Cloudmade has recently updated their international shapefiles. These are derived from the Openstreetmap project. Each country set contains seperate shapefiles for the following:

• highways (roads, footpaths)
  
• natural, (park and forest area polygons
  
• points of interest (amenity and tourist attraction points)
  
• administrative boundaries
  
• coastlines
  
• water bodies.
  

Cloudmade also provides free:

• OSM XML extracts by country
  
• Garmin Map Files (OSM.err edition)
  
• Osmosis country bounding polygon
  
• Navit maps by country
  
• GPX POI by country
  
• TomTom POI by country
  
• OSM XML feature extracts by country
  
• Adobe Illustrator format country maps
  

Download Free Cloudmade OpenStreetmap GIS Shapefile Map Layers of the World by Country.

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