[Qgis-user] shapefile of Europe

[Stephen Sacks]

I would be grateful if someone would tell me where I can get a shapefile
for the countries of eastern and western Europe. I want just polygons of
country borders. A few major cities would be nice, but I do NOT need
streets. I'll want to be able to color each country according to my own
list of attributes. I did find an ESRI .lpk file, which I unzipped
using 7zip, but it does not seem to contain any shapefiles (two .gdb
folders containing dozens of files with extensions I don't know).
Geofabrik has individual European countries, including streets, but
that's more detail than I want. Thanks for any advice you can offer.

Steve

[Nuno de Santos Loureiro]

Try here:

http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/gisco/geodata/reference-data/administrative-units-statistical-units/nuts#nuts13

or:
http://www.gadm.org/country

Post by Stephen Sacks
I would be grateful if someone would tell me where I can get a shapefile
for the countries of eastern and western Europe. I want just polygons of
country borders. A few major cities would be nice, but I do NOT need
streets. I'll want to be able to color each country according to my own
list of attributes. I did find an ESRI .lpk file, which I unzipped
using 7zip, but it does not seem to contain any shapefiles (two .gdb
folders containing dozens of files with extensions I don't know).
Geofabrik has individual European countries, including streets, but
that's more detail than I want. Thanks for any advice you can offer.
Steve

Nuno


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[Steven De Vriendt]

Hi Stephen,

Maybe this will help you further
http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/177741/looking-for-a-free-shapefile-of-the-european-countries


All the best,

Steven

Post by Stephen Sacks
I would be grateful if someone would tell me where I can get a shapefile
for the countries of eastern and western Europe. I want just polygons of
country borders. A few major cities would be nice, but I do NOT need
streets. I'll want to be able to color each country according to my own
list of attributes. I did find an ESRI .lpk file, which I unzipped
using 7zip, but it does not seem to contain any shapefiles (two .gdb
folders containing dozens of files with extensions I don't know).
Geofabrik has individual European countries, including streets, but
that's more detail than I want. Thanks for any advice you can offer.
Steve
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On 01/02/17 17:07, "Qgis-user on behalf of Steven De Vriendt" <qgis-user-***@lists.osgeo.org on behalf of ***@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Stephen,


Maybe this will help you further
http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/177741/looking-for-a-free-shapefile-of-the-european-countries




All the best,


Steven



2017-02-01 16:28 GMT+01:00 Stephen Sacks
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I would be grateful if someone would tell me where I can get a shapefile

for the countries of eastern and western Europe. I want just polygons of
country borders. A few major cities would be nice, but I do NOT need
streets. I'll want to be able to color each country according to my own
list of attributes. I did find an ESRI .lpk file, which I unzipped
using 7zip, but it does not seem to contain any shapefiles (two .gdb
folders containing dozens of files with extensions I don't know).
Geofabrik has individual European countries, including streets, but
that's more detail than I want. Thanks for any advice you can offer.

Steve



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[Stephen Sacks]

To several people who replied to my request for help in finding a
shapefile of Europe: Thank You ! You've given me what I need.

Steve

[Lee Hachadoorian]

Stephen,

I know you already got the answer you need, but I think it is worth
pointing out that the *.gdb folders you started out with are ESRI File
Geodatabases, and that QGIS does work with those. When you open the Add
Vector Layer dialog, you have to set the Source Type to Directory, and then
set the Type dropdown to either OpenFileGDB or ESRI FileGDB.

This is covered extremely briefly in the official documentation:

http://docs.qgis.org/2.14/en/docs/user_manual/working_with_vector/supported_data.html#id3

I describe it in slightly more detail in a lab exercise I use:

https://github.com/temple-geography/census-gis/blob/master/Introduction%20to%20American%20Community%20Survey%20with%20QGIS.md

Best,
--Lee

Post by Stephen Sacks
To several people who replied to my request for help in finding a
shapefile of Europe: Thank You ! You've given me what I need.
Steve
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