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license_name: public-domain-and-cc0-1.0
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  https://huggingface.co/datasets/Freonius/jerome-maps/blob/main/README.md#licences
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language:
  - en
tags:
  - maps
  - gazetteer
  - natural-earth
  - wikidata
  - jerome
pretty_name: Jerome's world map

Jerome's world map

The world map of the Jerome writing app, which downloads these three files once and shows the map offline: the countries, regions, rivers, lakes, towns, major roads and railways of Natural Earth, its shaded relief, and a place search over the settlements of Wikidata with an English name. There are no streets. Jerome pins each file by this repository's commit, its size and its SHA-256.

File What it is
world.pmtiles Natural Earth 5.1.2 as vector tiles (Mapbox Vector Tile 2, gzipped), zooms 0–7, in a PMTiles v3 archive; 1:110m at zooms 0–1, 1:50m at 2–3, 1:10m from 4
relief.pmtiles Natural Earth's shaded relief (1:10m, the smaller size) as 256-pixel JPEG tiles, zooms 0–6, Web Mercator, in a PMTiles v3 archive
gazetteer.tsv.gz About 1.3 million settlements from Wikidata with an English name and coordinates, each with its country, region and population, as gzipped tab-separated text sorted by a folded key (the format is in Jerome's crates/maps/README.md)

Layers of world.pmtiles

rank is a whole number, lower for the more important, from Natural Earth's scale and label ranks. Names are English (Natural Earth's NAME_EN, else its NAME). A feature appears from the zoom Natural Earth gives it; zoom 7 holds them all.

Layer What Properties From zoom
water Oceans and seas – 0
land Land, islands included – 0
lakes Lakes and reservoirs name 0
urban Urban areas – 2
rivers Rivers and lake centre lines name, rank 0
regions Boundaries of first-level divisions (states, provinces, regions) – 2
countries Boundaries between countries on land: kind country, or disputed for any other line kind 0
roads Major roads: kind major (highways, beltways, expressways) or secondary; no ferries kind 3
railways Railways; no train ferries – 4
region_labels A point for each first-level division's name name, rank 2
country_labels A point for each country's name name, rank 0
places Cities and towns: capital 2 for a country's capital, 1 for a region's, else 0 name, rank, capital 0

How it is made

Jerome's scripts/build-world-map.ts builds the three files from inputs pinned, with their sizes and checksums, in Jerome's sources.lock.json and mirrored in Freonius/jerome-sources: Natural Earth's GeoJSON from nvkelso/natural-earth-vector at the release's commit, the shaded relief from naciscdn.org, and the answers of QLever's Wikidata endpoint to the queries in Jerome's packages/map-data/queries/. The tiles are cut with geojson-vt and encoded with vt-pbf; the archives and the relief are written by Jerome's own map-tool.

Licences

  • Natural Earth vectors and rasters are in the public domain; no permission is needed to use them. Made with Natural Earth. Free vector and raster map data @ naturalearthdata.com.
  • Wikidata's data is available under CC0 1.0. Place names from Wikidata.