[QGIS-Developer] saving a layer with the world_map.shp

[Raymond Nijssen]

A topologically more correct map is not easily to find, especially not 
in a tiny (shp) file size. Here are some links to examples:

http://www.statsilk.com/maps/download-free-shapefile-maps

But for educating CRS, for quickly finding out where your just opened 
dataset is, and for layout overview maps the current one is already very 
useful.

To improve it we could:
1. Generalize a correct map in a topological way
2. Remove all administrative boundaries from the current map to avoid 
people getting offended by disputed territories for example.

We should also watch out not to start shipping data packages with the 
software! Before we know there might be world boundaries at different 
scales and people starting to wonder why we do not provide cities, 
rivers, roads, coffee corners, ... :)

But a good resource platform (for data, svg, png, styles) in QGIS could 
make it easy to ship this kind of data in plugins and make it work for 
all users. Which was my original question.

Kind regards,
Raymond



On 12-06-19 06:00, Tim Sutton wrote:
> If you can find a better one or want to clean it I will be happy to 
> replace it. Just provide some metadata with it this time so we know the 
> provenance.
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> Thanks!
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> Regards
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> Tim
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>> On 11 Jun 2019, at 18:10, Bernd Vogelgesang <bernd.vogelgesang at gmx.de 
>> <mailto:bernd.vogelgesang at gmx.de>> wrote:
>>
>> This is a really nice easter egg and could be of great use for quickly 
>> showing new users the differences of different crs in a course, if the 
>> shape wastn't that full of topology errors :(
>>
>> Isn't there maybe a less buggy shape available?
>>
>> Bernd
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