Continents borders KML

[jacek.francuz]

Hello,

I'm looking for a source where I could find KML file that contains
borders of all continents. I have already found KML for all the
countries in the world but can't find it for continents. I desperately
need it.

Thanks in advance,
Jacek

[mikemcc]

Hello Jacek. You might find these useful:
http://www.around-the-world.co.uk/public/regions.zip

Obviously I prepared them for my own specialist purposes, so they
maybe aren't accurate. From memory, my border between Europe and Asia
is not textbook. Also I include Australia in Asia. Many of my land
borders are quite detailed and therefore should be useful, but I have
to include quite a lot of sea in each continent. I have different
regions for the Atlantic, Indian Ocean, Antarctic and Pacific
(Oceania). Oh yes, my border between Asia and North America has to be
along the anti-meridian and I also had to split the Pacific into
Oceania East and West because I found that some MySQL GIS functions
don't (or didn't) handle the anti-meridian properly. I apologize to
any Russians who therefore feel twitchy about some of Eastern Siberia
being in the USA, but remember that you had Alaska for quite a long
time once :-) .

I hope that helps. If you develop anything better from these files,
please post a link here.

[Jason M]

Hi.

Looks like this has the geometry coordinates for each continent but
they're not labeled:
http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/download.php?Number=236961

You've probably already seen these country borders:

http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=56571#Post56571
http://www.gelib.com/world-borders.htm

--jason

[Jason M]

Note the continent KML referenced above does not actually have the full continent border outlines but only has the major border lines between the continents (e.g. Europe/Asia) so it is less useful than originally appeared to be.

Further discussion on continent outline KML can be found here:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23063852/continent-borders-kml-file