Natural Earth

Natural Earth

Vector Tile Hosting

Alpaca Travel offers vector tile hosting for the cultural data of natural earth to create additional interactivity with mapping based on cultural data.

Natural Earth provides a number of cultral datasets that can be used for various mapping needs. These are broken out to specific vector layers

This includes the following map data:

• Countries (Vector layer: "countries")
• State and Provinces (Vector layer: "statesprovinces")
• Timezones (Vector layer: "timezone")

Interactive Explorer

Alpaca offers an interactive explorer to review what data is visible within the vector dataset.

Interactive Explorer

Feature Specification

Example of Country Properies

{
  "properties": {
    "class": "place_polygon",
    "ISO_A2": "AU",
    "ISO_A3": "AUS",
    "CONTINENT": "Oceania",
    "SUBREGION": "Australia and New Zealand",
    "REGION_WB": "East Asia & Pacific",
    "REGION_UN": "Oceania",
    "NAME": "Australia",
    "FORMAL_EN": "Commonwealth of Australia",
    "featurecla": "Admin-0 country",
    "id": "place/naturalearth:iso-3166-1:au",
    "label": "Australia"
  }
}

Example of States/Provinces Properies

{
  "properties": {
    "class": "place_polygon",
    "iso_3166_2": "AU-VIC",
    "abbrev": "Vic.",
    "name": "Victoria",
    "featurecla": "Admin-1 scale rank",
    "id": "place/naturalearth:iso-3166-2:au-vic",
    "label": "Victoria"
  }
}

Example of Timezone Properies

{
  "properties": {
    "class": "place_polygon",
    "time_zone": "UTC+03:00",
    "featurecla": "Timezone",
    "id": "place/naturalearth:time-zone:utc0300",
    "label": "UTC+03:00"
  }
}

Adding to Mapbox

You can directly attach the ATDW products to your Mapbox map instance by adding the following style source definition.

"tourism": {
  "type": "vector",
  "data": "https://mapping.withalpaca.travel/v1/set/natural_earth.tilejson?scheme=xyz&accessToken=YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN",
  "scheme": "xyz"
}