_regions_polys
- UPDATED: ne_50m_glaciated_areas
- UPDATED: ne_50m_graticules related themes:
ne_50m_graticules_1
ne_50m_graticules_10
ne_50m_graticules_15
ne_50m_graticules_20
ne_50m_graticules_30
ne_50m_graticules_5
ne_50m_wgs84_bounding_box
- UPDATED: ne_50m_lakes
- UPDATED: ne_50m_lakes_historic
- UPDATED: ne_50m_land
- UPDATED: ne_50m_ocean
- UPDATED: ne_50m_playas
- UPDATED: ne_50m_rivers_lake_centerlines
- UPDATED: ne_50m_rivers_lake_centerlines_scale_rank
110M_CULTURAL
The following files include the same changes as the 10m versions (mostly adding min_zoom properties), unless otherwise noted.
- UPDATED: ne_110m_admin-0 related themes, including:
ne_110m_admin_0_countries
ne_110m_admin_0_countries_lakes
ne_110m_admin_0_map_units
ne_110m_admin_0_scale_rank
ne_110m_admin_0_sovereignty
- Fix geometry errors. Fixes: #4, #164. Thanks @xangregg.
- Fix other geometry topology errors for TopoJSON enthusiasts.
- UPDATED: ne_110m_admin_0_boundary_lines_land
- UPDATED: ne_110m_admin_0_pacific_groupings
- UPDATED: ne_110m_admin_0_tiny_countries
- UPDATED: ne_110m_admin-1 related themes, including:
ne_110m_admin_1_states_provinces
ne_110m_admin_1_states_provinces_lakes
ne_110m_admin_1_states_provinces_scale_rank
- Fix geometry errors. Fixes: #4, #164. Thanks @xangregg.
- UPDATED: ne_110m_admin_1_states_provinces_lines
- Fix geometry errors. Fixes: #4, #164. Thanks @xangregg.
- UPDATED: ne_110m_populated_places
- UPDATED: ne_110m_populated_places_simple
110M_PHYSICAL
The following files include the same changes as the 10m versions (mostly adding min_zoom properties).
- UPDATED: ne_110m_coastline
- UPDATED: ne_110m_geographic_lines
- UPDATED: ne_110m_geography_marine_polys
- UPDATED: ne_110m_geography_regions_elevation_points
- UPDATED: ne_110m_geography_regions_points
- UPDATED: ne_110m_geography_regions_polys
- UPDATED: ne_110m_glaciated_areas
- UPDATED: ne_110m_graticules related themes:
ne_110m_graticules_1
ne_110m_graticules_10
ne_110m_graticules_15
ne_110m_graticules_20
ne_110m_graticules_30
ne_110m_graticules_5
ne_110m_wgs84_bounding_box
- UPDATED: ne_110m_lakes
- UPDATED: ne_110m_land
- Correct featurecla to Land from Country.
- UPDATED: ne_110m_ocean
- UPDATED: ne_110m_rivers_lake_centerlines
2017-01-09: 3.3.1
- BUG FIX: Fixed encoding funk for populated places (Montréal & etc) for 10m, 50m, and
110m CULTURAL scale sets.
2015-01-16: 3.3.0
- Added new Manual Shaded Relief to the 50m raster set.
2014-10-18: 3.2.0
- Erased [Sandy Island](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Island,_New_Caledonia) from all
Natural Earth raster files (10m and 50m sets).
2013-12-03: 3.1.0
- Minor fix to restore missing Brcko District and portion of Republic Srpska in Bosnia and
Herzegovina that went missing in 3.0.0 when Brcko District was added to the admin-1 but not
completely to admin-0. The boundary lines were fixed in 3.0.0 already.
- UPDATED: ne_10m_admin_0_disputed_areas_scale_rank_minor_islands - Restore missing Brcko
District and portion of Republic Srpska in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- UPDATED: ne_10m_admin_0_disputed_areas - Restore missing Brcko District and portion of
Republic Srpska in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- UPDATED: ne_10m_admin_0_countries - Restore missing Brcko District and portion of
Republic Srpska in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- UPDATED: ne_10m_admin_0_countries_lakes - Restore missing Brcko District and portion of
Republic Srpska in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- UPDATED: ne_10m_admin_0_map_subunits - Restore missing Brcko District and portion of
Republic Srpska in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- UPDATED: ne_10m_admin_0_map_units - Restore missing Brcko District and portion of
Republic Srpska in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- UPDATED: ne_10m_admin_0_scale_rank_minor_islands - Restore missing Brcko District and
portion of Republic Srpska in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- UPDATED: ne_10m_admin_0_scale_rank - Restore missing Brcko District and portion of
Republic Srpska in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- UPDATED: ne_10m_admin_0_sovereignty - Restore missing Brcko District and portion of
Republic Srpska in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- UPDATED: ne_10m_admin_0_label_points - Add Brcko District and portion of Republic
Srpska in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
2013-12-01: 3.0.1
- Tiny bug fix, reposting ne_10m_land SHP and ZIP.
- BUG FIX: ne_10m_land - Fix NaN error in SHP component. Bad file copy earlier?
2013-06-02: 3.0.0
- Many thanks to the individuals who contributed over the last year of development: Tom,
Nathaniel, staff of Geographx in New Zealand, David at foursquare and more.
GENERAL
1) Updates to the admin-1 layer in 10m series to radically increase coverage, quality, and
move towards fully UTF-8 based Shapefiles, no more GeoDB! Because everything is now SHP
format, the 50m and 110m admin-1 files have also been renamed.
2) Updates in New Zealand for coastline, rivers, lakes, geographic areas, roads, railroad,
and populated places.
3) Coastline updates in New Zealand, deletion of Sandy Island, and other admin-1 adjustments
force the admin-0, and ocean, land & some bathymetry polygons to rebuild.
4) Pinnacles National Monument elevated to National Park.
5) Salish Sea added for physical marine label areas.
6) Minor changes for Russian hydrology in 10m and 50m series.
7) Sister site quattroshapes.com launches with administrative data at nominal 1:100,000 scale.
10M_CULTURAL
- UPDATED: ne_10m_admin_0_boundary_lines_disputed_areas - more disputed areas to match
US State Department data.
- UPDATED: ne_10m_admin_0_disputed_areas_scale_rank_minor_islands - more disputed areas
to match US State Department data.
- UPDATED: ne_10m_admin_0_disputed_areas - more disputed areas to match US State
Department data.
- UPDATED: ne_10m_admin_0_boundary_lines_land - better match US State Department
1:100,000 data.
- UPDATED: ne_10m_admin_0_boundary_lines_map_units - minor to no change.
- UPDATED: ne_10m_admin_0_boundary_lines_maritime_indicator - Caribbean adjustment.
- UPDATED: ne_10m_admin_0_countries - minor changes to attributes, coastline changes.
- UPDATED: ne_10m_admin_0_countries_lakes - minor changes to attributes,
coastline changes.
- UPDATED: ne_10m_admin_0_map_subunits - minor changes to attributes, coastline changes.
- UPDATED: ne_10m_admin_0_map_units - minor changes to attributes, coastline changes.
- UPDATED: ne_10m_admin_0_scale_rank_minor_islands - minor changes to attributes,
coastline changes.
- UPDATED: ne_10m_admin_0_scale_rank - minor changes to attributes, coastline changes.
- UPDATED: ne_10m_admin_0_sovereignty - minor changes to attributes, coastline changes.
- UPDATED: ne_10m_admin_0_label_points - minor changes to attributes, coastline changes.
- UPDATED: ne_10m_admin_1_states_provinces - major changes to attributes and coverage,
coastline changes.
- UPDATED: ne_10m_admin_1_states_provinces_scale_rank - major changes to attributes and
coverage, coastline changes.
- UPDATED: ne_10m_admin_1_states_provinces_lakes - major changes to attributes and
coverage, coastline changes.
- UPDATED: ne_10m_admin_1_states_provinces_lines - major changes to attributes and
coverage, coastline changes.
- UPDATED: ne_10m_admin_1_label_points - major changes to attributes and coverage,
coastline changes.
- UPDATED: ne_10m_populated_places - additional coverage in New Zealand.
- UPDATED: ne_10m_railroads - additional coverage in New Zealand.
- UPDATED: ne_10m_roads - additional coverage in New Zealand.
- UPDATED: ne_10m_parks_and_protected_lands- Pinnacles National Monument elevated to
National Park.
10M_PHYSICAL
- UPDATED: ne_10m_coastline - No more Sandy Island, better coverage in New Zealand
- UPDATED: ne_10m_minor_islands_coastline - minor adjustments.
- UPDATED: ne_10m_geography_marine_polys - Salish Sea added.
- UPDATED: ne_10m_geography_regions_polys - additional coverage in New Zealand.
- UPDATED: ne_10m_lakes - additional coverage in New Zealand; Russian adjustments.
- UPDATED: ne_10m_land - No more Sandy Island, better coverage in New Zealand
- UPDATED: ne_10m_land_scale_rank - No more Sandy Island, better coverage in New Zealand
- UPDATED: ne_10m_ocean - No more Sandy Island, better coverage in New Zealand
- UPDATED: ne_10m_ocean_scale_rank - No more Sandy Island, better coverage in New Zealand
- UPDATED: ne_10m_rivers_lake_centerlines_scale_rank - additional coverage in New
Zealand; Russian adjustments.
- UPDATED: ne_10m_rivers_lake_centerlines - additional coverage in New Zealand; Russian
adjustments.
- UPDATED: ne_10m_bathymetry_I_2000 - No more Sandy Island
- UPDATED: ne_10m_bathymetry_J_1000 - No more Sandy Island
- UPDATED: ne_10m_bathymetry_K_200 - No more Sandy Island
- UPDATED: ne_10m_bathymetry_L_0 - No more Sandy Island
- UPDATED: ne_10m_land_ocean_label_points - No more Sandy Island, other
coastline changes.
- UPDATED: ne_10m_land_ocean_seams - No more Sandy Island, other coastline changes.
50M_CULTURAL
- UPDATED: ne_50m_admin_1_states_provinces - remove _shp postfix like 10m changes.
- UPDATED: ne_50m_admin_1_states_provinces_scale_rank - remove _shp postfix
like 10m changes.
- UPDATED: ne_50m_admin_1_states_provinces_lakes - remove _shp postfix like 10m changes.
50M_PHYSICAL
- UPDATED: ne_50m_lakes - Russian hydro.
- UPDATED: ne_50m_rivers_lake_centerlines_scale_rank - Russian hydro.
- UPDATED: ne_50m_rivers_lake_centerlines - Russian hydro
110M_CULTURAL
- UPDATED: ne_110m_admin_1_states_provinces - remove _shp postfix like 10m changes.
- UPDATED: ne_110m_admin_1_states_provinces_lakes - remove _shp postfix like 10m changes.
- UPDATED: ne_110m_admin_1_states_provinces_scale_rank - remove _shp postfix
like 10m changes.
2012-10-12: 2.0.0
- Full details: http://www.naturalearthdata.com/blog/miscellaneous/natural-earth-v2-0-0-release-notes/.
- Many thanks to the individuals who contributed over the last year of development: Tom,
Nathaniel, Alex Tait, Hans van der Maarel, Scott Zillmer, Mike Migurski, Daniel Huffman,
Xan Gregg, Peter Bispham, Drew Noakes, Miguel Angel Vilela, Matthew Toro, Kevin Pickell,
Shawn Allen, Robert Coup, Iain, Leo, and more! Thanks also to Stamen thru the Knight
Foundation Citytracking grant for sponsoring a portion of this work including remastering
geometries for better PostGIS import, the move to Github, and adopting semantic versioning.
GENERAL
- UPDATED: NATURAL_EARTH_UPDATE_2.0.0 - This release focuses on 7 major areas:
1) Economic geography: adds global roads, railroads, ports, airports, and time zones to
show how people are interconnected and goods route.
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 for files in the the 1:10m
scaleset. By removing self-intersections, sliver polygons, and adjusting offset polygons,
Natural Earth imports into more GIS software (like PostGIS) and will be easier to
maintain. The coastline is adjusted to better conform to ~1:3,000,000 satellite imagery.
Because of all these changes, some raster themes are also updated. 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. Worldwide terrain depicted monochromatically in shades of
gray. It combines shaded relief and regionally adjusted hypsography that emphasizes both
high mountains and the micro terrain found in lowlands. View new raster »
4) New file name and field name schemas. Full adoption of ne_10m_theme_name.shp file names
with `ne_` prefix to allow better import into GeoDB and PostGIS storage, lowercase field
(column) names instead of MiXeD and UPPER cased names, and use of consistent `name` field
(versus name1).
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.
* Other notable changes:
All themes now include README and VERSION files. The admin-0 attributes have more veracity
and now includes nested disputed areas (was a sidecar). Adds continent, region, subregion
codes. Adds versions of country and admin-1 without boundary lakes. All places and parts
of places have population and GDP estimates. The populated places pop_max and pop_min
attributes are now fully built out for all records (pop max is for the metropolitan area,
pop_min is for the incorporated city of the same name). populated places now include
rank_max and rank_min for simple town size grading. All instances of name1 have been
changed to name, name to name, name2 to name_alt. Vertexes were added to many themes to
allow them to project into conics smoothly (they're back!). All field (column) names are
now generally in the order of: scalerank, featurecla, name, name_alt, natscale,
labelrank, *.
PACKAGES
- UPDATED: NATURAL_EARTH_QUICK_START - Incorporates all changes above and below.
10M_BUILDING_BLOCKS
- **NEW**: NE_10M_LAND_OCEAN_LABEL_POINTS - Used for building the 10m
physical geometry.
- **NEW**: NE_10M_MINOR_ISLAND_LABEL_POINTS - Used for building the
10m physical geometry.
- **NEW**: NE_10M_ADMIN_0_LABEL_POINTS - Used for building the 10m
cultural geometry.
- **NEW**: NE_10M_ADMIN_1_LABEL_POINTS.GDB - Used for building the
10m cultural geometry.
- **NEW**: NE_10M_ADMIN_1_LABEL_POINTS_DETAILS.GDB - Used for
building the 10m cultural geometry.
- **NEW**: NE_10M_LAND_OCEAN_SEAMS - Used for building the 10m
physical geometry. Includes densified vertex along lines to allow
smooth projection into conics.
- **NEW**: NE_10M_ADMIN_0_SEAMS - Used for building the 10m cultural
geometry. Includes densified vertex along lines to allow smooth
projection into conics.
- **NEW**: NE_10M_ADMIN_1_SEAMS - Used for building the 10m cultural
geometry. Includes densified vertex along lines to allow smooth
projection into conics.
NATURAL_EARTH_VECTOR
- **NEW**: NATURAL_EARTH_VECTOR.SQLITE All natural earth themes
packaged in a single sqlite database file.
HOUSEKEEPING
- UPDATED: NE_ADMIN_0_DETAILS - Track admin-0 countries and other
levels. Updated for South Sudan, map colors, population figures,
removed () from notes, and more. note: diffs between sov, adm0, map
units, map subunits, and new breakaways are all calculated on the a3
codes now, no longer mix of names and a3 codes. Added and split
note_adm0 and note_brk to note which countries are parts of which
sovereignties and who's breaking away or disputing. One spurious
“county” feature code fixed to “country” (finland). Added labelrank
on all. Added new mapcolors (7, 8, 9 and old 13). Includes new
detail on Caribbean Netherlands map unit. Adds more detail to Bhutan
disputed areas. Now includes continent codes, and future region code
placeholder columns. Fixes over 2.0.0 release candidate 2 problems
in Georgia, Chile, and Cyprus for parts that had scaleranks > 6 and
were disappearing from countries and up on selection / dissolve.
Added name_len to know when to abbreviate labels.
- **NEW**: NE_ADMIN_0_FULL_ATTRIBUTES - Added as placeholder for
extra thematic data by country (eg from World Bank, CIA World
Factbook, etc) but only has old 1.2 era data for now.
- **NEW**: NE_ADMIN_1_DETAILS - Track admin-1 states and provinces.
- UPDATED: NE_THEMES_VERSIONS - What version is each file at? Stats on each.
10M_CULTURAL
- UPDATED: NE_10M_ADMIN_0_SOVEREIGNTY - See changelog for
ne_10m_admin_0_scale_rank_minor_islands, below.
- UPDATED: NE_10M_ADMIN_0_COUNTRIES - See changelog for
ne_10m_admin_0_scale_rank_minor_islands, below.
- UPDATED: NE_10M_ADMIN_0_MAP_UNITS - See changelog for
ne_10m_admin_0_scale_rank_minor_islands, below.
- UPDATED: ne_10m_admin_0_map_subunits - See changelog for
ne_10m_admin_0_scale_rank_minor_islands, below.
- UPDATED: NE_10M_ADMIN_0_DISPUTED_AREAS - See changelog for
ne_10m_admin_0_disputed_areas_scale_rank, below.
- UPDATED: NE_10M_ADMIN_0_DISPUTED_AREAS_SCALE_RANK - Now derived
from the admin-0 scale ranks. specific admin_a3 codes have been
added for each. additional disputed areas have been added, some
modified, including adding Taiwan, more detail around Bhutan, and
adding labelrank attribute to help know when it's relevant to label
on map. Fixes: N96NSYPAPV.
- UPDATED: NE_10M_ADMIN_0_SCALE_RANK - See changelog for
ne_10m_admin_0_scale_rank_minor_islands, below.
- UPDATED: NE_10M_ADMIN_0_SCALE_RANK_MINOR_ISLANDS - Name change to