[BUG]: gpd.datasets.get_path("naturalearth_lowres") is deprecated and needs to be removed.

[thomcom]

Version

23.08

On which installation method(s) does this occur?

Docker, Conda, Source, Rapids-Compose

Describe the issue

GeoPandas has deprecated the use of their internal datasets such as naturalearth_lowres. They have added warnings for this deprecation and plan to drop the datasets in early 2024

/tmp/ipykernel_261438/567044009.py:1: FutureWarning: The geopandas.dataset module is deprecated and will be removed in GeoPandas 1.0. You can get the original 'naturalearth_lowres' data from https://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/110m-cultural-vectors/.

so we should come up with a plan for replacing our use of that dataset in various internal test functions.

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