Large Scale Public Domain GIS Shapefile Map Layers and GeoTIFF Raster Images of the World by Country
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Natural Earth is a public domain map dataset available at 1:10m, 1:50m, and 1:110m scales. Featuring tightly integrated geodata in ArcGIS shapefile vector and raster formats. With Natural Earth you can make a variety of visually pleasing, well-crafted maps with cartography or GIS software. Check here for free GIS programs.
Large scale data, 1:10m
The most detailed. Suitable for making zoomed-in maps of countries and regions.
1:10,000,000
1" = 158 miles
1 cm = 100 km
Cultural GIS Vector Shapefile Layers
- Countries - There are 240 countries in the world. Greenland as separate from Denmark.
- Country details - Country subdivisions and the smallest map units.
- Country boundaries on land and offshore.
- Breakaway, disputed areas.
- States, Provinces - Internal administrative boundaries.
- Populated Places - City and town points
- Urban Areas - Area of dense human habitation.
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Physical GIS Vector Shapefile Layers
- Coastline and major islands.
- Land polygons including major islands.
- Minor Islands - Islands that are 2 sq. km or less in size.
- Coral reefs and atolls.
- Ocean polygon split into contiguous pieces.
- Rivers, Lake Centerlines - Single-line drainages including optional lake centerlines.
- Natural and artificial lakes.
- Area and point labels of major physical features.
- Playas - Salt pans and intermittent lakes.
- Glaciers and recently de-glaciated areas.
- Year-round ice shelves fringing Antarctica.
- Bathymetry - Nested polygons for each depth created from SRTM Plus.
- Tropical and polar circles, equator, and International Date Line.
- Grids at 1, 5, 10, 15, 20, and 30� intervals. Includes WGS84 bounding box.
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GeoTIFF Raster Images
Cross-blended Hypsometric Tints
Shaded relief combined with custom elevation colors based on climate�humid lowlands are green and arid lowlands brown. As in nature, the map colors gradually blend into one another across regions (x and y axis) and from lowlands to highlands (z axis), hence the name cross-blended hypsometric tints.
Natural Earth 1
Satellite-derived land cover data and shaded relief presented with a light, natural palette suitable for making thematic and reference maps. Natural Earth I is available with ocean bottom data, or without.
Natural Earth 2
This data derived from Natural Earth 1 portrays the world environment in an idealized manner with little human influence. The softly blended colors of Natural Earth 2 are ideal for historical mapping, because it shows the world much as it looked before the modern era.
Ocean Bottom
Blended depth colors and relief shading of the ocean bottom derived from CleanTOPO2 data. The ocean color extends beneath land areas as a flat tint�mask it with the 10m Natural Earth vector shoreline, or a shoreline from another data source.
Shaded Relief
Grayscale shaded relief of land areas only derived from downsampled SRTM Plus elevation data clipped to the 10 million-scale Natural Earth coastline. A flat gray tint fills water areas.
Download GeoTIFF Raster Images
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