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).

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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.

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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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