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Natural Earth v2.0.0 release notes 9 Nov 2012 | 12:51 am
After over a year of development, we're proud to announce the immediate availability of Natural Earth 2.0.0! The 2.0.0 release focuses on 7 major areas: 1. Economic geography, 2. Remastered geometries...
Natural Earth version 1.4 release notes 20 Aug 2011 | 10:39 am
Natural Earth has been downloaded more than 250,000 times and is closing in on 1 million page views since launching in the final month of 2009. Thanks! Over 65 files have changed in version 1.4 of Na...
Natural Earth version 1.3 release notes 1 Feb 2011 | 12:40 am
When Natural Earth relaunched in December 2009 with updated raster and new vector data our aim was two fold: First, to give cartographers an off-the-shelf solution for creating small-scale world, regi...
New Cross Blended Hypso without Shaded Relief 26 Oct 2010 | 05:35 am
Due to popular demand, a new version of the Cross Blended Hypsometric Tints is available without relief shading. This allows the image to be used at scales other than 1:10M. The cartographer can then ...
Natural Earth version 1.2 release notes 25 May 2010 | 06:00 pm
This update introduces supplementary hydrography features in North America and Europe that quadruple (4x) the number of lakes and rivers there. Many thanks to Tom P. for generalizing the vectors and P...
Natural Earth Version 1.1 release notes 2 Mar 2010 | 10:00 am
The download manager will be updated the next couple weeks. In the meantime, please check out the ZIP, linked below, to get the 61 changed GIS shapefiles (SHP). Release notes follow. Download version...
Forum registration changes 1 Feb 2010 | 09:57 am
We’re now using stronger spam checks in the forum registration area (required to post in the forums) to combat a rise in spam users. Let us know if you’re not able to get thru or your posts aren’t sho...
Raster imagery 1.0.1 released 10 Jan 2010 | 08:59 am
The 10m and 50m raster data on the NE download pages are updated and now contain corrected TFW files. The 1.0.0 files were a tiny bit off in their extents, the new 1.0.1 files are now perfectly within...
Natural Earth Browser from Thematic Mapping 5 Jan 2010 | 03:37 am
[Editor's note: Bjorn over at his Thematic Mapping Blog has done up a Natural Earth tile set using open source tools. How have you been using Natural Earth?] Excerpted from Thematic Mapping Blog. My...
Planning for our first data update 8 Dec 2009 | 04:32 pm
We’ve had a good first 3 business days and it’s rewarding to see folks writing in with corrections and addendums. This is, after all, a group volunteer effort and it’ll only get better with your input...
