Natural Earth vector layers#

natural-earth-vectors · theme boundaries · live

Public-domain cartographic vectors at 1:10m, 1:50m, and 1:110m: lakes, rivers, coastline, land and ocean, glaciated areas, populated places, boundary lines, and more, read by layer name.

import easysnowdata as esd

aoi = (-121.94, 46.72, -121.54, 46.99)   # Mount Rainier
natural_earth_gdf = esd.boundaries.natural_earth.load(aoi)

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Every route to this product is open. Nothing to set up.

Sources#

source

provider

credentials

resolution

extent

temporal

latency

notes

natural-earth (default)

vector_http

none

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global

static (v5.1.1; a few layers 5.0.0)

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one zipped shapefile per layer and scale, cached on first use

Where each route points#

natural-earth — Natural Earth live

https://naciscdn.org/naturalearth/<scale>/<category>/ne_<scale>_<layer>.zip

Provenance#

Licence · Public domain

Cite the data as

Natural Earth. Free vector and raster map data @ naturalearthdata.com.

Documentation

Loader · easysnowdata.boundaries.natural_earth.load