{"id":351,"date":"2010-08-11T15:25:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-11T15:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/2010\/08\/11\/did-you-know-31-natural-earth\/"},"modified":"2010-08-11T15:25:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-11T15:25:00","slug":"did-you-know-31-natural-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/2010\/08\/11\/did-you-know-31-natural-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Did You Know #31 &#8211; Natural Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.naturalearthdata.com\/wp-content\/themes\/NEV\/images\/nev_logo.png\"><span style=\"background-color: white\"><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Did you know you can get free<a href=\"http:\/\/outsidetheneatline.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/did-you-know_05.html\"> GIS <\/a>Data in both <a href=\"http:\/\/outsidetheneatline.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/did-you-know-6-raster-vs-vector.html\">Vector and Raster<\/a> format for the entire world? \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.naturalearthdata.com\/\">Natural Earth Data<\/a> provides three <a href=\"http:\/\/egsc.usgs.gov\/isb\/pubs\/factsheets\/fs01502.html\">scales<\/a> of data at:<\/p>\n<p>1:10,000,000<br \/>1:50,000,000<br \/>1:110,000,000<\/p>\n<p>These might seem like really small <a href=\"http:\/\/egsc.usgs.gov\/isb\/pubs\/factsheets\/fs01502.html\">scales<\/a> (and they are!), but if you&#8217;re mapping global data it&#8217;s more than suitable! \u00a0Additionally all the data is in the same format\/projection. \u00a0Featured data themes include:<\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"font-size: x-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.naturalearthdata.com\/downloads\/\">Cultural Vector:<\/a><\/span><\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.naturalearthdata.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/cultural_promo.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"163\" src=\"http:\/\/www.naturalearthdata.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/cultural_promo.gif\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Countries<\/li>\n<li>Disputed territories<\/li>\n<li>First order administration<\/li>\n<li>Populated Places<\/li>\n<li>Urban Places<\/li>\n<li>Parks and Protected Areas<\/li>\n<li>Pacific Nation Groupings<\/li>\n<li>Water boundaries<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.naturalearthdata.com\/downloads\/10m-cultural-vectors\/railroads\/\">Railroads!<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><span style=\"font-size: x-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.naturalearthdata.com\/downloads\/\">Physical Vector:<\/a><\/span><\/b><br \/><b><span style=\"font-size: x-large\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;font-weight: normal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.naturalearthdata.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/nev_10m_physical_2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"164\" src=\"http:\/\/www.naturalearthdata.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/nev_10m_physical_2.png\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Coastline<\/li>\n<li>Land<\/li>\n<li>Ocean<\/li>\n<li>Minor islands<\/li>\n<li>Reefs<\/li>\n<li>Physical Region Features<\/li>\n<li>River and Lake Centerlines<\/li>\n<li>Lakes<\/li>\n<li>Glaciated Areas<\/li>\n<li>Antartic Ice Shelves<\/li>\n<li>Bathymetry\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Geographic Lines<\/li>\n<li>Graticules<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>Additionally, there are some very nice elevation rasters!\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.naturalearthdata.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/ner_10m_raster_composite_feature_promo.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"138\" src=\"http:\/\/www.naturalearthdata.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/ner_10m_raster_composite_feature_promo.gif\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0So what are you waiting for!? Go check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.naturalearthdata.com\/\">Natural Earth Data&#8217;s website!<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Also Preview the data in their <a href=\"http:\/\/earthatlas.info\/naturalearth\/\">web mapping platform.<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/outsidetheneatline.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/did-you-know-10-you-can-download-nasa.html\">Other sources of free data<\/a><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know you can get free GIS Data in both Vector and Raster format for the entire world? \u00a0Natural Earth Data provides three scales of data at: 1:10,000,0001:50,000,0001:110,000,000 These might seem like really small scales (and they are!), but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/2010\/08\/11\/did-you-know-31-natural-earth\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}