| Re: Why doesn't IDL know the borders of Kazakhstan? [message #68770] |
Fri, 04 December 2009 13:10  |
Foldy Lajos
Messages: 268
Registered: October 2001
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On Fri, 4 Dec 2009, Ed Hyer wrote:
> Not wishing to cause an international diplomatic incident, does anyone
> have a substitute for the MAP_CONTINENTS,/COUNTRIES procedure? The
> country boundaries that IDL draws have significant gaps in Central
> Asia, that really damage the aesthetic appeal of the maps.
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> --Edward H.
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I think IDL uses the CIA world data bank, which was created in the 80s.
It is highly outdated, for example Hungary has five neighbors in this
data: Austria, Czechoslovakia, the Soviet-union, Romania and Yugoslavia.
Three of them do not exist today. (The current list is: Austria, Slovakia,
Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia.)
regards,
Lajos
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| Re: Why doesn't IDL know the borders of Kazakhstan? [message #68950 is a reply to message #68770] |
Mon, 07 December 2009 07:22  |
Kenneth P. Bowman
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In article <Pine.LNX.4.64.0912042153470.14107@lxserv0.kfki.hu>,
FOLDY Lajos <foldy@rmki.kfki.hu> wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Dec 2009, Ed Hyer wrote:
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>> Not wishing to cause an international diplomatic incident, does anyone
>> have a substitute for the MAP_CONTINENTS,/COUNTRIES procedure? The
>> country boundaries that IDL draws have significant gaps in Central
>> Asia, that really damage the aesthetic appeal of the maps.
>>
>> --Edward H.
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> I think IDL uses the CIA world data bank, which was created in the 80s.
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> It is highly outdated, for example Hungary has five neighbors in this
> data: Austria, Czechoslovakia, the Soviet-union, Romania and Yugoslavia.
> Three of them do not exist today. (The current list is: Austria, Slovakia,
> Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia.)
>
> regards,
> Lajos
I would think that some of the annual renewal fees that we pay
every year could be spend on updating resources like the political
map database, although that is not as much fun as adding new
features.
Ken Bowman
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| Re: Why doesn't IDL know the borders of Kazakhstan? [message #68994 is a reply to message #68950] |
Wed, 09 December 2009 14:40 |
Brian McNoldy
Messages: 35
Registered: July 2000
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On Dec 7, 8:22 am, "Kenneth P. Bowman" <k-bow...@null.edu> wrote:
> In article <Pine.LNX.4.64.0912042153470.14...@lxserv0.kfki.hu>,
> FOLDY Lajos <fo...@rmki.kfki.hu> wrote:
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>> On Fri, 4 Dec 2009, Ed Hyer wrote:
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>>> Not wishing to cause an international diplomatic incident, does anyone
>>> have a substitute for the MAP_CONTINENTS,/COUNTRIES procedure? The
>>> country boundaries that IDL draws have significant gaps in Central
>>> Asia, that really damage the aesthetic appeal of the maps.
>
>>> --Edward H.
>
>> I think IDL uses the CIA world data bank, which was created in the 80s.
>
>> It is highly outdated, for example Hungary has five neighbors in this
>> data: Austria, Czechoslovakia, the Soviet-union, Romania and Yugoslavia.
>> Three of them do not exist today. (The current list is: Austria, Slovakia,
>> Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia.)
>
>> regards,
>> Lajos
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> I would think that some of the annual renewal fees that we pay
> every year could be spend on updating resources like the political
> map database, although that is not as much fun as adding new
> features.
>
> Ken Bowman
I second that. There's also been a long-standing issue with Kyushu
Island in Japan. If you fill the continents, it doesn't fill that one
island, but does fill the rest of the Japanese islands. Makes the
plots look sloppy. The Mexican and Canadian states/provinces is
something I've had to hack (use external shapefiles) all these years
too. I think we could do with one less snazzy feature in the next
version and update/upgrade the maps instead!
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