Use Natural Earth dataset for map background ¶

Date	2011/11/20
Contact(s)	François Prunayre.
Last edited	2011/11/20
Status	CFV
Assigned to release	2.7.0
Resources	Available
Ticket #	#230

Overview ¶

In default data provided, the country layer is pretty old and needs an update since 2.5.x series (#230). This proposal suggest to move to Natural Earth datasets (​http://www.naturalearthdata.com/) for the coastline and country layers.

Proposal Type ¶

• Type: Background layer
• App: GeoServer data
• Module: Map Interface

Links ¶

• Documents:
• Email discussions:
• Other wiki discussions:

Voting History ¶

• Vote proposed by Francois on 2011/11/20, result +1 Jeroen, Emanuele, Patrizia, Francois

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Proposal ¶

Natural Earth data are used with a less "aggressive" styling (the yellow border) with blue coastline, white borders and dashed borders in disputed areas

In classic UI ¶

In widgets UI ¶

Backwards Compatibility Issues ¶

New libraries added ¶

Natural Earth datasets (instead of not really known sources - probably FAO).

Risks ¶

Participants ¶

• François Prunayre