As recently flagged in various emails, Maurizio
Pisati's article on thematic maps in the
latest Stata Journal shows that at least most
of this can be done in Stata. You must have
files containing boundary coordinates,
however.
Nick
[email protected]
Frakt, Austin
> I am a regular Stata user and for a current project I have
> data by U.S.
> state and also by U.S. county. I would like to display these
> graphically in
> a map (denoting the state or county value by color on the
> map). Is there
> any capacity for Stata to produce this type of map? I have
> done it with
> Excel but find the Excel tool to be less than satisfactory in
> a variety of
> ways. In particular, I would like to be able to control the
> scale of the
> data-color index (so that several maps so produced have the
> same scale) and
> to highlight certain regions (clusters of states or counties) by, for
> example, drawing heavy lines around them or by inserting some
> white space
> (sort of pulling apart the map). I've seen data displayed in
> this way in
> publications and find it quite nice. Does anyone have any
> suggestions for
> how to do this with Stata or with any other package they're
> familiar with?
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