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Hugh, Just a few quick suggestions: 1. You probably know that for Great Britain, Ordnance Survey Boundary-Line ( https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/business-and-government/products/boundary-line.html ) can be freely downloaded as OS Opendata, so available under very liberal licensing – the Open Government Licence https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/business-and-government/licensing/using-creating-data-with-os-products/os-opendata.html . This has historic county boundaries and present unitary authority jurisdictions, as well as a range of more detailed administrative units, including parishes, and parliamentary jurisdictions. 2. Globally, the GADM website ( https://gadm.org/index.html ) provides vector downloads of administrative areas for all country borders and some administrative areas within those borders, which are freely available for academic use and other non-commercial use. 3. Natural Earth ( https://www.naturalearthdata.com/ ) has country boundaries, as well as some regions and administrative boundaries to level 1: https://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/10m-cultural-vectors/ which are in the public domain. 4. The ESRI World Boundaries and Places layer (https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=a842e359856a4365b1ddf8cc34fde079 ) may be of interest, but has more restrictive terms of use. Chris Chris Fleet Map Curator | Collections and Research Department National Library of Scotland 159 Causewayside, Edinburgh EH9 1PH Tel: 0131 623 4670 Email: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Website: maps.nls.uk<http://maps.nls.uk/> Twitter: @natlibscotmaps<https://twitter.com/natlibscotmaps> From: A forum for issues related to map & spatial data librarianship [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Hugh Paterson Sent: 26 July 2018 03:58 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Digital vector repository Greetings, I am wondering if anyone has any good leads on openData (public domain; NOT share-alike/ODBL) for administrative jurisdictions Admin0-Admin3 at a global scale. That is, I would like something as deep as counties in the USA, I think in the UK this might be something like the shires. all the best, -- Hugh Paterson III Innovation Analyst Innovation Development & Experimentation, SIL International Web: Contact & CV<http://hughandbecky.us/Hugh-CV/> Video chat: Appear in<https://appear.in/Hugh's-cafe> Skype: misionpilot Time Zone: UTC-7/8<https://time.is/Eugene> Collaborative Note Pad: Spline<http://pad.spline.de/> ________________________________ To unsubscribe from the lis-maps list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=lis-maps&A=1 ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the lis-maps list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=lis-maps&A=1