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 SGC website: gis.stanford.edu Sign up for GIS email list: bit.ly/GISlist 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 > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > Mark A. Thomas, GIS, Map, & Federal Documents Librarian > > Subject Librarian for Economics and Geography > > 226B Bostock Library / 919-660-5853 / [log in to unmask]