Admin 1 – States, Provinces. About NOTE: This theme is still in beta! Internal, first-order administrative boundaries and polygons for all but a few tiny countries. Includes name attributes (including diacritical marks), name variants, and some statistical codes (FIPS, ISO, HASC). Looking for Cyrillic or Chinese characters? Admin-0 units that lack admin-1: Antarctica, some disputed areas, tiny island nations, and principalities such as Monaco, Andorra, Liechtenstein, and San Marino. How-to Use the following selection statement to derive this theme from the 10m lakes: “ScaleRank” <=2 Then punch those selected features through the admin-1 and save result as a new feature class. Issues This is the toughest dataset to keep current. We need help making sure our statistical codes are correct if they are present and about half the dataset needs them added, still.
Just a few admin-1 units lack a name. A separate version should be created for “region” groupings of admin-1. Boundaries should perfectly match the following NEV themes: GeoCommons. Mapping for Results | The World Bank. Py Docs. Writing documentation (and keeping it up to date) is a lot of work. You can help improving it by submitting any bug you encounter, or, even better, directly patching this page on Github. Thanks! This documentation refers to the latest version of Kartograph. Work in progress. Installing Kartograph.py To install Kartograph.py you need to run Python (something like 2.7) and a couple of other frameworks.
Installing on UbuntuInstalling on Mac OS XInstalling on Windows After you installed all the pre-requisites, installing Kartograph.py should be as easy as python setup.py install Using Kartograph.py Essentially there are two different ways of using Kartograph.py: the command-line or using the Python library. Kartograph.py as a command line utility¶ The installation script should provide you the Kartograph command line interface. The basic usage is kartograph [MAP CONFIG] This will write the map to standard output. Kartograph config.json -o mymap.svg kartograph config.json --preview Adding Map Layers Sea. Download free shapefile maps. Thousands of shapefile maps can be downloaded for free from the following websites, including country shapefiles, shapefiles at province or state level, and other administrative boundaries maps. The shapefile (or ESRI shapefile) format is a geospatial vector format, and is one of the most commonly used map formats. Create interactive shapefile maps WORLD shapefile maps Natural Earth - world maps - Excellent world shapefile maps with national boundaries, first order admin (provinces, states, etc.), disputed areas, coastlines, populated areas and more at various scale levels.
GADM - Another great world shapefile map, which comes with multiple administrative layers. COUNTRY shapefile maps GADM - Recently updated shapefile maps for all countries. ALL shapefile maps Geocommons - A huge database of user submitted maps. US shapefile maps US Census Bureau - USA County and District Cartographic Boundary Files. See also: Download country shapefile maps Setting up a shapefile map in StatPlanet 1.