Links for downloading VMap0 data, description and field notations can be found in other articles.
VMap0 data are relatively new vector dataset which represents a next version of widely known DCW dataset (more about VMap0 - rus).
Global VMap0 dataset is distributed in original VPF format and available through National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency website.
Data are packed with free 7z compressor.
All the data are in Latitude/Longitude, WGS84 coordinate system.
Global data
Global data are separated into 4 parts and available to download from this website in ESRI Shapefile format (see figure, zones boundaries, shapefile):
Data in SQL format ready for uploading into PostGIS/PostgreSQL
Data is converted using the following routine :
for f in *shp do #remove extension and substitute "-" for "_" name=$(basename $f .shp| tr "-" "_") #convert file $f from shp to sql commands shp2pgsql -d -I -s 4326 $f $name > ./sql/$name".sql" done

Data for the territory of Russia
Data for the territory of Russia in ESRI Shapefile format is available here.
Data are imported from VPF, clipped with Russia's boundart from the same dataset and merged together from the Eur, Noa and Sas parts, each layer has accompanying legend as an avl-file.
Download database for the whole country, 113 Mb
Download by subject (each archive can contain several layers):
Boundaries (2Mb)
Boundaries, delimiters removed and with attributes added (2Mb)
Countries boundaries only (8Mb)
Countries boundaries divided by zones (8Mb)
Auxillary layers (data quality, grids etc.) (2Mb)
Elevation (37Mb)
Hydro - points (<1Mb)
Hydro - lines (9Mb)
Hydro - areas (6Mb)
Industry (<1Mb)
Physical geography (<1Mb)
Populated places (<1Mb)
Populated place with Russian names and additional attributes (details in Russian )
Transport (4Mb)
Infrustructure (1Mb)
Vegetation (16Mb)
Example build from VMap0 dataset (click on the figure to see bigger one with the legend).
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