Description

Geodata data package providing geojson polygons for all the world's countries. Perfect for use in apps and visualizations.

Data

The data comes from Natural Earth, a community effort to make visually pleasing, well-crafted maps with cartography or GIS software at small scale.

The shape of the countries have two fields :

• name : the common name for the country
• ISO3166-1-Alpha-3 : three letters iso code of the country

More info about countries can be get from datapackage https://github.com/datasets/country-codes by a join on field ISO3166-1-Alpha-3

Preparation

To run the script in order to update the data : see scripts README

License

All data is licensed under the Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License.

Note that the original data from Natural Earth is public domain. While no credit is formally required a link back or credit to Natural Earth, Lexman and the Open Knowledge Foundation is much appreciated.

All source code is licenced under the MIT licence.