Natural Earth I world cover with shaded relief, water, and drainages - version 1.3, January 2011
Description
Natural Earth is a public domain map dataset available at 1:10m, 1:50m, and 1:110 million scales (1:10m version is stored in the EEA-SDI). Featuring tightly integrated vector and raster data, with Natural Earth one can make a variety of visually pleasing, well-crafted maps with cartography or GIS software. Natural Earth was built through a collaboration of many volunteers and is supported by NACIS (North American Cartographic Information Society), and is free for use in any type of project.
This dataset is composed of satellite-derived land cover data and shaded relief presented with a light, natural palette suitable for making thematic and reference maps.