Re: st: Question about spmap

[Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>]

I have never used it but it's evident from Friedrich's work that it is
of very high quality. You could try testing with other datasets to see
if the problem is reproducible.

Nick

On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 10:39 AM, David Cuberes
<d.cuberes@sheffield.ac.uk> wrote:
> Thanks for your help, Nick.
>
> I got the shapefiles from "world_adm0.zip", a shapefile that contains
> the boundaries of all countries of the world. this is from the wep
> page "International Education Statistics (by Friedrich Huebler)". I am
> using the following syntax:
>
> spmap egg2 using "world-c.dta" if country!="Antarctica", id(id)
> fcolor(Blues) legend(symy(*2) symx(*2) size(*2)) /*
> */ title("Entrepreneurs Gender Gap", size(*1.0))  legorder(lohi)
>
> Thanks again!
>
> David
>
>
>
> On 7 August 2012 10:19, Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> wrote:
>> -spmap- is from SSC. -spmap- by and large draws maps according to the
>> data it is given. On this information I have to guess that your
>> problem lies in your data and can be fixed only by fixing the data.
>> For example, borders and coasts are different and a dataset with
>> borders only won't show coasts.
>>
>> Nick
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 9:54 AM, David Cuberes <d.cuberes@sheffield.ac.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> I am trying to construct a worldwide map using the command "spmap".
>>> Stat produces the graph as expected...except for the fact that some
>>> countries do not have a border! In particular, while the Americas and
>>> Europe are totally fine, I don't have borders for Africa or Asia! I
>>> mean, there are still borders across countries in these continents,
>>> but the sea borders are often missing...
>>>
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