Features Data

The data used along this tutorial can be downloaded from:

• http://biogeo.ucdavis.edu/data/gadm2.8/shp/DEU_adm_shp.zip
• http://biogeo.ucdavis.edu/data/diva/wat/DEU_wat.zip

Unzip the files Note the use license in https://gadm.org/data.html: The data are freely available for academic use and other non-commercial use. Redistribution, or commercial use is not allowed without prior permission.

DEU_adm_shp contains a country shapefile provided by GADM. You can instead choose any other country in https://gadm.org/download_country_v3.html

GDAM Shapefile

Shapefile attribute table

In order to exemplify spatial searches, we will also use the shapefile inland waters provided by DIVA:

Shapefile inland waters