I'm currently working on a project where we need some good looking maps with country boundaries displaying the world. We do not need the details of the maps, but the colors are important. It will we used in a Silverlight application that also should be available in offline mode, meaning no server connection. Can anybody help me finding some map resource we could use?
[GIS] Looking for good looking maps with nice colors for presentations
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Best Answer
A good source of data for this type of map is Natural Earth as it provides good world wide data with a very permissive license. You don't say what your application is so it is hard to give advice on what colours you should use to display it but you may find UDig and the ColorBrewer color schemes that it provides useful.