OpenEuphoria

Re: Map

• Posted by Kat <gertie at PELL.NET> Jun 11, 2001
• 342 views

On 11 Jun 2001, at 9:22, Irv Mullins wrote:


> 
> Hi:
> 
> Does anyone know where I can get a set of coordinates which I can convert to
> Eu
> sequence to draw an outline map of the US? This doesn't have to be a hi-rez
> map,
> just something that will fit into 640x480 pixels, and be recognizable. It
> would
> be nice to have the state boundaries shown as well.

Try http://tiger.census.gov ?

I remember one map service would search it's database for features (like 
negative elevations would generally be underwater) or shoreline, or such, and 
returned lat/long, elevation, placename, etc .

Luckily, i mined http://geography.state.gov before they went to ActiveX and 
Flash! You could possibly plot the hemisphere, and place a dot at every 
lat/long for the named places, the resulting blobs will will look like the 
continents. If you filter to usa names, the blob will look like the usa. Problem
with this approach is that it's about 2 gigabytes of data,, i can't email it to 
you.

Kat