vasturiano / natural-earth-geojson

Natural Earth data in GeoJSON

Natural Earth data in GeoJSON

Natural Earth "is a public domain map dataset available at 1:10m, 1:50m and 1:110 million scales." The vector data comes as ESRI shapefiles. This repository provides the same data but converted to GeoJSON, along with a compressed version.

The conversion is performed using ogr2ogr, part of the Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL). GDAL provides links to binaries. Debian provides the package gdal-bin.

Data Themes

An overview of the files, taken from the features page.

Cultural

Section	Description	1:10m	1:50m	1:110m
Countries	Matched boundary lines and polygons with names attributes for countries and sovereign states. Includes dependencies (French Polynesia), map units (U.S. Pacific Island Territories) and sub-national map subunits (Corsica versus mainland Metropolitan France).	Yes	Yes	Yes
Disputed areas and breakaway regions	From Kashmir to the Elemi Triangle, Northern Cyprus to Western Sahara.	Yes	Yes
First order admin	Provinces, departments, states, etc. Internal boundaries and polygons for all but a few tiny island nations. Includes names attributes and some statistical groupings of the same for smaller countries.	Yes	Yes
Populated places	Point symbols with name attributes. Includes capitals, major cities and towns, plus significant smaller towns in sparsely inhabited regions. We favor regional significance over population census in determining rankings.	Yes	Yes	Yes
Urban polygons	Derived from 2002-2003 MODIS satellite data.	Yes	Yes
Parks and protected areas	U.S. National Park Service units.	Yes
Pacific nation groupings	Boxes for keeping these far-flung islands tidy.	Yes	Yes	Yes
Water boundary indicators	Partial selection of key 200-mile nautical limits, plus some disputed, treaty, and median lines.	Yes

Physical

Section	Description	1:10m	1:50m	1:110m
Coastline	Ocean coastline, including major islands. Coastline is matched to land and water polygons.	Yes	Yes	Yes
Land	Land polygons including major islands	Yes	Yes	Yes
Ocean	Ocean polygon split into contiguous pieces.	Yes	Yes	Yes
Minor Islands	Additional small ocean islands ranked to two levels of relative importance.	Yes
Reefs	Major coral reefs from WDB2.	Yes
Physical region features	Polygon and point labels of major physical features.	Yes	Yes	Yes
Rivers and Lake Centerlines	Ranked by relative importance. Includes name and line width attributes. Don't want minor lakes? Turn on their centerlines to avoid unseemly data gaps.	Yes	Yes	Yes
Lakes	Ranked by relative importance, coordinating with river ranking. Includes name attributes.	Yes	Yes	Yes
Glaciated areas	Polygons derived from DCW, except for Antarctica derived from MOA. Includes name attributes for major polar glaciers.	Yes	Yes	Yes
Antarctic ice shelves	Derived from 2003-2004 MOA. Reflects recent ice shelf collapses.	Yes	Yes
Bathymetry	Nested polygons at 0, -200, -1,000, -2,000, -3,000, -4,000, -5,000, -6,000, -7,000, -8,000, -9,000,and -10,000 meters. Created from SRTM Plus.	Yes
Geographic lines	Polar circles, tropical circles, equator, and International Date Line.	Yes	Yes	Yes
Graticules	1-, 5-, 10-, 15-, 20-, and 30-degree increments. Includes WGS84 bounding box.	Yes	Yes	Yes

Version

Data used is version 4.0.0 (released 2017-11-03), the latest as of 2017-11-03.

Disclaimer

The Natural Earth disclaimer regarding disputed areas:

Natural Earth Vector draws boundaries of countries according to de facto status. We show who actually controls the situation on the ground. Please feel free to mashup our disputed area themes to match your particular political outlook.