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===Other GIS data===
[http://www.naturalearthdata.com/features/ Naturalearthdata.com] (public ___domain) is a collection of GIS data within the following categories:▼
;Provinces:
* {{Cite GIS |name= Admin level 1 : State/Provinces polygons (10m-admin-1-states-provinces) |url_download=http://www.naturalearthdata.com/http//www.naturalearthdata.com/download/10m/cultural/10m-admin-1-states-provinces-shp.zip |publisher=[http://www.naturalearthdata.com/ Naturalearthdata.com] |year= 2009 |license=Public ___domain |tag= standard
|url_doc=http://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/10m-cultural-vectors/10m-admin-1-states-provinces/ |layers=major rivers lines |precision_max= |covered_area=whole earth |datum=WSG84 |projection =Geographic projection(?<!-- what that ? source : http://www.naturalearthdata.com/features/ -->) |extensions=.zip →.shp |size_compressed=14Mb |size_uncompressed=19Mb |tile_size=whole Earth |tiles_total=1 |comment = <u>For ___location maps</u>, large and local, and complex maps (political, military, history).|editor_note= }}
;Others existing
▲There are vatious other GIS layers available online. By example, [http://www.naturalearthdata.com/features/ Naturalearthdata.com] (public ___domain) is a collection of easily usable GIS data
*cultural—human and administrative (areas or borders) for countries (L-0) and smaller administrative divisions (L-1, L-2, L-3), as well as cities and urban areas
*physical—coastlines, rivers, lakes, bathymetry, and geographic lines
*raster backgrounds—Natural Earth 2 (topographic), ocean bottom, shaded relief grey
To see our selection, go to the /Gis_sources_and_palettes subpage.
=Step 3: Load a GIS file into QGis as a layer=
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