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2017-10-15: 4.0.0
- Many thanks to the over 50 people who contributed to the v4 release of Natural Earth, we couldn't do it without you! Jeremy, @raffam, @pnorman, @mojodna, @imresamu, Hannes, Axel, @pinakographo, @CaucasusandMercury, @jschleuss, Martha, Kuba, Jesús, Arkadiy, Philip, Benedikt, Ivor, @almccon, Jacob, Alice, Geoffrey, @ajmas, @instantdelay, Matt, Daniel, Felix, @karimbahgat, @migurski, Olaf, @mvexel, @yaph, Jessica, @kernc, Quentin, Peter, @xangregg, Roland, Rob, @teahan36, @dgddgd, @dkerkow, Graham, Michel, @dshorthouse, @pinakographos, Alain, Aileen, Daniel, Charles, Martin, Aaron, MattA, StephenE, NathanielD, and others.
- Many thanks to the over 50 people who contributed to the v4 release of Natural Earth,
we couldn't do it without you! Jeremy, @raffam, @pnorman, @mojodna, @imresamu, Hannes,
Axel, @pinakographo, @CaucasusandMercury, @jschleuss, Martha, Kuba, Jesús, Arkadiy,
Philip, Benedikt, Ivor, @almccon, Jacob, Alice, Geoffrey, @ajmas, @instantdelay, Matt,
Daniel, Felix, @karimbahgat, @migurski, Olaf, @mvexel, @yaph, Jessica, @kernc, Quentin,
Peter, @xangregg, Roland, Rob, @teahan36, @dgddgd, @dkerkow, Graham, Michel,
@dshorthouse, @pinakographos, Alain, Aileen, Daniel, Charles, Martin, Aaron, MattA,
StephenE, NathanielD, Aron, Lou, and others.
GENERAL
1) The v4 series introduces significant changes to admin-0 country shapes to account for the disputed area of Crimea, and several important admin-0 country name changes like Czechia renamed from Czech Republic. Admin-0 population and GDP values have also been updated to 2016/2017 vintage (primarily from CIA World Factbook).
2) The v4 series introduces web map optimized min_zoom, min_label, max_label properties that compliment the existing scalerank property that was originally curated for print cartography in proper projection glory. The min_zoom property is optimized for the web Mercator projection we are collectively hallucinating, and the min_label and max_label properties are optional on some themes when the label should be displayed later than the feature's geometry (or should stop showing). Fixes: #200, #202.
3) While the v3 series went full UTF-8 unicode (character encoding) language support a few errors were made along the way. v4 fixes bad Windows-1252 to UTF-8 conversion bugs. We also better document with the character encoding by adding a .cpg file to shapefile, and on the Natural Earth website documentation. Fixes #89, #186, 4RUN1M5S75; thanks Jeremy and @pnorman.
4) We added French names for marine areas way back in v1.4.0, and v4 adds many thousand more for populated places in the following languages: name_en, name_de, name_es, name_fr, name_pt, name_ru, name_zh. The existing name, name_alt, and nameascii fields have been updated, and name features over 600 labels with accent marks (versus the 80 or so that were garbled in the v3 series).
1) The v4 series introduces significant changes to admin-0 country shapes to account for
the disputed area of Crimea, and several important admin-0 country name changes like
Czechia renamed from Czech Republic. Admin-0 population and GDP values have also been
updated to 2016/2017 vintage (primarily from CIA World Factbook).
2) The v4 series introduces web map optimized min_zoom, min_label, max_label properties
that compliment the existing scalerank property that was originally curated for print
cartography in proper projection glory. The min_zoom property is optimized for the web
Mercator projection we are collectively hallucinating, and the min_label and max_label
properties are optional on some themes when the label should be displayed later than
the feature's geometry (or should stop showing). Fixes: #200, #202.
3) While the v3 series went full UTF-8 unicode (character encoding) language support a few
errors were made along the way. v4 fixes bad Windows-1252 to UTF-8 conversion bugs. We
also better document with the character encoding by adding a .cpg file to shapefile,
and on the Natural Earth website documentation. Fixes #89, #186, 4RUN1M5S75; thanks
Jeremy and @pnorman.
4) We added French names for marine areas way back in v1.4.0, and v4 adds many thousand
more for populated places in the following languages: name_en, name_de, name_es,
name_fr, name_pt, name_ru, name_zh. The existing name, name_alt, and nameascii fields
have been updated, and name features over 600 labels with accent marks (versus the 80
or so that were garbled in the v3 series).
PACKAGES
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2009-10-00: 0.0.0
- NOTE: Announced and demo'd at NACIS mapping conference in Sacramento, CA
- NOTE: Announced and demo'd at NACIS mapping conference in Sacramento, CA

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You've found the right place!
#What's here
# What's here
* Version 1.2, released tk
* Version 1.3, released tk
* Version 1.4, released tk
* Version 2.0.0, June 2012 tk
#Missing
# Missing
* Version 1.0, initial release tk
* Version 1.1, released tk
#&etc
# &etc
Note the Natural Earth project switched to Semantic Versioning in 2012 with the 2.0.0 release. See the main project readme for details.
Note the Natural Earth project switched to Semantic Versioning in 2012 with the 2.0.0 release. See the main project readme for details.