I get the same error, would love to hear what the status of the site is
if anyone knows. An another good alternative for a lot of the same admin
and other background data is http://www.naturalearthdata.com/ (best for
regional/global mapping, not local). 

David Medeiros 

Geospatial Reference & Instruction Specialist
Stanford Geospatial Center
650.561.5294
@mapbliss
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On 2017-02-20 11:55, Mark Thomas wrote:

> Hi Maps-L, 
> 
> We've noticed that since last week we can't download GIS data by country from the DIVA-GIS website: http://www.diva-gis.org/gdata   We get this "403" message: 
> 
> FORBIDDEN 
> 
> You don't have permission to access /data/diva/[layer]/[country shapefile.zip] on this server.
> 
> -------------------------
> 
> _Apache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu) Server at biogeo.ucdavis.edu Port 80_ 
> 
> If we just want the administrative areas, the related GADM site still works fine: http://www.gadm.org/ 
> 
> Does anyone have news about this, or an alternative URL? 
> 
> Thanks, 
> 
> Mark 
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