Natural Earth Vector (NE)
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Natural Earth is a public domain map dataset available at 1:10m, 1:50m, and 1:110 million scales. Featuring tightly integrated vector and raster data, with Natural Earth you can make a variety of visually pleasing, well-crafted maps with cartography or GIS software.
Natural Earth was built through a collaboration of many volunteers and is supported by NACIS (North American Cartographic Information Society).
Natural Earth Vector comes in ESRI shapefile format, the de facto standard for vector geodata. Character encoding is Windows-1252.
Natural Earth Vector includes features corresponding to the following:
Cultural Vector Data Thremes:
- 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).
- Disputed areas and breakaway regions - From Kashmir to the Elemi Triangle, Northern Cyprus to Western Sahara.
- 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.
- 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.
- Urban polygons: derived from 2002-2003 MODIS satellite data.
- Parks and protected areas: US National Park Service units.
- Pacific nation groupings: boxes for keeping these far-flung islands tidy.
- Water boundary indicators: partial selection of key 200-mile nautical limits, plus some disputed, treaty, and median lines.
Physical Vector Data Themes:
- Coastline: ocean coastline, including major islands. Coastline is matched to land and water polygons.
- Land: Land polygons including major islands
- Ocean: Ocean polygon split into contiguous pieces.
- Minor Islands: additional small ocean islands ranked to two levels of relative importance.
- Reefs: major coral reefs from WDB2.
- Physical region features: polygon and point labels of major physical features.
- 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.
- Lakes: ranked by relative importance, coordinating with river ranking. Includes name attributes.
- Glaciated areas: polygons derived from DCW, except for Antarctica derived from MOA. Includes name attributes for major polar glaciers.
- Antarctic ice shelves: derived from 2003-2004 MOA. Reflects recent ice shelf collapses.
- 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.
- Geographic lines: Polar circles, tropical circles, equator, and International Date Line.
- Graticules: 1-, 5-, 10-, 15-, 20-, and 30-degree increments. Includes WGS84 bounding box.
Natural Earth 是一款公有领域地图数据集,提供1:10m、1:50m及1:110m三种比例尺规格。该数据集具备紧密集成的矢量(vector)与栅格(raster)数据,使用者可借助制图软件或地理信息系统(Geographic Information System, GIS)制作各类视觉美观、制作精良的地图。
Natural Earth 由众多志愿者协作开发,并得到北美制图信息学会(North American Cartographic Information Society, NACIS)的支持。
Natural Earth 矢量数据采用 ESRI 形状文件(ESRI shapefile)格式,这是矢量地理数据的事实标准(de facto standard)。其字符编码为 Windows-1252。
Natural Earth 矢量数据包含以下类别的地理要素:
### 文化矢量数据主题
- 国家:包含各国及主权国家的边界线与多边形要素,并附带名称属性。涵盖属地(如法属波利尼西亚)、地图单元(如美国太平洋岛屿领地)以及次国家级地图分区(如科西嘉与法国本土大陆)。
- 争议区域与分裂地区:覆盖从克什米尔到埃莱米三角、北塞浦路斯到西撒哈拉的相关区域。
- 一级行政单元(省、州、专区等):除少数极小岛屿国外,包含所有国家的内部边界与多边形要素,附带名称属性,并为部分小国提供同类统计分组。
- 居民地:带名称属性的点符号要素,涵盖首都、主要城镇,以及人口稀少区域内的重要小型城镇。在确定等级时,我们优先考量区域重要性而非人口普查数据。
- 城市多边形:基于2002-2003年MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) 卫星数据衍生而来。
- 公园与保护区:美国国家公园管理局管辖的园区。
- 太平洋国家群组:用于规整这些偏远岛屿的边界框。
- 水域边界标识:精选的关键200海里领海界限,以及部分争议、条约与中线。
### 物理矢量数据主题
- 海岸线:海洋海岸线,包含主要岛屿。海岸线与陆地、水域多边形匹配对齐。
- 陆地:包含主要岛屿的陆地多边形。
- 海洋:拆分为连续区块的海洋多边形。
- 小型岛屿:按相对重要性分为两个等级的额外小型海洋岛屿。
- 珊瑚礁:源自WDB2的主要珊瑚礁群。
- 自然地理区域要素:主要自然地理特征的多边形与点标注。
- 河流与湖泊中心线:按相对重要性分级,附带名称与线宽属性。若无需显示小型湖泊,可开启其中心线以避免出现不美观的数据缺口。
- 湖泊:按相对重要性分级,与河流分级保持协调,附带名称属性。
- 冰川区域:源自DCW的多边形要素,南极洲部分则源自MOA数据,附带主要极地冰川的名称属性。
- 南极冰架:基于2003-2004年MOA数据衍生,反映了近期冰架崩塌情况。
- 水深测绘:以0、-200、-1000、-2000、-3000、-4000、-5000、-6000、-7000、-8000、-9000和-10000米为间隔的嵌套多边形,由SRTM Plus数据创建。
- 地理线:极圈、回归线、赤道以及国际日期变更线。
- 坐标格网:1°、5°、10°、15°、20°和30°间隔的格网,包含WGS84坐标系下的边界框。
提供机构:
eAtlas
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背景概述
Natural Earth Vector (NE)是一个公共领域地图数据集,提供多种比例尺的矢量和栅格数据,适用于制图和GIS应用。数据集涵盖广泛的地理和文化特征,由国家边界、人口聚集地、水体等多种主题构成,由志愿者合作开发并得到NACIS支持。
以上内容由遇见数据集搜集并总结生成



