This is an archive of the 3.0.0 release of geoBoundaries (www.geoboundaries.org), which was released on June 5 of 2020. It is provided for research replication and historical analysis.
Original release notes:
Version 3.0.0 ('Vintas'); Released 6/5/2020
- Early! Pushing a release in June, ~three months ahead of schedule.
- Dozens of new ADM2 boundaries; we now have complete coverage of all countries.
- New website (geoboundaries.org) with integrated github issue tracking.
- Now supported by peer-review! https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0231866
- API for access to data dramatically improved - now includes direct geoJSON links and data type options, plus image previews.
- New products: simplified and globally standardized
- New backend engine to support nightly builds
- Lower file sizes!
- Better simplification! Moved from shapely + geojson to shapely + topojson.
- Boundary image previews for all products.
- Comprehensive Global Administrative Zones (CGAZ) products - the entire globe at ADM0, 1, and 2.
- Updates to sources and metadata on a number of files.