[Geodata] Natural Earth public domain data

[Hamish]

Jo wrote:

> Thanks for sending this. I made an entry in CKAN for it:
> http://ckan.net/package/naturalearth
> 
> If you are connected with the project, it would be brilliant if you
> could fill in some of the author/maintainer contact information at
> http://ckan.net/package/edit/naturalearth
> 
> At work (edina.ac.uk) we are looking for sources of global vector data
> that are, crucially, maintained and regularly updated by someone else
> :) Does Natural Earth publish an update schedule, that would help one
> estimate the time commitment of keeping up to date with changes?


fyi we maintain a list of data sources, maybe it is of use to you:
  http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/Global_datasets


Hamish