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Re: Mapping countries [message #51701]

Tue, 05 December 2006 11:54

Pete Warner
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Registered: July 2006

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There are country shapefiles included with IDL.

IDL63\resource\maps\shape\country.shp
IDL63\resource\maps\shape\cntry02.shp

The second is at a higher resolution.

On Dec 4, 3:31 pm, David Fanning <n...@dfanning.com> wrote:
> Pawan writes:
>> I am trying to fill each country with different color in IDL and right
>> now I have no clue how to do it?
>> I know the map_set and can plot border of each country or can fill
>> color to entire continents but I do not know how to fill countries with
>> different colors?You will have to use shapefiles:
>
> http://www.dfanning.com/map_tips/shapefile.html
>
> I'm sure there are free country files. I would just
> do a Google search. Then, DRAWSTATES could probably
> be immediate adapted for this purpose.
>
> Cheers,
>
> David
> --
> David Fanning, Ph.D.
> Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
> Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming:http://www.dfanning.com/
> Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")

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