Google Earth Geotiff

Natural Earth version 1. When Natural Earth relaunched in December 2. First, to give cartographers an off the shelf solution for creating small scale world, regional and country maps from scratch. Second, we included a wealth of features both large and small in hopes of improving the overall geographic literacy of map readers. Since then, weve taken Natural Earth on an around the world road show and January 2. We even made it into Wikipedia, were featured in Pretty. Maps, and power some of the goodness behind Google Fusion Tables. With todays 1. 3 release, we add a couple newly independent countries, better delineate the worlds states and provinces, and make a whole host of corrections and additions to the original dataset, detailed below. Please continue to use these fine map ingredients to make great web and print geo mashups. Bon appetit. Nathaniel Vaughn Kelso and Tom Patterson. Raster downloads are still la carte for 1. GENERALFiles continue to be published in GIS industry standard. WGS8. 4 geographic projection. By the numbers Almost 1. If specific descriptions are not provided below, you may assume version 1. That said, the majority of files 1. The version is indicated on each download page. More than three quarters of the initial 1. If a file has not changed, it retains its earlier version number. A new Natural Earth quick start kit 1. Natural Earth themes styled in an Arc. Map. MXD document read more at the Esri Mapping Center soon and in a QGIS document. OSGeo Live DVD now includes small sample of Natural Earth themes for use with open source GIS software like QGIS. RASTERFour new cross blended hypsometric tints resolutions now offer merged ocean bottom data and hypsometric tints without relief shading to better allow you to mashup your own. All TIFs are now Geo. Google Earth Geotiff' title='Google Earth Geotiff' />TIFs with projection and cell size, registration points baked in. Readme files have been added to all. A few files that had. A few corrupt header files have been fixed. The corrected files were silently updated a month or so ago. VECTORMany but not all features at 1. Some themes have also had their geometry repaired to make them easier to geoprocess and reproject. The goal is to make it easier to use Natural Earth in open source software that until those apps import horizon expands. Hydro Lakes Added Puma Yumco lake in Tibet on the Chinese border with Bhutan Y5. EVSR8. 4JU. Added a new Pluvial 1. Great Basin area of the United States and can grow to include more features as you send them in. Historic lakes include a more precise Aral Sea and now includes Lake Texcoco at Mexico City, circa 1. ZT3. 6PABLD9. Rivers Modified river and lake center lines and scale ranks for 1. North America supplement and 1. Europe river supplement. The main 1. 0m River files also received a couple edits. Address correction requests RL8. SJ4. XZE7 and 9. 9SJ9. ZYDBY. Specifically Added the IJssel river in the Netherlands, corrected the Hollandsch Diep Haringvliet Volkerak in the Netherlands initial version had 2 more or less parallel lines which actually are the north and south shore of a very wide river estuary. Also, FID 1. 11. 4 River. Raster For the datasets listed below, precomputed raster data are available from OpenTopography. These data include digital elevation model DEM layers computed. Num 9. 72 has been deleted in the Netherlands. Sacramento River in California has been adjusted at its mouth. Neighborhing Mokelumne River has been realigned to drain into the San Joaquin in the delta. St. Croix River on the border of Wisconsin and Minnesota becomes the dominant feature rather than Namekagon River in the dissolved version. Label areas Maritime label areas get corrections and many additions so all 5. WTXWNWSJ5. B. The bulk of work adds small and medium sized insular waters in south east Asia, Antarctica, the Canadian Arctic, BC and Alaska, and southern Chile. GM_Brest.jpg' alt='Google Earth Geotiff' title='Google Earth Geotiff' />Renamed water body in Netherlands A6. Z8. 9G6. Added Sargasso Sea around and east of Bermuda in North Atlantic Ocean. Added San Francisco Bay and Monterey Bay in California. Added more detail in the Amazon delta. Added Columbia River and Yangtze River mouths. Land label areas now clip North America, Europe, and Asia to 5. The West Indies Caribbean and Central America no longer included in North America, scale. Rank adjusted to view these sooner. Similar edits in Southeast Asia. New Region and Subregion columns added to account for discrepancies between labeling needs and geocoding needs and to sidestep which continent breakdown to subscribe to. Also introduces concept of Oceania into the dataset. In the physical label areas for feature. Class ismus is now isthmus and the pencape and penncape categories have been merged to pencape N7. VZEYD8. A. Several edge conditions along the 1. WARNING There is an Easter egg in this theme, be aware It has been coding as here be dragons. See admin 0 warning below. Swiss Railway Journeys. Label points and elevation points Moved Cape May USA MD north and adjusted Cape Hatteras in USA NC. Other random nips and tucks on XY alignment on other geography label points. In the feature. Class for these,Geographic lines Added new Kiribati date line extension and clipped to 1. Parks Two new U. S. National Park Service units added as the system expands to 3. President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home National Historic Site in Arkansas and River Raisin National Battlefield Park in Michigan. A new Name column has been added for easier map labeling at small scales. The existing Unit. Name continue to carry the official abbreviated name for labeling at large scales. Populated places Fix handful of city issues in all scales. Query and order satellite images, aerial photographs, and cartographic products through the U. S. Geological Survey. When Natural Earth relaunched in December 2009 with updated raster and new vector data our aim was two fold First, to give cartographers an offtheshelf. Download free maps, gis layers and ArcGIS shapefiles and geospatial data. United States Terrain Maps. Low resolution JPG files are linked below. Download high resolution JPGGeoTIFF files from here. Brazil cities YPP3. NGZXJ California PE2. V7. VALZZ. At some point would be nice to add another round of cities to get all metropolitan and micropolitan urban areas around the word. Some research has been done for North America and Europe. Please let Nathaniel know if you can help. Administrative NOTE There continues to be some confusion about the file structure. Most people will find the countries adm 0 file most useful. The other files are provided if you need conform to a different adm 0 coding to aggregate disputed areas like Western Sahara or surface other administrative regions like England in the UK. There are less than 1. There are 1. 87 other sovereign countries with no adm0 subdivisions. There are 2. 0 more countries that form subdivisions of the aforementioned sovereignties for a total of 2. Please be aware that Natuaral Earth counts the de facto status of countries like Taiwan and Somaliland. There are 9 disputed andor indeterminate areas. Caps A Crack more. There are 5 lease areas or other overlay for a total of 2. Map units accommodate 5. England versus Wales that arent part of the standard schema but are commonly identified by ISO or other bodies. It is helpful to label parts of countries that are not contiguous and the map subunits make that possible. Hp Deskjet 930C Driver For Windows 7. New countries The Netherlands Antilles was dissolved in October 2. Sint Maarten and Curaao were created out of part of the former territory, with the remaining islands devolved back to Netherlands as top level, overseas administrative units of that country. Aruba remains a country. WARNING A troubleshooting country has been added with an Indeterminate sovereignty class called Null Island 1, 2. It is a fictional, 1 meter square island located off Africa where the equator and prime meridian cross. Being centered at 0,0 zero latitude, zero longitude it is useful for flagging geocode failures which are routed to 0,0 by most mapping services. Aside Null Islands exist for all local coordinate reference systems besides WGS8.