Comments on: Natural Earth Released, Let the Downloads Begin!

By: Natural Earth released version 1.2

Natural Earth released version 1.2 — Thu, 27 May 2010 15:44:23 +0000

[...] and Europe that quadruple (4x) the number of lakes and rivers there. Many thanks to is given in the blog of Nathaniel Vaughn Kelso to Tom PAtterson for generalizing the vectors and Preston M. for adding [...]

By: Thomas Williams

Thomas Williams — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:00:55 +0000

Nathaniel, congrats! What a great resource!

By: Afonso de Tomás

Afonso de Tomás — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 22:40:19 +0000

Congrats for a good job.

This is very very useful

Thanks

By: Nathaniel

Nathaniel — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:15:22 +0000

Thanks everyone!

@ Donatas: Please use the Corrections system on the NaturalEarthData.com site to report errors like this. It’ll help the map update committee keep track of the edits (and our sanity). I’ve added Lithuania “Panevezy” to the system. I’ll have to research the river situation a bit more.

By: Melissa

Melissa — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:31:02 +0000

Woohoo! It’s out!

By: Bjørn Sandvik

Bjørn Sandvik — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:53:32 +0000

Congratulations. This is great news!!

By: mg

mg — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:27:34 +0000

Congratulations. It’s good to see this out there after all the hours you have all put into this.

-Martin

By: Donatas Bruzas

Donatas Bruzas — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 11:52:19 +0000

Hello, I am very happy to see it!
Two things I have noticed: a city in Lithuania “Panevezy” should be “Panevezys” (or “Panevėžys” in local form). Also it seems that you have used unprojected wgs84 when preparing shapefile of rivers. This way rivers flowing in east-west direction appear longer than in north-south. As a result minor river Neris is left instead of a more important Nemunas (which is shown only from the Baltic sea to Kaunas). A lake south of Kaunas is actually an artificial reservoir made by damming Nemunas and called “Kauno marios”. It supports the largest hydroelectric power plant in Lithuania.
Anyway this is undoubtedly the best small scale database I have ever seen.
I would like to thank you and all who made it available for all of us.