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Re: Mapping countries [message #51733 is a reply to message #51701]

Mon, 04 December 2006 12:31

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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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
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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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