[Xastir-dev] natural earth replacement for worldhi.map ?

[Tom Russo]

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> hi dev gang,
> 
> Has anyone looked at the licensing for Natural Earth data to see if it's
> "redistribute with xastir" compatible?
> 
> https://www.naturalearthdata.com/about/terms-of-use/

er... yes.  See issue #152 on github:

https://github.com/Xastir/Xastir/issues/152

We're talking about exactly that.

> "All versions of Natural Earth raster + vector map data found on this
> > website are in the public domain. "
> 
> 
> and
> 
> "No permission is needed to use Natural Earth. Crediting the authors is
> > unnecessary."
> 
> 
> They go on to list data sources and releases from those sources.
> 
> 
> I'm looking at the data and it looks like a few of the 110m scale files
> will more or less replicates worldhi. I need to download a few more files
> to see if there's some water data, but their server seems to be down at the
> moment.

They are also on github:
https://github.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector

> I've started on some dbfawks to de-monochrome it a bit, but thought I'd get
> your opinion on license compatibility before I wasted much time on it.

The license appears completely compatible, since they explicitly say it's
public domain and they don't even need us to attribute the data.

Awesome that you want to start working on the dbfawks.  Please join the
discussion in the issue report, and when you have something worth looking
at, submit a pull request.  That would be incredibly helpful.

> PS unrelated, the 10m data looks interesting too (not for inclusion as a
> worldhi replacement, just as a map base), but making good use of them will
> be some dbfawk development.

Yep.  Looks like a great resource for shapefile maps at various scales to add
to the suggested data sources.  


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Tom Russo    KM5VY
Tijeras, NM  

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