I had meant to post a link to the Wikipedia maps: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Blank_maps#SVG_format
They have a "political regions" map that uses ISO 3166 codes for the SVG shape representing the country. e.g. for Europe, check out the source XML = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Location_European_nation_states.svg - Chris On 12 Mar, 13:53, VizBoy <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for your feedback! > We are in constant effort to improve our visualizations, GeoMap included. > > Regards, > VizBoy. > > On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Chris <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Firstly, having experimented a little with GeoMap it is a great tool! > > > A couple of problems I have with it: > > > 1) There is no subdivision of regions beyond the ISO 3166 countries > > 2) The actual "shapes" used for the countries are crude (especially in > > Europe and especially when zoomed in). They do not tile well and are > > over simplified. > > > Wikimedia have some blank SVG maps that could be used as a better > > basis for the GeoMap maps. The SVG shapes are tagged with ISO codes. > > > I would have a go myself but I am not sure where to start. > > > - Chris --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Visualization API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-visualization-api?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
