I'm so excited about this, it's actually a little bit embarrassing.<p>I've got two geo-related projects that are half-finished -- both because I was dealing with poor / non-existent geographic data. I haven't had a chance to plug this new data into my code, but I can already tell it's vastly superior to any other free sources out there (OpenStreetMap may have more data, but it's not as conveniently packaged).
I know next to nothing about geographical data / cartography, but it would be nice to have these in SVG, like in this how to from Flowing Data:<p><a href="http://flowingdata.com/2009/11/12/how-to-make-a-us-county-thematic-map-using-free-tools/" rel="nofollow">http://flowingdata.com/2009/11/12/how-to-make-a-us-county-th...</a>