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It's available at a set of 3 different resolutions (1:10M, 1:50M, 1:110M).  Since it's vectored data, covering just a few data-types, it's quite small.  It would be quite easy to distribute Debrief with all resolutions.\r\n\r\nOnce the \"NaturalEarth\" folder is specified, Debrief would extract the relevant resolutions and data-types, putting them into a data-structure able to determine which resolution to display, then render particular datasets in specified shading.  Properties would be provided to allow users to switch data-types on and off, with some elementary formatting options.\r\n\r\nHere's a screenshot of maritime-related Natural Earth data, viewed in QGIS:\r\n![naturalearthqgis](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/1108513/5360131/4737b740-7fba-11e4-9e30-5f14e470f0cd.png)\r\n\r\nNote that the Natural Earth data doesn't come with styling (colors/line styles) so users will have to assign them, or we'll have to come up with some sensible defaults.  But, we can eye-drop the colors from the Natural Earth raster datasets - particularly for bathymetric datasets.\r\n\r\nHere is how the Natural Earth decided to style their data:\r\n![nev_10m_physical_2](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/1108513/5360160/70df3974-7fba-11e4-9434-a6b5d8799d5f.png)\r\n\r\nI've recorded some design/implementation thoughts here:\r\nhttps://github.com/debrief/debrief/wiki/Natural-Earth-background-ref-data"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/debrief/debrief/issues/comments/69264674","html_url":"https://github.com/debrief/debrief/issues/984#issuecomment-69264674","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/debrief/debrief/issues/984","id":69264674,"user":{"login":"pecko","id":534584,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/534584?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/pecko","html_url":"https://github.com/pecko","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/pecko/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/pecko/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/pecko/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/pecko/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/pecko/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/pecko/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/pecko/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/pecko/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/pecko/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-01-08T22:49:46Z","updated_at":"2015-01-08T22:49:46Z","body":"I have made a few screenshots:\r\n\r\nNE and TIF\r\n![proj1](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/534584/5672436/96c718ee-9790-11e4-8c5f-132005d06eda.png)\r\n\r\nNE (TIF hidden) - the UK border is painted correctly\r\n![proj2](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/534584/5672458/baf99afc-9790-11e4-94e1-016d6dcf7283.png)\r\n\r\nUnfortunately we still have white area with bathy zero:\r\n\r\n![proj4](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/534584/5672476/e9b4e8b0-9790-11e4-89df-730e3736d62a.png)\r\n\r\nTIF text currently (ESPG:4326 and there is *prj file)\r\n\r\n![proj5](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/534584/5672489/036ff420-9791-11e4-82b7-ab289117bcb8.png)\r\n\r\n"}}