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