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Re: Why doesn't IDL know the borders of Kazakhstan? [message #68770]

Fri, 04 December 2009 13:10

Foldy Lajos
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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.
>
> --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It is highly outdated, for example Hungary has five neighbors in this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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		Re: Why doesn't IDL know the borders of Kazakhstan? By: Foldy Lajos on Fri, 04 December 2009 13:10
		Re: Why doesn't IDL know the borders of Kazakhstan? By: David Fanning on Fri, 04 December 2009 13:08
		Re: Why doesn't IDL know the borders of Kazakhstan? By: MarioIncandenza on Sat, 05 December 2009 15:15
		Re: Why doesn't IDL know the borders of Kazakhstan? By: Kenneth P. Bowman on Mon, 07 December 2009 07:22
		Re: Why doesn't IDL know the borders of Kazakhstan? By: Brian McNoldy on Wed, 09 December 2009 14:40

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