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# Convert on the fly Natural Earth data SHP (uncompressed) from the official repository (raw url)
ogr2ogr -f GeoJSON -t_srs EPSG:4326 -lco COORDINATE_PRECISION=6 ne_110m_admin_0_countries.geojson /vsicurl/https://github.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/raw/master/110m_cultural/ne_110m_admin_0_countries.shp
# Convert on the fly Natural Earth data zip from website url
ogr2ogr -f GeoJSON -t_srs EPSG:4326 -lco COORDINATE_PRECISION=6 ne_110m_admin_0_countries.geojson /vsizip/vsicurl/http://www.naturalearthdata.com/http//www.naturalearthdata.com/download/110m/cultural/ne_110m_admin_0_countries.zip
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