deciphering attribute labels

[big-mat]

Hi, sorry to post it here, can't really see a place to ask this: Is there metadata to decipher the attributes? e.g., gdp_md or any of the others? I have been unsuccessful in my searches of the urls listed, stackoverflow, gis forums etc. please, and thank you,

[mps9506]

There is piecemeal info out there on the various attributes, see this issue: nvkelso/natural-earth-vector#153.

It also appears there is an open pull request with the starts of a metadata table (nvkelso/natural-earth-vector#861). This gist also has some useful links from World Fact Book and others that might help track down attribute descriptions.

[PMassicotte]

That is a good question. I do not have a good answer at this time. Maybe there is something hidden in the code used to produce the data we could re-use?