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[edit] NOTE!

This file is HUGE. It cannot open in inkscape with 2GB of memory, or probably with 4GB either (however, gimp or a similar program should be able to generate a thumbnail without keeping the whole image in core). In other words, you will most likely be unable to open this on a 32-bit computer. It is only intended for use by other wiki map geeks to generate smaller SVG maps of countries and regions. Also note that, whenever possible it is better to use one of the continental maps that came from the same source, as they are more usable (won't eat all your system memory) and more precise (16 digits instead of 12):

[edit] Summary

Description

1998 World map with first level administrative units.

Source

world98.shp from the US CDC [1]

Date

2007/10/20

Author

Translated to SVG by User:Brianski

Permission
(Reusing this image)

see below


[edit] TODO

  • Find the right projection for and generate an antarctica98.svg
  • Some submaps that don't follow continental boundaries might be handy, e.g. carribean98.svg, middle_east98.svg, mediterranean98.svg, se_asia_and_australia98.svg, etc.
  • Fix blips in USA (Utah, PA, etc.), west Antarctica. change background color so these blips are more obvious and thus easier to fix.
  • Also group properly. IE: There shouldn't be >50 seperate USA groups for each state/territory, instead they should be nested together in a common USA group.

[edit] Generation Notes

perl xml2svg.pl -P12 --proj=cylindrical_equidistant:0,0.793353340291235 -x8000 world98

[edit] Licensing

Public domain This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work of the United States Federal Government under the terms of Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 105 of the US Code. See Copyright.

Note: This only applies to works of the Federal Government and not to the work of any individual U.S. state, territory, commonwealth, county, municipality, or any other subdivision.


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File history

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Date/TimeDimensionsUserComment
current05:45, 21 October 20078,000×3,859 (18.89 MB)Brianski (fix greenland bug)
04:35, 21 October 20078,000×3,859 (18.89 MB)Brianski (use 8000 width (instead of 800) so that borders aren't so huge )
04:16, 21 October 2007256×256 (18.89 MB)Brianski (Switch to equidistant cylindrical projection @37.5 degrees (aka first miller equidistant cylindrical projection - http://mathworld.wolfram.com/MillerEquidistantProjection.html))
03:25, 21 October 2007256×256 (18.89 MB)Brianski ({{Information |Description=1998 World map with first level administrative units. |Source=world98.shp from the en:CDC [http://www.cdc.gov/epiinfo/documents/shapes.doc] |Date=2007/10/20 |Author=Translated to SVG by User:Brianski }} )
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