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<p>Via <a href="http://spatiallyadjusted.com/2012/11/14/natural-earth-2-dot-0-is-available/">James</a> I learned that earlier this month was <a href="http://www.naturalearthdata.com/blog/miscellaneous/natural-earth-v2-0-0-release-notes/">released Natural Earth v2.0.0</a>. A quick reminder: <em>"Natural Earth is a public domain map dataset available at 1:10m, 1:50m, and 1:110 million scales. Featuring tightly integrated vector and raster data, with Natural Earth you can make a variety of visually pleasing, well-crafted maps with cartography or GIS software."</em> We mentioned this dataset <a href="http://slashgeo.org/search/node/%22natural%20earth%22">in the past</a> quite a few times.</p>
<p>From the 2.0.0 release notes: <em>"The 2.0.0 release focuses on 7 major areas and is available to download today à la carte at <a href="http://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/">NaturalEarthData</a>. ZIP combo downloads of all vectors: <a href="http://kelso.it/x/nevector">SHP</a> (279 mb) or <a href="http://kelso.it/x/nesqlite">SQLite</a> (222 mb) or <a href="http://kelso.it/x/nequickstart">QuickStart kit for ArcMap and QGIS</a> (165 mb). [What's new:]</em></p>
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<em>Economic geography</em></li>
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<em>Remastered geometries</em></li>
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<em>Introduc Gray Earth rasters</em></li>
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<em>New file name and field name schemas</em></li>
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<em>Address user submitted bug reports</em></li>
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<em>Moved to GitHub</em></li>
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<em>Adopt semantic versioning"</em></li>
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