Evidence-backed facts
- Natural Earth documents public-domain cultural, physical, raster, and vector map datasets at documented scales and download locations. informative
- Public reads do not grant boundary, cartographic, jurisdictional, territorial, attribution, or Natural Earth editorial authority. informative
- Clients must bind dataset family, scale, theme, layer, version, geometry type, archive, projection, and update state. informative
- Cartographic datasets are generalized, scale-specific, editorial, and sometimes disputed and do not prove legal boundaries, sovereignty, address accuracy, ownership, or current ground conditions. informative