World map
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg32970] World map
- From: "DIAMOND Mark R." <dot at dot.dot>
- Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 01:48:54 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: The University of Western Australia
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Related, but not in answer to the recent post by Xiandong Liu on map projections. Are there any publicly available datasets like that used to describe countries in WorldMap? Where, for instance, could one find the map coordinates of the US that included the state boundaries, or even described the perimeter of Long Island in at a finer level of measurement? And continuing on this topic, just what level of measurement *is* used to describe the fractal boundaries between countries in Mathematica? ... and is the same "ruler" used to measure the border of Gibraltar as, say, Australia? (I assume that the answer to the latter question must be YES or it is a bit hard to see how bordering countries are going to fit together nicely in a combined plot. -- Mark R. Diamond