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Natural Earth
Vector Tile Hosting
Alpaca Travel offers vector tile hosting for the cultural data of natural earth to create additional interactivity with mapping based on cultural data.
Natural Earth provides a number of cultral datasets that can be used for various mapping needs. These are broken out to specific vector layers
This includes the following map data:
- Countries (Vector layer: "countries")
- State and Provinces (Vector layer: "statesprovinces")
- Timezones (Vector layer: "timezone")
Interactive Explorer
Alpaca offers an interactive explorer to review what data is visible within the vector dataset.
Feature Specification
Example of Country Properies
1{
2 "properties": {
3 "class": "place_polygon",
4 "ISO_A2": "AU",
5 "ISO_A3": "AUS",
6 "CONTINENT": "Oceania",
7 "SUBREGION": "Australia and New Zealand",
8 "REGION_WB": "East Asia & Pacific",
9 "REGION_UN": "Oceania",
10 "NAME": "Australia",
11 "FORMAL_EN": "Commonwealth of Australia",
12 "featurecla": "Admin-0 country",
13 "id": "place/naturalearth:iso-3166-1:au",
14 "label": "Australia"
15 }
16}Example of States/Provinces Properies
1{
2 "properties": {
3 "class": "place_polygon",
4 "iso_3166_2": "AU-VIC",
5 "abbrev": "Vic.",
6 "name": "Victoria",
7 "featurecla": "Admin-1 scale rank",
8 "id": "place/naturalearth:iso-3166-2:au-vic",
9 "label": "Victoria"
10 }
11}Example of Timezone Properies
1{
2 "properties": {
3 "class": "place_polygon",
4 "time_zone": "UTC+03:00",
5 "featurecla": "Timezone",
6 "id": "place/naturalearth:time-zone:utc0300",
7 "label": "UTC+03:00"
8 }
9}Adding to Mapbox
You can directly attach the ATDW products to your Mapbox map instance by adding the following style source definition.
1"tourism": {
2 "type": "vector",
3 "data": "https://mapping.withalpaca.travel/v1/set/natural_earth.tilejson?scheme=xyz&accessToken=YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN",
4 "scheme": "xyz"
5}alpaca.tech
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