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1) The v4 series introduces significant changes to admin-0 country shapes to account for the disputed area of Crimea, and several important admin-0 country name changes like Czechia renamed from Czech Republic. Admin-0 population and GDP values have also been updated to 2016/2017 vintage (primarily from CIA World Factbook).
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2) The v4 series introduces web map optimized min_zoom, min_label, max_label properties that compliment the existing scalerank property that was originally curated for print cartography in proper projection glory. The min_zoom property is optimized for the web Mercator projection we are collectively hallucinating, and the min_label and max_label properties are optional on some themes when the label should be displayed later than the feature's geometry (or should stop showing). Fixes: #200, #202.
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3) While the v3 series went full UTF-8 unicode (character encoding) language support a few errors were made along the way. v4 fixes bad Windows-1252 to UTF-8 conversion bugs. We also better document with the character encoding by adding a .cpg file to shapefile, and on the Natural Earth website documentation. Fixes #89, #186, 4RUN1M5S75; thanks Jeremy and @pnorman.
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4) We added French names for marine areas way back in v1.4.0, and v4 adds many thousand more for populated places in the following languages: name_en, name_de, name_es, name_fr, name_pt, name_ru, name_zh. The existing name, name_alt, and nameascii fields have been updated, and name features over 600 labels with accent marks (versus the 80 or so that were garbled in the v3 series).
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1) The v4 series introduces significant changes to admin-0 country shapes to account for
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the disputed area of Crimea, and several important admin-0 country name changes like
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Czechia renamed from Czech Republic. Admin-0 population and GDP values have also been
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updated to 2016/2017 vintage (primarily from CIA World Factbook).
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2) The v4 series introduces web map optimized min_zoom, min_label, max_label properties
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that compliment the existing scalerank property that was originally curated for print
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cartography in proper projection glory. The min_zoom property is optimized for the web
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Mercator projection we are collectively hallucinating, and the min_label and max_label
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properties are optional on some themes when the label should be displayed later than
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the feature's geometry (or should stop showing). Fixes: #200, #202.
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3) While the v3 series went full UTF-8 unicode (character encoding) language support a few
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errors were made along the way. v4 fixes bad Windows-1252 to UTF-8 conversion bugs. We
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also better document with the character encoding by adding a .cpg file to shapefile,
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and on the Natural Earth website documentation. Fixes #89, #186, 4RUN1M5S75; thanks
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Jeremy and @pnorman.
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4) We added French names for marine areas way back in v1.4.0, and v4 adds many thousand
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more for populated places in the following languages: name_en, name_de, name_es,
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name_fr, name_pt, name_ru, name_zh. The existing name, name_alt, and nameascii fields
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have been updated, and name features over 600 labels with accent marks (versus the 80
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or so that were garbled in the v3 series).
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- NOTE: Announced and demo'd at NACIS mapping conference in Sacramento, CA
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