diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG new file mode 100644 index 00000000..51d5f2ad --- /dev/null +++ b/CHANGELOG @@ -0,0 +1,308 @@ +2011-08-19: 1.4.0 +- Full details: http://www.naturalearthdata.com/blog/natural-earth-version-1-4-release-notes/ + +- NOTE: Over 65 files have changed in version 1.4 of Natural Earth. +- NEW: Sovereign country of South Sudan independence on July 2011. +- CHANGED: South Sudan and Sudan's administrative level-1 units have also been refreshed. +- NOTE: The disputed Sudan and South Sudan area of Abyei is retained. +- NEW: Panama and Papua New Guinea back to separate countries. They were accidentally + merged into a super country in some admin-0 files for the 1.3.0 release. +- NEW: 50m admin-1 states and provinces now includes version with lakes punched out. +- NEW: The 10m admin-1 file now includes a “scale rank” exploded version. +- CHANGED: A lake south of Kaunas on the Nemunas river has been recoded as an artificial + reservoir named “Kauno marios”. +- CHANGED: Rivers, 10m - Database structure changes: Name1 is now Name, Name2 is now + Name_alt Attribute changes: Several dozen missing strokes weights were + corrected, 1/2 dozen scaleRanks. One new mystery river segment. +- CHANGED: 1. The stream marked as the Parana in Argentina has been renamed: the lower + stretch is the lower portion of the remains Parana, then the Paraguay upstream + from the confluence of the Paraguay and Parana. Then Cuiaba upstream from its + confluence with the Paraguay, on up to the source. +- CHANGED: The Angara, a tributary of the Yenisey river, in Russia was at a scale rank 2 + while it’s parent was scale rank 4. +- CHANGED: Upper section of the James River is the Cowpasture River. +- CHANGED: South Branch of the Potomac, near its source, edited to add wiggle that + matches National Atlas. +- CHANGED: La Grand Riviere in Canada name fix. +- CHANGED: RivNum 22874 renamed Pahsimeroi river +- CHANGED: The Palouse river headwaters extended to Idaho +- CHANGED: The Grand Ronde is likewise shorter than National Atlas suggests, starting a + bit farther south than marked. +- CHANGED: Similkameen river edited to match with the 10m Admin-1 vectors and branch off + from the Okanogan at Oroville, WA, and then proceed west & north into Canada, + where it remains. +- CHANGED: Where the Snake River joins the Columbia River, part of the path of the + Columbia was marked as the Snake. +- CHANGED: Sweden river funk: ‘Dallven’ instead of the correct ‘Dalälven‘. A few others + like that, need more clarification. via Graham Asher +- CHANGED: IJssel river in Netherlands was incorrectly named Irrawaddy via Nathaniel +- NEW: North America Rivers supplement - Database structure changes: Name1 is now + Name, Name2 is now Name_alt Removed River, abbreviated Creek, North, South, + East, West, Branch, etc. in the Name column to make consistent with the basic + Rivers theme. Preserved the original in Name_full. +- CHANGED: River names in U.S. desert south west. via Daniel Huffman, below: +- CHANGED: The Marias River, a tributary of the Missouri in Montana, is listed as the + “Marais” in the Natural Earth dataset. +- CHANGED: Upper portion of the stream marked as the “Maury River” (tributary to the + James in Virginia) is the Calfpasure River, which joins the Little Calfpasture + River a bit southeast of Goshen to form the Maury. +- CHANGED: Rivnum 23000 is the San Pedro River. The Natural Earth line appears to give a + source just inside the US, but the National Atlas line has a source in Mexico. +- CHANGED: Rivnum 22432 is San Cristobal Wash. +- CHANGED: Rivnum 22467 is Centennial Wash +- CHANGED: Rivnum 22474 is the Hassayampa River, headwaters extended north. +- CHANGED: Rivnum 22435 is San Simon Creek. +- CHANGED: Rivernum 22453 & 22997 appear to correspond to the Santa Cruz River. Renamed + and extended headwaters south and cut the northern section so it drains to + flats instead of the Gila river. +- CHANGED: 22525 is Santa Maria River & Sycamore Creek +- CHANGED: 22534 is Big Sandy River +- CHANGED: 22550 is Trout Creek +- CHANGED: 22676 is Meadow Valley Wash +- CHANGED: 22533 is Carrizo Creek & Carrizo Wash +- CHANGED: 22506 is Largo Creek +- CHANGED: 22549 is Puerco River +- CHANGED: 22596 is Chinle Creek & Chinle Wash +- CHANGED: 22584 is Chaco River & Chaco Wash +- NEW: Europe rivers supplement Database structure changes: Name1 is now Name, Name2 + is now Name_alt +- CHANGED: Marine label areas - Now includes French names for most features. Corrections + for Helodranon’ Antongila to Antongila Bay. Karskiye Vorota Strait looses + Vorota as that already means Straight. +- CHANGED: Graticules at 10m, 50m, 110m now have reasonable ScaleRank values. +- CHANGED: Geographic lines at 10m, 50m, and 110m demotes the pre 1995 date line segment + down to 100, giving Null Island company. Display column has been removed, Name + column added with shorter version of the old Display name. Name_Long contains + that former column, but renamed in keeping with current Natural Earth + practices. Also, Abbrev column added for short names. Note now contains the + “1995 Kiribati adjustment” and the like, including: “Any given day starts here + and progresses west, with yesterday nipping at its heals.” And a FeatureClass + column to bring into alignment with Natural Earth current practices. +- CHANGED: The South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands were missing the words + South Sandwich. +- NEW: Sint Maarten is a adm_0 country. +- CHANGED: Admin-0 maritime boundaries, 10m - Corrected the maritime boundary between + Maine and New Brunswick. +- CHANGED: Admin-1 polygons and lines, 10m - Small portion of the Rhode + Island/Massachusetts boundary was missing in the NEV databases. The portion + in question was the part of Rhode Island that lies on the mainland, just east + of the Sakonnet River and the city of Newport, and just south of Fall + River, MA. +- CHANGED: All US state boundary fixes: R.I.-Mass., Va.-N.C. now bends south in the + middle., Del.-Penn. boundary bends differently., Tenn.-Ala.-Ga.-Miss., + Kan.-Col., Neb.-Co., Neb.-Wy., S.D.-Wy., S.D.-Mont., N.D.-Mont., Iowa-Mo., + Modify the DC shape a bit to better match more detailed zooms and remove part + of the adm-1 line on the shore. +- CHANGED: The ADM1NAME Ãstfold corrected to Østfold. +- CHANGED: Zhejiang – Should be labeled as the Cocos (Keeling) Islands. Is part of + Australia. RENAMED Niue – Is not part of Australia, but independent. + Associated with New Zealand. DELETED as admin-1 units are not shown for small + countries. Kerguelen Islands are part of France DELETED as admin-1 units are + not shown for small countries. +- CHANGED: Niassa Province in Mozambique is incorrectly spelled as ‘Nassa’. ‘Niassa’ is + there as a varname, but the province has never been called ‘Nassa’. +- CHANGED: Populated places (10m, 50m and 110m) - Norwegian cities, in whole related to + the special characters æ, ø and å. The following corrections should be made: + Baerum -> Bærum, Svolvaer -> Svolvær, Tonsberg -> Tønsberg and + Vadso -> Vadsø. +- CHANGED: Baguio City in the Philippines is still the defacto summer location of the + supreme court (judiciary branch of government), a similar situation as Chile + and a couple other countries, but is now coded as “Admin-0 cap alt”. However, + Quezon City and Pasay City are downgraded from Admin-0 capital alt to + “Populated place” as the recent constitution states that the entire admin-1 + unit of Manila is the national capital and they fall inside that feature. +- CHANGED: The place name Wiener Neustadt in Austria (that is the proper name of the + city) had the wrong NAME attribute “Wiener”. +- CHANGED: Across the Mekong from Nakhon Phanom (Thailand), Natural Earth has a + settlement marked “Khammouan” in Laos. Khammouan(e) is the name of a province. + The actual city across the river appears to be the capital of said province, + Thakhek. +- CHANGED: San Carlos moved east out of Lake Nicaragua. +- CHANGED: Primarily in Iran, Egypt, and Lebanon. “Name in NEV” >> “Should be”: + Dayr az Zawr >> Dayr az Azwr, Khoramabad >> Khorramabad, + Shahr E Kord >> Shar e Kord, Zagizig >> Zagazig, Damanhr >> Damanhur, + Nabatiyet et Tahta >> Nabatiye et Tahta +- CHANGED: Greeneville, NC should be Greenville, NC +- CHANGED: Two point features labeled Bayankhongor in Mongolia. Kept the ’southern’ + point, delete the northern one. Southern feature featureType changed to + “Admin-1 cap”. + + +2011-01-31: 1.3.0 +- Full details: http://www.naturalearthdata.com/blog/natural-earth-version-1-3-release-notes/ + +- Almost 10 new files or packages have been introduced in this release. +- The majority of files (171 out of 197) have changed with minor to large edits. +- Unless otherwise noted: Topology and extent (vector) or georeferencing (raster) changes. +- NEW: Natural Earth quick start kit provides small sample of the themes styled in + an ArcMap .MXD document (read more at the Esri Mapping Center soon) + and in a QGIS document. +- CHANGED: Added 4 versions of Cross Blended Hypso without Shaded Relief from 1.2.1 release +- CHANGED: All TIFs are now GeoTIFs with projection and cell size, registration points baked in. +- CHANGED: All TIFs a Readme files have been added to all. +- CHANGED: All TIFs a few files that had .tfw.txt are now just .tfw. +- CHANGED: All TIFs a few corrupt header files have been fixed. +- CHANGED: Lakes - added Puma Yumco lake in Tibet on the Chinese border with Bhutan. +- NEW: Pluvial 10m lake theme for prehistoric water bodies starting with the Great + Basin area of the United States and can grow to include more features. +- CHANGED: Historic lakes include a more precise Aral Sea and now includes Lake Texcoco + at Mexico City, circa 1500. +- CHANGED: Modified river and lake center lines and scale ranks for 10m North + America supplement. +- CHANGED: Modified river and lake center lines and scale ranks for 10m Europe + river supplement. +- CHANGED: Many corrections in the 10m Rivers theme. +- CHANGED: Land label areas now clip North America, Europe, and Asia to 50 km to + shoreline to promote more realistic auto labeling. Other changes. +- CHANGED: Label points and elevation points changed. +- CHANGED: Geographic lines: Added new Kiribati date line extension (and clipped to ±180 + ±90 bounding box). +- CHANGED: Parks: Two new U.S. National Park Service units added as the system expands + to 384 total. Data fields updated so Name can be used for labels and UnitName + is the official park name. +- CHANGED: Populated places: Fix handful of city issues in all scales. +- NEW: New countries: The Netherlands Antilles was dissolved in October 2010 and two + new countries (Sint Maarten and Curaçao) were created out of part of the + former territory, with the remaining islands devolved back to Netherlands as + top-level, overseas administrative units of that country. Aruba remains a + country. +- WARNING: A troubleshooting country has been added with an Indeterminate sovereignty + class called Null Island +- NEW: New map units: New United Kingdom subdivisions for England, Scotland, Wales, + Northern Ireland in 110m to match the 50m and 10m versions. +- CHANGED: Pacific grouping lines adjusted to snap to 1° increments. The 110m version + receives the same PacGroup column as the 50m version. +- CHANGED: Tiny countries: Ascension island moved to correct location nearer Africa north + of St. Helena from erroneous position on South Georgia I. in 50m and 110m + files. Adm0_A3 codes adjusted and moved to their own self titled column. +- CHANGED: Other admin_0 housekeeping and improvements. +- CHANGED: Added and revised some adm-0 maritime indicator lines. Moved Aland land + boundary line to maritime indicator (and added one between Aland and mainland) +- CHANGED: Admin-1 all scales now include Abbreviation (US, Canada, partial UK) and + shorter 2 to 3 digit “postal” codes to ease labeling (US, Canada, Mexico, + Australia. Guessed at rest based on HASC/ISO codes). +- CHANGED: Admin-1 there is some indication provided when to alternate these based on + labelRank and scaleRank. +- CHANGED: Admin01 region coding has also been provided for UK and US, could expand in + the future (address inconsistency in France and Italy in particular where + Natural Earth continues to show admin 1 regions rather than departments). +- CHANGED: States and provinces (both polygons and lines) now have correct ADM0_A3 codes + and use the same MAP_COLOR column as the adm-0 in all scale sets. +- NEW: Due to popular demand, a new supplementary version of the adm_1 polygons are + provided with large lakes erased +- CHANGED: Added SameAsCity column to indicate if the label should be placed only at a + certain natural scale since the adm-1 name is the same (or very similar) to + the adm-1 capital populated place point label. +- CHANGED: Added scale ranking to adm-1 lines so they can appear in tandem with the polys. +- CHANGED: Countries with notable admin-1 changes: Algeria, Australia, Bangladesh, + Belgium, Bhutan, China, Croatia, Congo, Cyprus, Denmark, Djibouti, Ethiopia, + Fiji, Finland, Germany, Israel, Guinea, India, Italy, Ivory Coast, Japan, + Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Macedonia, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New + Zealand, Nigeria, Northern Cyprus, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Paupa New Guinea, + Peru, Philippines, Poland, Russia, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Slovenia, Solomon + Islands, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Tanzania, Tanzania, + Trinidad, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United Kingdom, Vanuatu, + Vietnam, Yemen +- CHANGED: Merge sliver polygons and island polys with their larger parent polygon: + Costa Rica, Croatia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Estonia, Greece, Haiti, + Ireland, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Norway, Panama, Russia, Slovenia, Slovenia, Spain +- REMOVED: Deletions on a country basis: Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Northern Cyprus, + Martinique and French Guiana arrondissements merged. +- ADDED: Added missing adm-1 lines: Cyprus, Denmark, Germany, India, Israel, Mexico, + Rwanda, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, Syria, Yemen +- REMOVED: Removed adm-1 lines: Guinea, Iraq, Martinique and French Guiana, Nigeria, Others +- ADDED: Added many adm-1 maritme indicators as new “Adm-1 boundary water indicator” + feature class: Croatia, Denmark, Netherlands, Multiple other countries, + Southeast Asia island nations (Indonesia and Philippines in particular) + remain outstanding., +- CHANGED: Adm-1 gaps: Closed a few inside polygon “donut holes” adm_1 lines that didn’t + have coincidental start-end points: Germany to Mongolia, Panama to Australia + and Yemen. Ethiopia. Taiwan. Others. + + +2010-10-25: 1.2.1 +- Full details: http://www.naturalearthdata.com/blog/miscellaneous/new-cross-blended-hypso-without-shaded-relief/ + +- NEW: Added Cross Blended Hypso without Shaded Relief + + +2010-05-25: 1.2.0 +- Full details: http://www.naturalearthdata.com/blog/miscellaneous/natural-earth-version-1-2-release-notes/ + +- NEW: Supplementary hydrography rivers in North America (4x number of 1.1 rivers) + via CEC North American Environmental Atlas (CEC NAEA). +- NEW: Supplementary hydrography lakes in North America (4x number of 1.1 rivers) + via CEC NAEA. +- NEW: Supplementary hydrography rivers in Europe (4x number of 1.1 rivers) + via European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) +- NEW: Supplementary hydrography lakes in Europe (4x number of 1.1 rivers) + via EC JRC +- NEW: Roads in North America via CEC NAEA. +- NEW: Railroads in North America via CEC NAEA. +- NEW: Supplementary roads in North America via XNR Productions. + + +2010-03-15: 1.1.1 +- Full details: http://www.naturalearthdata.com/blog/miscellaneous/version-1-1-release-notes/ + +- NEW: Corrects the name of the 50m cultural `50m_admin_0_countries` file by adding the missing `r`. + + +2010-03-01: 1.1.0 +- Full details: http://www.naturalearthdata.com/blog/miscellaneous/version-1-1-release-notes/ + +- NEW: National Parks for the United States of America. +- NEW: Landscan urban polygons (masks for population extraction out of original + LandScan data). +- REMOVED: admin 0 marine boundary lines. The indicator lines are still there. +- CHANGED: 10m, 50m, 110m populated places new towns being added, 30m selection created, + various corrections, now include geonames.org IDs, bounding boxes from the + landscan data, and historical populations for 500 mega cities. +- NEW: 10m, 50m, 110m populated places - As this triples the file size, a new + “simple” version is also available with the updates, but not the full + attributes. +- CHANGED: 50m and 110m Admin 0 and admin-1 get better country names and thematic codes, + including slight reranking of some units and link out to the Correlates of War + database (cShapes). +- CHANGED: 50m and 110m Admin 0 and admin-1 in 10m are rebuilt to fix coastline offset + and overlaps and gaps between countries and state/province lines. +- CHANGED: 10m, 50m, 110m Geographic label points for peaks and summits. Now spun off + into separate feature class. +- CHANGED: 110m country boundaries, missing countries, added missing mid-range islands. + Includes Caspian sea and admin-0 scale ranks. +- CHANGED: All files names now use “_” underscore instead of “-” in filename for better + compatibility with ArcMap. +- CHANGED: Handful of file name changes for consistency. +- CHANGED: 10m Rivers and lakes. A couple names, fixed the scaleRanks to show as integers + rather than strings. +- CHANGED: 10m, 50m Updated the geographic areas marine names (Indonesia straight). +- CHANGED: 10m, 50m Updated the geographic areas polys names (Seward Penn, Alaska). +- CHANGED: 10m coastline updates for Venice. Same for land and ocean. +- CHANGED: 10m bathymetry updates for several island mounts. +- CHANGED: 10m Antarctic ice shelves, now includes ice shelf names. +- CHANGED: 10m glaciated areas: names cleaned up, feature class column filled in. +- CHANGED: 10m, 50m, 110m WGS84 bounding box has more point to aid in reprojecting as a + linearized curve. +- CHANGED: Fixed TWF extent on the raster imagery to improve import into popular open + source GIS packages. +- CHANGED: 50m ocean can now project into web Mercator. +- CHANGED: 110m all cultural and most physical themes now inside the +/- 180, +/- 90 + bounding box. + + +2010-01-09: 1.0.1 +- Full details: http://www.naturalearthdata.com/blog/miscellaneous/raster-imagery-1-0-1-released/ + +- CHANGE: The 10m raster data now fits perfectly within the ±180, ±90 bounding box. +- CHANGE: The 50m raster data now fits perfectly within the ±180, ±90 bounding box. +- CHANGE: The 10m raster data TFW files are updated. +- CHANGE: The 50m raster data TFW files are updated. + + +2009-12-02: 1.0.0 +- Initial release! +- Full details: http://www.naturalearthdata.com/blog/miscellaneous/let-the-downloads-begin/ + + +2009-10-00: 0.0.0 +- Announced and demo'd at NACIS mapping conference in Sacramento, CA \ No newline at end of file