DATA SOURCE cities10000eu.shp:
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Downloaded from www.geonames.org
http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/cities1000.zip

Loaded into PostGIS and exported to shapefile (UTF-8 encoding), 
European cities with population > 10000 only

The dataset is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
For details see included file "Creative_Commons_Legal_Code.txt".



DATA SOURCE country.shp and rivers.shp
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Sample shapefile data taken from CD-ROM 'ESRI Data & Maps'

DCW, ArcWorld Supplement; 
License:
Public domain data from U.S. government are freely 
distributable with proper source attribution or metadata. 

Country and capital localized names from www.geonames.org
(Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License)



DATA SOURCE RASTER DATA:
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National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC): http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov
* 3 arc-minute grid
  ftp://ftp.ngdc.noaa.gov/GLOBE_DEM/pictures/GLOBALeb3colshade.jpg
  
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NEW in v4:
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localized country and capital names for country shapefile 
for various languages (EN, DE, IT, FR, BR, ES)