Am 17.07.2021 um 11:53 schrieb Bruce Horrocks
: On 16 Jul 2021, at 20:55, Hans Hagen
wrote: On 7/15/2021 10:30 PM, Bruce Horrocks wrote:
On 15 Jul 2021, at 18:58, Hans Hagen
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