Natural Earth Admin1 Polygons as GeoJSON
| Files | Size | Format | Created | Updated | License | Source |
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| 1 | 111 kB | geojson | Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License v1.0 | Natural Earth |
Natural Earth Polygons for the states in the United Stated of America
Data Files
| File | Description | Size | Last modified | Download |
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admin1-us | 111 kB | data/admin1-us.geojson |
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admin1-us
Geodata data package providing geojson polygons for the states in the USA.
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.
This dataset covers the United States of America. admin1 are the biggest administrative area below the country : ie the states. See documentation for more information.
The shape of the admin1 have four fields :
- name : the common name for this admin1 subdivision
- id : Natural Earth
adm1_codefor the subdivision inside the country. Documentation is not clear what this code is, but it could be FIPS - code : the well known two letter code for the state
- country : name of the country
- ISO3166-1-Alpha-3 : three letters iso code of the country
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.