inside -tmap.ado- find where it calls twoway area graph and add option cmiss(n)
option cmissing(y|n) missing values do not force gaps in area;
default is cmissing(y)
was added in Stata 10 and causes incompatibility in -tmap-
Stata 9 should be fine.
Best, Sergiy Radyakin
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 10:29 PM, June Spector <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm having difficulty with tmap -- in particular, there are many extra
> lines that seem to have been drawn between points in the map that was
> created (the map has many extra horizontal lines and looks messy).
>
> I have an administrative dataset with zip codes and number of patient
> visits for each zip code (variable for zip codes called "NAME",
> variable for frequency called "_freq," and file named "zip.dta"). I
> would like to create a state map that illustrates this. I tried the
> following:
>
> * downloaded zipcode shp files by state from
> http://www.census.gov/geo/www/cob/z52000.html (e.g. for Washington
> state, file called zt53_d00)
> set mem 100m
> shp2dta using zt53_d00, database(wadb) coordinates(wacoord) genid(id)
> use wadb
> dmerge NAME using zip
> replace _freq=0 if _freq==.
> * saved dataset as wadbmerge.dta
> tmap choropleth _freq, id(id) map(wacoord.dta) palette(Blues)
>
> ******
> I tried "drop if _merge!=3" prior to the tmap command, but then whole
> areas of the map drop out. I also tried using a different shp file
> (from https://wagda.lib.washington.edu/data/geography/us/vector/) --
> the result was improved, but there still were extra lines.
>
> ******
>
> * In case it helps, this is how I created zip.dta:
> insheet using zip.csv
> rename v1 NAME
> sort NAME
> contract NAME
> * saved as zip.dta
>
> Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
>
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