mwdb3 •
The original Micro World Databank II is a public domain dataset
by Fred Popeschil and Antonio Rivera, derived from the CIA's much
larger World Databank II.
It contains about 180,000 points as compared to the WDB2's 5,000,000.
Points are ranked with a 1 to 5 detail level making this dataset suitable
for a wide range of small to medium-scale mapping; you can select the
detail level or let PAT vary it automatically as the map scale changes.
MWDB3 is an updated version with political boundaries and reservoirs
as of 2010, various other corrections and changes, topology, and a
place-name index. Distributed as plain text with a makefile
(mwdb3.mak) to convert it to PAT's binary format.
See the data page for unpacking instructions.
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