Natural Earth Basemap

A Rust library for generating beautiful basemaps using Natural Earth data. This project provides tools to create high-quality map visualizations with customizable styling and rendering options.

Features

• Process and render Natural Earth vector data
• Generate SVG and raster map outputs
• Customizable styling and visualization options
• Built with Rust for performance and reliability
• Uses modern graphics libraries (tiny-skia, resvg) for high-quality rendering

Prerequisites

• Rust 1.75 or later
• Cargo (Rust's package manager)

Installation

Add this to your Cargo.toml:

[dependencies]
natural-earth-basemap = "0.1.0"

Usage

use natural_earth_basemap::visualization;

// Example code will be added as the library matures

Project Structure

• src/ - Source code
  • visualization/ - Map visualization and rendering modules
  • bin/example.rs - Example usage
• data/ - Natural Earth data files

Dependencies

• clap - Command-line argument parsing
• geo - Geospatial data structures
• image - Image processing
• resvg - SVG rendering
• shapefile - Shapefile parsing
• svg - SVG generation
• tiny-skia - 2D graphics rendering

Development

To build the project:

cargo build

To run the example:

cargo run --bin example

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.

Acknowledgments

• Natural Earth for providing the base map data
• All the Rust ecosystem contributors whose work made this project possible