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Are there any free administrative boundaries available as shapefiles?

This is a follow up to my previous question How to highlight the area in google map on mouse hover. In my application i need to highlight the area/place/region when mouse hovers. @simo pointed me out to try kml shapefiles to generate the polygons on mouse over.

Is there a open wiki where i can download the shapefile mappings of the real world boundaries.

I have searched but couldn't find any solid data. But i find this wikimapia kml integrated google map. This allows the wikimapia places/kml shapefiles to be rendered on top of google maps. This is pretty much what i need. But instead the whole wikimapia layer like this

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i only wanted to highlight the area on mouse hover (without the explicit blue boundaries in above pic), like this

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Anybody have an idea how to do this. I am totally new to this. Any references would be really helpful.

Cheers

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One question per post, please ... I guess I know what you want because I've seen your previous post but people will probably do not understand what you want exactly. Keep it simple and clear! – simo Sep 15 '11 at 14:58
@simo, sure i always do.. but got confused what i really want because gis totally new to me... will be more careful in future – RameshVel Sep 15 '11 at 15:07

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you can find world boundaries shapefile on http://thematicmapping.org/downloads/world_borders.php

you can also have a look on this question.

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Great, that's what i want... thank you.. you saved my day.. :) – RameshVel Sep 15 '11 at 15:12
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look at www.naturalearthdata.com

there you will find uptodate shapefiles (including south-sudan) in different scales (1:10 mio, 1:50mio, 1:110mio)

Kurt

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