[Geodata] Natural Earth public domain data

[Keith Jenkins]

No, I'm not involved with the project.  But their website solicits
correction tickets from users, and just released their first update
last week.  As far as I can tell, there isn't any regular schedule,
but as needed.

Keith

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Jo Walsh <jo at frot.org> wrote:
> dear Keith, all,
>
> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 3:08 PM, Keith Jenkins <kgj2 at cornell.edu> wrote:
>> In December 2009, Natural Earth started offering "free vector and
>> raster map data at 1:10m, 1:50m, and 1:110m scales"
>> http://www.naturalearthdata.com/
>
> 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?
>
> cheers,
>
>
> jo
> --
>