{"id":506,"date":"2020-12-11T09:11:26","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T09:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.get-map.org\/?p=506"},"modified":"2020-12-11T09:11:26","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T09:11:26","slug":"natural-earth-shapefile-problems-fixed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.get-map.org\/index.php\/2020\/12\/11\/natural-earth-shapefile-problems-fixed\/","title":{"rendered":"Natural Earth shapefile problems (fixed)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"preamble\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Requests that used map styles relying on Natural Earth Data shapefiles started to fail this night, after a failed shapefile update.<\/p>\n<p>I fixed this for now by restoring these shapefiles from an older backup and excluding them from automatic updated for the time being.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Looks as if the <a href=\"http:\/\/naturalearthdata.com\/\">Natural Earth Data<\/a> site had its DNS entry expire last night, as all shapefile downloads just started to return invalid ZIP files, and the site itself only returns 404 &#8220;not found&#8221; results on its www subdomain, and what looks like a domain traders general site template on the domain name itself.<\/p>\n<p>I created a bug report on the sites Github project page as this is the only other channel to reach them that I know about &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/nvkelso\/natural-earth-vector\/issues\/444\">https:\/\/github.com\/nvkelso\/natural-earth-vector\/issues\/444<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Requests that used map styles relying on Natural Earth Data shapefiles started to fail this night, after a failed shapefile update. I fixed this for now by restoring these shapefiles from an older backup and excluding them from automatic updated for the time being.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.get-map.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.get-map.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.get-map.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.get-map.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.get-map.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.get-map.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":507,"href":"https:\/\/blog.get-map.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions\/507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.get-map.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.get-map.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.get-map.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}