olayway / geo-admin1-us

Natural Earth admin1 in the USA

Geodata data package providing geojson polygons for the states in the USA.

Data

The data comes from Natural Earth, a community effort to make visually pleasing, well-crafted maps with cartography or GIS software at small scale.

This dataset covers the United States of America. admin1 are the biggest administrative area below the country : ie the states. See documentation for more information.

The shape of the admin1 have four fields :

• name : the common name for this admin1 subdivision
• id : Natural Earth adm1_code for the subdivision inside the country. Documentation is not clear what this code is, but it could be FIPS
• code : the well known two letter code for the state
• country : name of the country
• ISO3166-1-Alpha-3 : three letters iso code of the country

License

All data is licensed under the [Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License][pddl].

Note that the original data from Natural Earth is public domain. While no credit is formally required a link back or credit to Natural Earth, [Lexman][lexman] and the [Open Knowledge Foundation][okfn] is much appreciated.

All source code is licenced under the [MIT licence][mit].

<Map center={{ latitude: 45, longitude: 0 }} layers={[ { colorScale: { ending: '#00ff00', starting: '#ff0000' }, data: { url: 'data/admin1-us.geojson' }, name: 'Polygons', tooltip: { propNames: [ 'name' ] } } ]} title="Seas and Oceans Map" zoom={2} />