[FEATURE] Built-in Natural Earth profile
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msbarry commented
It would be cool to include a profile showcasing all of the vector layers available in Natural Earth
Some issues I ran into prototyping this:
- Need to use Natural Earth shapefile instead of sqlite (and deprecate sqlite one since it's redundant) since some data only exists in the shapefile distribution (i.e. bathymetry)
- Shapefile reader only supports a single .shp file inside a zip, but natural earth is distributed as many .shp files in a single zip file. There's some debug data in there too so need a way to filter to only some .shp files.
- Shapefile reader needs to support configurable charsets (Natural Earth uses UTF-8)
- Some named polygons (i.e. Physical Labels) are useless in MapLibre, they need to be converted to centerlines (#13) or centroid labels to be useful
- Visvalingham-Wyatt simplification would produce better results simplifying geometries at lower zoom levels
rene-mueller commented
@wipfli can you possibly help with bathymetry for example?
rene-mueller commented
msbarry commented
Good point. If all you want is bathymetry this is pretty straightforward.