The CIA World Factbook in shapefile form

[Putler, Dan]

Hi All,

I have completed a reasonable beta version of a political world map  
that includes as attribute data fields information from the June 1,  
2006 CIA World Factbook. It is a beta version since it appears that  
some attribute field values that should be missing were coerced to  
numeric zero values at some point in the process of creating the  
data. When I get a chance, I'll fix this problem with a full release.

A I started working on this layer to use in showing GIS concepts to  
my 12 year old son. However, I quickly realized this would likely be  
of interest to both the Public Geodata and Education committees at  
OSGEO. Moreover, it seems like a good first contributed data  
offering, complete with the issues of how to handle metadata and  
licensing issues. The data are derived from the VMAP0 political  
boundary layer (which Markus Neteler provided valuable support in  
helping me to create). Parts of the VMAP0 political boundary layer  
seem to be in the public domain, while other parts seem to be under  
(a very liberal, non-commercial use) license from ESRI. In any event,  
if you are interested, the url to get this layer is www.pagcgeo.org/ 
world_factbk.zip.

Given the fairly high overlap between the Public Geodata and  
Education committee lists, I've decided to post this to the Public  
Geodata list.

Dan
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