The Vector Map Level 0 (VMAP0) provides worldwide low resolution coverage for a variety of vector-based attributes. The shapefiles available from this dataset are listed below in alphabetical order by shapefile type.
Point Files: Airports, City/Cities, Danger Points, Industry Extraction, Misc. Pop Points, Misc. Water Points, Placenames, Political Boundary Points, Railroad Yards, Storage, Transportation.
Line Files: Barriers, Bathymetry, Contours, Highways, Misc. Transportation Lines, Misc. Water Lines, Pipelines, Politcal Boundaries, Railroads, Rivers, Roads, Trails, Transportation, Utility Lines.
Polygon Files: City/Cities, Crops, Fish Hatchery/Hatcheries, Grass, Industrial Extraction, Land Ice, Ocean/Seas, Political Boundaries, Sea Ice, Swamps, Trees, Tundra.
Each file only has basic attribute data, such as name and location descriptions.
Please note that the each shapefile is only available for "whole world" coverage, and thus the files are quite large. If you are focusing your study on a smaller area (e.g. a certain continent, province etc.) then those smaller geographic areas can also be requested in shapefile format.
