> Am 17.07.2021 um 11:53 schrieb Bruce Horrocks <n...@scorecrow.com>: > > > >> On 16 Jul 2021, at 20:55, Hans Hagen <j.ha...@xs4all.nl> wrote: >> >> On 7/15/2021 10:30 PM, Bruce Horrocks wrote: >>> On 15 Jul 2021, at 18:58, Hans Hagen <j.ha...@xs4all.nl> wrote: >>>> >>>> I was wondering about that too. I admit that I looked into maps years ago >>>> but never could find quality data files. >>> Does this help? >>> <https://www.naturalearthdata.com> >> i was halfway writing as reader for that fiel format when i noticed that is >> is also quite low res so i gave up on that and started playing (extending) >> with an more interesting alternative that mojca and i wrote years ago at a >> meeting > > Off the top of my head I'm not aware of any higher resolution sources of > global data - what scale were you thinking of?
Can you work with OpenStreetMap data? https://planet.openstreetmap.org http://download.geofabrik.de https://download.bbbike.org/osm/ I didn’t find excerpts that only have e.g. country borders or rivers. But with usual XML tools you could extract those. Hraban ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
