Cameron et al,<div><br></div><div><meta charset="utf-8"><div>Natural Earth has over 150 files in three scale sets and is several gigabytes in size. Including the full vector would be a couple hundred mb only. </div><div><br>
</div><div>The small selection of files I outline below gives a good indication of thematic coverage and is composed of our most popular downloads. </div><div><br></div><meta charset="utf-8"><div><meta charset="utf-8">Cultural @ 1:10 Million scale</div>
<div><div>countries (adm-0)</div><div>states/provinces (adm-1)</div><div>populated places (cities, about 7,000 of them)</div><div>urban area</div><div><br></div><div><meta charset="utf-8"><div>Physical @ 1:10 Million scale</div>
<div></div></div><div>land</div><div>ocean</div><div>lakes</div><div>rivers</div><div>label areas for:</div><div>- marine</div><div>- land</div><div>- elevations (mountains)</div><div>- geography points (capes, etc)</div>
<div><br></div><div><meta charset="utf-8"><div><div>Raster @ 1:50 Million scale (smaller file than the 1:10M version)</div><div></div></div></div><div>hypsometric tints (color by elevation) with relief shading</div><div>or</div>
<div>greyscale relief shading</div><div><br></div><div><meta charset="utf-8">Including the physical label area themes honors the "natural" in the project name and meets of the needs of scientists using the data, too.</div>
<div><br></div><div>_Nathaniel V. KELSO</div><div> <a href="http://naturalearthdata.com">naturalearthdata.com</a></div><div> <a href="http://kelsocartography.com/blog">kelsocartography.com/blog</a></div><div> @kelsosCorner</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 18:52, Nathaniel V. KELSO <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kelsonwp@gmail.com">kelsonwp@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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There have been a few emails floating back and forth about which<br>
Natural Earth layers should be included on the OSGeo-Live DVD, which<br>
I'm hoping will now come on list as I feel the Natural Earth dataset<br>
has the potential to benefit most applications installed on<br>
OSGeo-Live.<br>
<br>
The NaturalEarth project provide free world base maps at various<br>
resolutions and in various formats.<br>
<br>
What I'd like to know is which of these layers we should be including<br>
on OSGeo-Live (noting that we are space limited and won't be able to<br>
include them all).<br>
Ideally, we should provide a representative range of datasets which<br>
can be used to demonstrate all our applications. I assume this should<br>
include:<br>
* A point layer<br>
* A line layer<br>
* A polygon layer<br>
* A raster layer<br>
I expect there will be other requirements that people will want from<br>
the data. What are they?<br>
<br>
Nathaniel, (from the NaturalEarth community),<br>
Would you mind sharing your thoughts on which datasets you think we<br>
should include and why.<br>
<br>
--<br>
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